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Originally Posted by grannyclaret
Blimey
What was a swimming pool ?,we thought we was posh just having a bathroom.....(even if we did only live on a council estate)...  |
We didn't have a bathroom...we had an outside 'long drop'.....and a tin bath that hung on the wall outside.
The tin bath was dragged in every Friday night and we all bathed.
both bedrooms had po's........parents had a posh pot one with flowers adorning the outside.....we nippers had a white enamel one with a blue line painted around the rim.....it was someone's job to bring them down every morning and empty the contents down the long drop...then wash the Jerry out and place it upside down on the stairs steps.(the stairs at that time were only painted......too poor for carpet).
I didn't get asked to do that job...it was usually one of the boys who had to do it.
My brother Michael hated it when it was his turn.......he once threw the enamel jerry up the stairs and it bounced and came back and hit him on the head....nearly knocked him out.
Ma said that it served him right for not doing as he was told the first time of asking.