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Actually saw one of these on someone's neck t'other week, was fascinated.
Somethings you do not miss, thank goodness for showers and the Bathroom grant.
Remember the miners who looked as though they had full black eyeliner ?
Thank you fellas for cleaning up your act.

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I use to have one of those..............:D

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Dirty B ... you only a youngster, so no excuse !! ... would have had a bathroom at least when you were a kid.
Joking apart though, was trying to say how bodily cleanliness has changed for the better, very rarely smell sweat on anyone and that piece of nostalgia can go in the trash can. I vote the introduction of the shower to be one of the tops in my lifetime.

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When I was a young fella (early teens). Our family didn’t own a shower, only a bath and because there were five of us it was to much bother for us all to bath every day so Fridays became bath nights. I ended up during the week only washing my hands, arms and face and more often than not my neck was included in the wash also, even after work. It isn’t any wonder why I was 21 before I popped mi cheery, prier to that I must have stunk.
These days I’m pleased to say I shower every day and it’s not my neck that ends up with the tide marks.

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Your not getting close enought to the bu**ers.....lol. Just to make issue, I grew up with a "Tin" bath in front of the fire once a week, in winter it was bathing in the stone sink after the pot had been washed. we didn't have an inside bath or bog until 67/68........

I do know what you mean though.......:) :).

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It was the same for us. I was 7 when we moved to a house with a bathroom. The water was either scalding or freezing.

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i was early teens before we had a bathroom. remember with amusement tide marks lol and spuds in the ears.pmsl

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Hwy, just had me tea, late I know.
Was meant to be serious nostalgia this ... you lot crazy, but like ya;

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Talking about Nostalgia in conjunction with cleanliness and the public health, what about the green trails up the sleeve? Dried bogies and that little act parturition from one or other nostril resulting in a luminous discharge that would hang on with grim determination to the upper lip…………:D

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i was sat on the bus behind a woman... you could have fried an egg on her hair it was so greasey... yuk

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Now then, Greasey smelly hair, thats something I can't stand to be near...

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i tooo lived in the tin bath era..... but then one of my mums friends started to let me use the indoor bathroom ...... it was great ....... but much prefare a shower now..........how times do change.

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You had a tin bath??? Blimey you must have been rich, we had to bathe in a puddle in the back yard !!!

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I can't be doing with showers, I don't like the water falling down on me, I can't breathe properally, and I feel like I'm being suffocated. Give me a bath and my own mucky water to sit in any day! Nice.

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Mucky pup, you need one of those little hand showers just to wash the grime away.

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Remember telling kids that when i was younger we'd never had a shower and they just couldn't believe it. Then i told them that when we did get a shower in the late 70s we had to wash with soap, never had shower gel. They couldn't believe it. Carbolic soap, wonder what has happened to that and if you can still buy it.

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Just for you Sara. Looks a lot nicer than it use to in our day.............;)

http://www.carbolicsoap.com/

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Thanks Doug, sure i got a smell of carbolic when i looked on that site Doug. Noticed coal tar soap as well, forgot all about that.

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o strewth we used to have the red carbolic block ....then we started buying cammay ,,,,,,,can anyone remember that one .

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Me! Me! and fairy Green soap in a box of two, big green blocks, or was that just that I had little hands. I remember Cammay too......

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When we went on to posh soap.
My Nanna used to use cammay and Mum used to use Lifebouy.
If we didn't have a propper wash when we were kids.
Then we would be threatned with the vim nt scrubbing brush.

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During a stint in Blackpool my nan made me have a bath with a box of Tide, I was still picking bits of Bluey-white grains out of my bits and bobs long after the rash had disappeared............I kid you not.

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we used to have wrights coal tar soap as well..then we went onto pears transparent soap... i dont know if we were mean but when the pears soap got to its last legs it was slotted into a new block so that every last bit was used ,
i still do that now.old habbits die hard

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Specially with bottle of wine and the candles ...brilll eh ?

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? you ok Kate, your not missing something, at all, maybe......:)

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Yeh, just missing how ya' put up the quote you are replying to .. how ya' do that please ? will avoid any misunderstanding in the future tee hee. Was replying to the Sarah's #15 .. just too many in between like.

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You’ll love this, Just click on Quote at the bottom right hand corner; it will show the previous message in the dialogue box, just reply as normal under it.

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What a mind of information you are Doug .. ta .... x for you ... sleep well. :)

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Madam, you are always very welcome, Sleep tight.

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Funny how you can smell these soaps when they are mentioned.
Thought I was the Cat's whiskers when me mum bought bar of pink Camay.
Do you remember the jingle (any crotchet icons on here by the way)
'You'll be a little lovelier each day, with beautiful pink Camay' la, la.
Lovely smell, however, the perfume content used to bring me out in dry patches . so that bit the dust.

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Do you mean red carbolic or cammy? If cammy, sure you can still buy it.

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No you're not been mean. I always fill the washing up bottle with water when it's all gone, gets another couple of days out of it, and i don't consider myself as mean. Others might though.

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That's sad, Doug, having said that since joining this site last week am now looking more at my town.

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Thank you Kate, I don't really need to be reminded of that fact. :p You'll end up the same, just wait and see..............:)

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I do that with my washing up liquid Sarah.
Waist not want for not an all that.

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We had a bath in our house and my mum used to bath all three of us together on Sunday evening. My dad wouldn't let us waste water by having separate baths. I remember Camay soap and we also used Pears sometimes and like GC we wasted none of it. If we had no soap or shampoo my mum used to wash us with washing up liquid..

My mate always had a tide mark at the back of her neck and her mum used to scrub it with a toothbrush over the kitchen sink. She wouldn't have minded but she was 14 by then.

Despite having bathrooms and showers now, there is still no shortage of dirty, smelly people around. You only need to visit Netto to spot them. Over the years I have had several women at my clinics who are strangers to soap and water. It is unpleasant to have to examine dirty people and I did resort to actually asking them if they had had a wash recently.....Yuk!!!:D

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Got to agree with u Katex. lol

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EEH ECK - a whole drainpipe all to yourself? You had it easy lad. When we lived int' coal ole undert' street, we never had owt like that. We had to run around when it rained and catch as many drops as we could - and nowt posh like soap, it were a bit of donkey stone to rub thisen down wi.

Perhaps we could find a handy drainpipe for Pixie's problem?

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Only just found this old thread and had to add my twopennarth
My mum bought Imperial Leather - it was so strongly scented that it brought me out in lumps - I still bear the scars

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Never use anything else Margaret, well for everyday use that is.

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Me too JavaScript.

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Thats why I smell so sweet Alan:rolleyes::D