[Margaret Pilkington]

Back in those glory days(pre 1960's)....Friday night was head inspection......we all had our hair combed through with a fine comb while standing on the newspaper......this was when the News of the World was a broadsheet......my mother used to make sure the writing was upside down so that i couldn't read the 'juicy' bits.
Once head inspection was over we used to be bathed.....tin bath in front of fire....and hair was washed with Derbac soap. I never had 'lodgers' as my Ma called them....she put it down to the Derbac soap.