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Forum: Heritage and History 25-12-2013, 19:31
Replies: 8
Views: 538
Posted By Jethro
Re: You had a famous man hear in Accrington!!

Where did the wringer live, inside or outside!!
Forum: Heritage and History 25-12-2013, 19:14
Replies: 8
Views: 538
Posted By Jethro
Re: You had a famous man hear in Accrington!!

Hi Bob yes it was a mangle, I believe it was the rollers that were different they were made out of wood, unusual considering he was a blacksmith, also I think in America it was called a ringer.
Forum: Heritage and History 25-12-2013, 18:47
Replies: 8
Views: 538
Posted By Jethro
Talking You had a famous man hear in Accrington!!

Hi,
In 1802 a blacksmith from Accrington had an idea!!. He made his idea and his wife used it in the family home ( they had 6 kids) it became quite popular and other neighbours would cue outside to...
Forum: Questions and Answers 28-08-2013, 18:39
Replies: 12
Views: 938
Posted By Jethro
Price of coal & nutty slack

Hi,
can anybody tell me the price of coal or nutty slack, in the nineteen twenty s.
I know it was a long time ago, so if a mans wage was £2 week and he had to feed and cloth a family of 6...
Forum: Questions and Answers 10-02-2013, 13:26
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

Hi Dotti can you remember bath nights !!! Who went in first adults or children and did they use the cloths horse as a privacy screen. I've head the saying ( don't throw the baby out in the bath...
Forum: Questions and Answers 30-01-2013, 20:23
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

Thank you for sharing that lovely story with us, didn't no about the toffee.
Forum: Questions and Answers 30-01-2013, 13:44
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

Hi Dotti, very interesting, can you think back to when your mother was cooking on the ( black lead fireside range) did she cook vegetables in a pan on the open fire or did she put the pan on the hot...
Forum: Questions and Answers 27-01-2013, 12:20
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

Can any body tell me what soap they would have used in the tin bath, and also would they use it as a block or would they have grated it with a cheese like grater !!!!!!.

And when they were washing...
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-01-2013, 20:31
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

It was the coal and Iron Age of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britton, there would have been soot in the air pretty much all the time.
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-01-2013, 19:40
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

That's interesting did you ever taste any food cooked on the range. And if so what was it like!!!.
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-01-2013, 18:06
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

I'm giving a talk to primary school kids in March key stage 1&2 aged 6 to 9 about life as a child in the Victorian times and how life centred around the ( black lead fireside range) I do have an...
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-01-2013, 17:41
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

Thanks Margaret that's exactly what I was hoping for, have you ever heard of Hardin it was a Victorian cloth I think and used as a oven cloth. None of my customers have heard of it.
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-01-2013, 16:59
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Re: Black lead fireside range (please help)

Hi Susie, many thanks yes I have seen the short film on YouTube, the Victorian farm link is interesting. As a chimney sweep I still get to sweep these every now and then, one of my customers who is...
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-01-2013, 15:22
Replies: 91
Views: 3,236
Posted By Jethro
Black lead fireside range (please help)

Hi this is my first post,
Does any body remember the old (black lead fireside range) the one with an oven, water boiler and open fire, they wear still in use up to about the 1950s.
I no George...
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