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Watching the Telly this morning it was saying that temps got down to -10 last night around here, which started me thinking about when I was a kid. In the good old days there was very few houses with central heating, no double glazing, baths or inside toilets, no wall to wall carpets, just a little square next to the bed if you were lucky, how the hell did we survive. It was tatas every morning, windows were covered with Jack Frost, then it was down the yard to the outside bog, tin bath in front of the fire and if you were cold in bed it was Dads old trench coat thrown over your bed. Schools were never shut because it was to cold, it was a matter of keep your coats on this morning its a bit parky in her today. Oh how we loved those good old days:D
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When I was a newly wed in 1961, the terraced house I lived in was heated by one open fire in the living room. Loft insulation non existant - lino on bedroom floor.
When hubby was on nights I wore a coat, socks and gloves to bed and I could see my breath vapour in the air in the bedroom. It never ocurred to me that it would be better to sleep on the sofa |
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first house i ever bought had no bathroom
and a long drop toilet t was just my luck to get caught walking passed the bridge pub in accrington with a tin bath on my back,you try and better yourself needless to say all my mates laughed for months still it beat try to climb in the dolly tub :hehetable |
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As a lad I remember not being able to see through my bedroom window due to teh ice..... on the inside!
Thing is even now I find bedrooms too hot, I like to keep a window open if at all possible and even throw the covers off in winter but Julie is teh opposite and needs to be roasting hot or she winges :D |
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It had a built on kitchen and in winter the taps would be frozen. We could see our breath in the bedroom too. This is in 1998 so only ten years ago. :eek: |
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When I moved into my present house four years ago it didn't have central heating.
Since there are neighbours on either side, and the idea of making up real fires sounded romantic, I thought I'd be fine. I moved in in July. I lasted until December, and then made a frantic call to the plumber, and was thankfully sorted with full central heating by Christmas. It must be because I'm all skin and bone that I feel the cold so much. That or living in balmy London for seventeen years had sent me soft.:D |
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When my mum and dad had an indoor loo installed, my gran made a special visit to view and experience the novelty.
Her comment was - "Useless! - you splash your bum" |
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Mt grandad would not use the indoor toilet as he said it was disgusting to poo in the house. :D |
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the outside loo was a bit of a bummer ;)
i remember not being able to have a loan for a triumph dolomite because we had no inside loo |
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Never Had a outside Loo...thankgod!!
But remember when i was a kid scraping the ice of the windows...from the inside:eek: Having an hot water bottle in me bed with a sleeping bag and about 4 layers of covers, lol |
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In the freezing 40s we had some awfully cold Winters. 1947 was a b*gger but my best memories of it are having loads of fun in the snow. I can't ever remember feeling cold but I suppose we were just used to it.
Hot water bottles were the norm, then, and we had the stone ones with a screw-in stopper on the side. I was about 9 years old when I got up for school one morning and my hot water bottle slid off the end of my bed and on to my bare foot. The foot swelled up like a pudding and I couldn't get a shoe on so - yay! - a day off school. :D I was about 15 - so 1958 - when my dad, unaided, installed central heating in our house. It consisted of heavy iron radiators in every room, pipe-fed by water heated by his coke-burning boiler - situated in a glass outhouse he had built at the back of the kitchen. It did keep the house warm but it gurgled and belched all the time and every night, when he went to "riddle his clinkers", you cloud hear the sound of his riddling all through the pipes. :) |
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The long drop was something else weren't they beechy, a bit of a ****** if you came home legless and dropped your false teeth down the hole"
My mate did just this and his Mum tied a sieve to a broom handle and fished them out!!!!!! |
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We had an outside loo which consisted of a purpose built box to encase a large tub which had to be emptied every seven days...and guess who had the job? The box and tub were at least covered with a brick built shed? Paper was cut in equal squares from the local rag hung on a string. To use a pun 'Good old days, my arse' |
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Those were the days when 8 years olds were sent to the local ironmongers with a big Stantons glass pop bottle to be filled with parafin for the lamp used to stop the pipes in the outside lavvy from freezing up . Guess these days the parents would be 'had-up' for child abuse . :D
Also amazing how clean the womenfolk kept the wood tippler seats scrubbed spotless , womenfolk these days don't know there born . ;) :D |
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Remember in the sixties when I was working for a small joiners for a while, he did full house renovations, including new windows and bathroom, it also entailed digging out the old long drop toilet too, I didn't work there to long:rolleyes:
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Just been thinking, we don't get snow falls like we did in the fifties and sixties, can remember how the snow always used to drift down our street and always where the gutter was, it used to say there for weeks was just like a wall of snow, think the biggest drift was about five feet high, great for us kids but not for our parents;)
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In the winter of 1947 I remember standing at the door of our 'glass place' (the glass roofed area between our and next door's outkitchen), watching my dad digging a trench in the 5ft deep snow in the backyard, so that we could get to our long drop.
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Actually, reading your memories Jaysay, feel I must have been privileged, do not particularly have memories as you have. Although neighbours had long drops, we had a flush toilet, and the paraffin lamp was always in situ during an icy spell. Bathroom was installed early in my life, as cannot just remember what it was like before we had one, although certainly remember the jerry under the bed ... LOL. Remember my dad clearing a path out to the toilet during snow periods. Always came down in the morning to a roaring fire and cooked breakfast. Mum worked until my Gran, who lived with us, died when I was 12. She was a weaver, my dad a clothlooker. Must have got up very early to ensure we were OK when getting up ... although Gran helped of course. Was never put to bed without my winceyette nightdress, a hot water bottle and fresh sheets with two utility natural coloured blankets plus a feather quilt. Radiator type heater in bedroom too. We had a small asbestos kitchen extension in our 2 up/2 down, but don't remember it being cold, what with extra heater and oven being in there. Woolies were always hand knitted and 'wool' of course .. much warmer than these synthetic fibres. No, not well off at all but blessed with organised parents I guess. I can truthfully say were 'Good Old Days'. |
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When Anne and me got married in 1972 the first house we bought in Preston was down near the Docks cost £1,275 2 up 2 down outside loo
after living there a few years there was a compulsory purchase order on the house they where clearing the area we got £1,285 after paying the mortgage off we ended up with £110 we used to put hurricane lamps in the loo to keep it from freezing the pipes:D |
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Glad you put the E in your signatur it was annoying me:D
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in the early 50s we lived in the Prefabs on Barden Road
all good times brought up with the best. me Mam thought it was a good idea to keep the bed warm by putting a small round parrafin heater of the green house type under the bed worked a treat until our bed set on fire,good old days we had to trek down church pushing a pram, my brothers i presume, get it filled up at a local shop with coal brickets,and push it all the way back but at least we kept warm:) |
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Used to live on Royds Street as a lad, and we had an old long drop (tipler) toilet then, we once had to lower a bucket down it to rescue our cat, which had fallen down there.
My Gran and Grandad also had a long drop at their house in Kay Street in Ossy. My Gran told me that one night after a "session" in the Tinker and Budget pub, my Grandad used the toilet, when he got back in the house they were having a laugh and she slapped him on the back....only to discover he had crapped on his braces!!!...urggh! Best Regards - Taggy |
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Best Regards - Taggy |
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