Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 962018)

You mean like pile cream...that's an application:)

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 961884)

you could argue that without the internet you may not have started your research in the first place, or kept it local

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 961966)

Yes, I remember all those things....the long drop, the binoil, the coaloil......the tin bath and filling the copper on Friday night for bath night. reading bits of the newspaper before using it..........!
They were happy days, even if we didn't have much...life was much less complicated, people seemed gentler...more ready to help out if you needed a hand.

I get where you are coming from........technology has influenced so many things, things we could never have dreamed of...but whether life is truly better because of them....well, some things are I suppose. But I wouldn't swap my childhood for the ones that the children of today have.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 962042)

or having to take a shovel accross the yard clearing snow before I can perform. (sorry to put that vision in your head).

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 961967)

Well from my point of view dave,they were very happy days, family never had much, but society in general was much better than now.I.M.H.O.;)

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 962044)

You were singing in the backyard ??? :D

Originally Posted by Retlaw (Post 962030)

Bill Turner & I had all ready spent several weeks down at the Public Record Office, long before things started to become available on the internet.
Life has just got easier this past few years.
Fortunately I have a daughter living in the area so that kept costs down.
Keeping things to local research, would have been ridiculous, it doesn't work that way.

Retlaw

Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 961950)

For those of us with family spread all over the globe, internet is a godsend. You can keep in touch regularly and it doesn't cost too much. You can share almost anything with friends and family on Facebook these days and have video telephone links free.

I remember back in the early 70's, when my Aunt and family emigrated to Canada, phone calls were kept for special occasions -Xmas mainly and you had to book the call. We used to tape and send messages on an early tape recorder - hope the tapes have been destroyed as there were some very embarassing things they made me do such as sing songs and play my clarinet (which I loathed)!

I do hate mobile phones though as they make people very ignorant -they walk around in their own little bubble talking on them anywhere and everywhere. They also use them while driving which is dangerous. You have absolutely no privacy if you carry a mobile phone - they can pick up wherever you've been so you can't get away with anything anymore. No-one ever rings me on mine which is another reason I don't like them;) :D

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 962049)

it is Ok Dave.....been there done that.
As for the cold bottom of the tin bath....Ma used to empty a kettle of boiling water into the bath first....the the ladin tin was used to fill it up with water.
The maiden was put around the bath to afford some privacy and also keep the draught off you while you were naked.
Being a girl, I was always allowed to bathe first...with one of the babies....then the lads came in order of muckiness...muckiest was last.
I thought it was lovely sitting in the bath in front of the fire...then cocoa afterwards....and listening to the radio by the light of the fire.
Simple pleasures...we didn't ask for much.

Originally Posted by davemac (Post 962058)

sounds very similar to our bathing routine, but it was usually sunday night, then we watched Sunday night at the London paladium, on a very small black and white telly with a large oil filled magnifier in front of the screen

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington (Post 962049)

it is Ok Dave.....been there done that.
As for the cold bottom of the tin bath....Ma used to empty a kettle of boiling water into the bath first....the the ladin tin was used to fill it up with water.
The maiden was put around the bath to afford some privacy and also keep the draught off you while you were naked.
Being a girl, I was always allowed to bathe first...with one of the babies....then the lads came in order of muckiness...muckiest was last.
I thought it was lovely sitting in the bath in front of the fire...then cocoa afterwards....and listening to the radio by the light of the fire.
Simple pleasures...we didn't ask for much.