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Those things you saw every day when you was a nipper but not sure what it was called due to less grey matter! What was the name of that cloth/lace thing on the back of Dads chair to stop the grease stain from his barnet?? :confused:

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Antimacasser - not sure of right spelling.
Macasser was a type of hair oil - the 'anti' bit related to keeping it off the upholstery

PS just had a quick google - spelling almost right
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/antimacassar

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A thingimijig wasn't it.

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not sure of the name , but my Grandma was allways crocheting them from big bobbins of factory cotton , never knew where she had accquired them :eek:

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No, that was something else!

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Before we set off on tour with a Batty Holt's coach we had to change the antimacassa on the top of the seats if they were greasy or dirty from the last customer head.

If I remember correctly ours were white with BH embroidered in them.
Coach tours were a bit posh in those days (1965 ish) and before you start we didn't have a horse pulling it. It was a long way to Lake Garda.

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Yes, I remember then too, and you are spot on Margaret, with why they were called AntiMaccassars.
We just called them Chair back covers and my grandma used to crochet her chair back covers.......grandad used to fall asleep in the chair and then walk around with his bald head the same pattern as the covers.......he didn't need the back of his chair protecting...he had no hair(to speak of).......Uncle Harry(his son) had thick dark wavy hair which he would slick down with Brilliantine......a colourless oily liquid that made his hair shine........he was in the RAF........an original Brylcreem boy(except it was Brilliantine).

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My Aunty Macassar had some lovely ones.

:D

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OK what about those little pills Mum used to give us, Lung Healers?? Anyone remember those, what did they do and what were they??? :confused::confused::confused:

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Never heard of them, but "Healed yer Lungs" would be a rough guess.:D

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Yes, Fennings little Lung healers......Dr Doans backache pills and I think he was the originator of Bile Beans too(but I am happy to be corrected).

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Them are the ones Margaret, Used to take um all the time when I was young;) sadly they didn't work:D

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i remember Mothers Little Helpers..similar ?

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No Beechy, that was something entirely different....you needed a script for those......Valium was their other name.

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Oh those little blue pills Margaret:hesoff:

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There were little yellow ones as well John......not that I ever took any.......I doled them out though.

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see you aint got "Aftermath" L.P. by the stones mate?:Dhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfGYSHy1jQs

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Your talking about Viagra John!!!! :D:D:D

:tongueout

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Have a very funny story about little yellow pills, but not fer public consumption margaret, remind me if yeh run into us.:D;)

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Think the the colour was determined by the strength Margaret, were blue 5mg or 10mg. can't remember:confused:

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Viagra heth:( even they are a lost cause where I'm concerned:s_cry::s_cry::s_cry::D:D:D

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I think 2mg were white and 5 mg were yellow but I may be wrong.:confused:

Could with a couple myself.:o:D:D

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Well with that I can only think that Blue were 10mg Beni, which only confirms that at the time I was taking them I was a bigger basket case than I thought:D:D

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Yes, My recollection was the 5mg ones were yellow, but then it all went pear shaped when they started prescribing the generics.......they could be any colour shape or size.......and this would confuse those taking them....who were already confused to start with :)

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And what about 'Andrew's Liver salts' Used to love the way they 'fizzed' and I remember drinking quite a lot one day and then having to spend a few days very near to the bathroom!!. Is it true they were a sort of hangover cure?

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Never cured n hangover o mine sue.:D

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They were disgusting and never cured a hangover just made you throw up!!! :D

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Na a good swift hair of the dog was the only answer:D

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Remember this, it was drunk like pop when Mum and Dad were out!!

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Yes, but my recollection of Andrews, was you had to drink it all down while it was fizzing....it didn't taste so bad while the fizz was on it, but if the fizz went, it was 'orrible.

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Yes, I remember them well. Along with Cephos Powders, Zambuk and Goose-grease. Lung Healers looked like little grains of rice.

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My Aunty Maud had some lovely ones as well, must have been 40DD.

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Whoa steady on down boy:D:D

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One ear fur thee Jay, un yon mon i Canada.
Gozzled.

Retlaw

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Oh Retlaw.....I know that one, but I won't spoil it for the others.

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Is it the same as grotched ? :)

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yes Katex, it is....both are only words, but they are horrible words.

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Trust you Kate, just as I was eating a nice juicy donut:D

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The difference between the two is I think one is green:D:D:D

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There you go, and you all thought I weren't educated like .. :D
Slightly onomatopeoic isn't it.

Really ... learn something everyday ... which one is green and what colour is the other ? :confused:

Reverting back to the original question re. chair covers ... here is a piccie of my brother and myself many years ago ... please note the furnishing. :D

Attachment 17778

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Which ones you Kate:hidewall::hidewall::hidewall::hidewall::hidew all::D

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As to which is which Gozzle is green crotch is grey, and please don't question me on how I know, I am flaming expert in it, believe me:D

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Yes John.......we used to say a little(nasty) rhyme.......
'Green gozzle pudding and hot snot pie,
All mixed up with a dead dogs eye,
Slap it on a butty,
Slap it on thick.
Wash it all down with a bucket of sick'...eeeewww. Hope you have had your tea:)

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Ya just, and it was so good I've brought it up to have another look at it:s_sick: :D

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You are alright then for the bucket of sick....just need some hot snot pie and the green gozzle pudding!

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Nouvelle cuisine at its best Margaret:D

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Aye an sum on um ur as big uz oysters.

Retlaw

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Ahh (sighs) ...childhood memories, eh ? :rofl38:Roll over Milton.

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And that is one reason I have never been able to eat an oyster .. apart from the fact they are alive when eaten.

This is thread wandering at its best... :alright:

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So what your saying Kate is ya never needed an aphrodisiac:rolleyes:

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Sorry jaysay. I was exaggerating a bit anyway.

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Yes........I guess you could say that is a 'man' thing.......exaggerating a bit(sigh)

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Nope, eat strawberries instead .... :D

Puzzles how we are going to get this thread back to crocheted chair covers and not relegated to the Over 18's.

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Himself has strawberries every night after his tea....they don't seem to do him much good.
Maybe it's the big dollop of ice cream that renders them ineffective...eh?

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wonder how many are cautening besides me, dirty sods all of you :D :D

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Thall be fur Powfagged wen thas finished
Retlaw.

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Ya but just depends where and when ya eat um and how:D

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Ya I usually am misen Retlaw:D

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Stop, I'm just about to bring my Lung Healers up!!!!!!!

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Epsom salts
Back in the days when doctors weren't just drug dispensers, I was directed by my doc to take massive doses of Epsom salts in order to stop production of breast milk. The effect of producing liquid diarrheoa for a day caused my breast milk to dry up,(and enabled my return to work)

There was no adverse effect from this temporary self induced dehydration.
No doubt women are prescribed expensive drugs nowadays to get the same effect.

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Liberty Bodices, anyone rememember them, anyone still wear them, can you still buy them (no not for me Jaysay) I think when I was very young, 6 or 7, I had to wear one??? Was this because Mum had nothing else clean??? :o:confused:

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Yes, I wore a liberty bodice......with rubber buttons....used to bite bits off the rubber buttons, so my mum replaced them with metal buttons covered in cotton.

I don't wear them now, and I can't say I have seen them advertised anywhere.

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I ain't seen um for years Margaret, Don't think they would go well with savile row suit :D

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Back in the old days the houses were cold and draughty........bedrooms were akin to fridges. I know that we made ice lollies on the window ledge inside our back bedroom........and although it was as cold as charity, we ate them. Well it's a poor belly that can't warm an ice lolly.
We wore more skins than an onion.......I wore a vest,then a libery bodice and then an underslip then my school shirt, skirt and finally a school jumper or cardigan, which back then was wool..
We wore nearly as many clothes to go to bed in.......Ma used to warm the bed with a couple of bricks which were kept in the bottom of the kitchen range.
And they were the good old days!

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I remember wearing a vest then a liberty bodice which my mum had sewn a little pocket into. Because I had asthma a camphor square was put inside the pocket to help me breathe. Everyone at school would shout "Who stinks of Vicks" School days were not my happiest times!!

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That just reminds me of a sign I have over my computer Margaret

The Golden Years

The golden years have come at last
I cannot see, I cannot pee
I cannot chew, I cannot screw
My memory shrinks, my hearing stinks
No sense of smell, I look like hell
My body's drooping, got trouble pooping.
The golden years have come at last......
The Golden years can kiss my ass.:D

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So funny, so true! It all starts with that funny sound you make as you get out of the chair!

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I thought that was the leather creaking.........:)

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I like the couple of bricks, Margaret, my mum used to use a stone sasparilla (can't remember how to spell it!) bottle from.. was it 'Stanton's' on Union Rd (after New Lane). It was still warm in the morning when we got up

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Yes we had one of those too, but that usually ended up in Ma and Pa's bed....for precisely the reason you stated......it stayed warm for a long time.
Four of us used to sleep in a double bed...two at the top, and two at the bottom(hope you are reading this Mancie - not a typical Tory upbringing is it?)......and we used to have the bed piled up with blankets, candlewick covers(which, I can now admit, I used to pick the candlewick out of) and if it was really cold......Dads greatcoat went on the bed too.
No carpets on the floor......cold, cold lino, with a couple of 'rag rugs' down.
But hey, I am here to remember it.....so must be made of stern stuff.

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Jaysay used to advertise 'em:D

http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/...20of%20London&

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He used to come to work with his cowboy chaps on but I must be honest I never saw his Liberty Bodice????

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Where they ones where your arse hangs out?:D:D:D

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Why do you want one Lol . A set of the Trousers i mean ?

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Its ok i have got mine on now:D:D:D

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No, they were known as 'coms'......combinations.
They were a combination of vest and long johns and from what I remember they were only worn by the older folk(Unisex too,before unisex was thought of)......liberty bodices were for children

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Beginning to worry about you think your Mancies Alter ego

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Ooh, the cheeks of it ! :D

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Viagra:confused:

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well, no they weren't around back then...we were talking Daizepam...or as it was better known back then...Valium

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The title of the thread my give you a clue why its not Viagra;)

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That should read diazepam....... I have a new wireless keyboard and I'm sure it jiggles the letters around when I'm not looking.:p

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Did you get your keyboard from the same place that John purchased his Marg?! :eek:

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I don't know Heth, but I never used to make as many typos as I have since I got this new keyboard....so I'm not taking all the blame! :)

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Its ok keep going like John we will let you know when you are as bad as him and then you can get a new keyboard!!! ;):D:eek:

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I'm seriously thinking of going back to my old one........I would just have to renew some of the letters, which have gone very faint........I thought that going wirelss would be an improvement! :)

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I loathe using the keyboard. Having 4 semi-numb fingers is a real nuisance.
Also I need to support my head with my left hand to ease my arthritic neck.

Today I have discovered the Microsoft On-Screen keyboard, so can type using mouse only - wonderful!.

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Um thats a good one Margaret, even I haven't used that one yet, but watch this space:D:D:D

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John.....are you casting aspersions on the veracity of my statement???????;):D

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:hidewall::hidewall::D:D:D

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Just be thankful that you have a wall between thee and me :D

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Back to the thread. What was that stick (honest) thing my Dad used on his face when he cut himself shaving?? Seemed to stop the bleeding?? :confused::confused::confused:

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Antihemorrhagic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Styptic stick/pencil

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It was a styptic pencil....you can still buy them.

No..............I don't know everything,:) I have just lived a long time and have a good memory.

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ooooh Margaret, just one minute behind you!

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Have one in the bathroom myself Margaret

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You know when you have a "hang-nail" - a loose bit of skin at the side of a finger nail, my aunt used to call it a "stepmother jag". Anyone else heard that? Perhaps it was an old Rishtonian saying.

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nope...that's what we call them too...OK, I'm only down the road in Clayton.......but I'm sure I have heard other people use that phrase for them.

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Na mi old grannie used to say that and she were born and bred in Ossy:hothothot

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My mum came from Atherton and my dad Blackburn and they both said Step mother jag, as I do now.