Front Parlour
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It was Chenille......they used to have door curtains made of similar stuff too...to keep the draughts down in winter.
We must have been poor,i remember newspaper on the kitchen table/mangle....but the front room table was polished with bees wax
Yes, we had newspaper during the week but a cloth on Sunday. I once got a thick ear off my dad for trying to read the News of the World (it was upside down...so I was struggling) while having my tea.
The newspaper was also re-cycled into toilet paper...OK, I know this has nothing to do with front rooms.
The newspaper was also re-cycled into toilet paper...OK, I know this has nothing to do with front rooms.
Good old days, I used to get the job of tearing the newspaper into squares and threading them onto a piece of string with the biggest needle you ever saw for hanging on the back of the door of the outdoor lav, and when the paper was used the string had to be untied and the process started again, my Gran never wasted anything we should be millionaires by now but we aren't.
oh i am glad that we were not the only ones....
did anyone else have an army coat on the bed because it was so,oo cold....
did anyone else have an army coat on the bed because it was so,oo cold....
grannyclaret said:
What !! Gawd G-C, that's extreme, but had wool blankets with the utility logo ...
summat like two pacman smilies, which doesn't translate on here for some reason, (turns into a sticking out tongue smiley.) Think my brother still got them somewhere.
I had mi Dad's great coat on mi bed. Your right Mez it was nice n warm.
My nana had a big polished table it had a peace of felt underneath and newspaper on top unless it was a special occasion then she would put a white table cloth on it.
On special occasions out would come the china tea service, silver taypot n glass fruit bowls.
dose any body remember getting those plastic dishes free from daz soap powder that used to get full of water inside when they were washed.
They gave away plastic flowers has well.
My nana had a big polished table it had a peace of felt underneath and newspaper on top unless it was a special occasion then she would put a white table cloth on it.
On special occasions out would come the china tea service, silver taypot n glass fruit bowls.
dose any body remember getting those plastic dishes free from daz soap powder that used to get full of water inside when they were washed.
They gave away plastic flowers has well.
grannyclaret said:
boddies? the cream of manchester.
oh yes thats the best sort of boddies ,with a touch of lime..lol
I remember those blankets Katex...they were grey and very rough...but warm..
Tha label on the blankets was a utility mark...lots of things had them...wardrobes chests of drawers and it was to show that it was of reasonable quality, but not luxury standards...these items were prevalent after the war when resources were scarce.
I remember having Dad's army coat on the bed......four of us slept in a double bed in the back bedroom...two at the top and two at the bottom.
There were always squabbles about who had the most of the blankets and one harsh winter Ma put the greatcoat on the bed. She had a very snooty friend in our kitchen and was giving her a cup of tea when my brother shouted downstairs 'Mum, Peter has got all the overcoat and I'm cold'
Mum shouted back upstairs 'It isn't an overcoat, it is an eiderdown' - this was for the benefit of the snooty friend......further struggles ensued by my two brothers and eventually a sleeve was torn fron the overcoat......my brother got out of bed and stood on the landing and shouted downstairs 'Mum,Peter has pulled the sleeve off the eiderdown'
Yes, those were the days! We all got a clip round the ear for embarassing mum......she said we were all getting a slap so that she had 'copped the right one'.
I remember having Dad's army coat on the bed......four of us slept in a double bed in the back bedroom...two at the top and two at the bottom.
There were always squabbles about who had the most of the blankets and one harsh winter Ma put the greatcoat on the bed. She had a very snooty friend in our kitchen and was giving her a cup of tea when my brother shouted downstairs 'Mum, Peter has got all the overcoat and I'm cold'
Mum shouted back upstairs 'It isn't an overcoat, it is an eiderdown' - this was for the benefit of the snooty friend......further struggles ensued by my two brothers and eventually a sleeve was torn fron the overcoat......my brother got out of bed and stood on the landing and shouted downstairs 'Mum,Peter has pulled the sleeve off the eiderdown'
Yes, those were the days! We all got a clip round the ear for embarassing mum......she said we were all getting a slap so that she had 'copped the right one'.
I remember the plastic roses with Daz......the cups and saucers with the labels from Black and green's tea.......fake pearls from Acdo soap powder.
eh that Acdo soap powder was great... did any of you collect green shield stamps