Does anyone remember

[Schutzengel]

Liberty Bodices. They were supposed to protect children's chests in the winter.

[sqad617]

shaneystar2....I don't suppose you live in Blackpool? LOL

[craft1948]

I used to love washday at my grandma's - it was done in a wash house attached to the scullery and the copper actually had its own chimney.
We used to take it in turns to use a posser stick on the clothes in the tub and my gran used to put things called 'dolly blues' in with the whites.

[sqad617]

craft......I remember all those, but the posser stick was called a "dolly"...........and I do remember the "dolly blues"

I would stand on the dolly and try and walk on it, but got smacked.......smacking would solve a lot of problems now. LOL

[shaneystar2]

No sqad617 ..I live nowhere near Blackpool .

Ooh ..Dolly Blue craft :) Reckitts Blue in a little bag .I used to love swishing it into the water .And we musn't forget Robin Starch.
Summer frocks used to be starched to within an inch of their lives .I must have crackled as I walked along :)

[Robinia]

Oh a thread dedicated to the joys of the liberty bodice & the embarrasment of p.e. days when someone who'd never been 'libbyrated' demanded to know what you were wearing! We wore so many layers it's a wonder we could bend in the middle...but we always had a bare bit between the bottom of the skirt & the tops of the socks! haha.
It's funny how we were so wrapped up against the natural elements & yet our homes were bloomin death traps! Strategically placed paraffin heaters, rugs on polished floors, stair carpet held on with rods that came off, mangles strong enough to flatten a rhino...not to mention lead pipes, lead paint & dodgy electrics...it's a miracle we're here to tell the tale!

[sqad617]

Nothing to do with Liberty Bodices....LOL LOL...but.

As a child I was in a gang (we didn't do anything except "scrump" apples) and there was an OAP a miserable s0d whom we called "Gaffa Geezer" He would always ambush me to go for the shop for him....always me, never anyone else.
He always gave me the correct money.....never a tip.

Boring...sorry.LOL

[mrs.chappie]

I can remember our mam washing the clothes in the dolly tub, then standing the three youngest (including me) in the dolly tub for a 'bath'. Warm water was not easy to come by in those days, so it was never wasted.

Those were the days, eh? lol

[Robinia]

Did she peg you out to dry to save washing more towels mrs c? :o)

[mrs.chappie]

No, no, no lass ..... But she did leave us outside to drip-dry on nice days ....

[:o)

[Mamyalynne]

I remember all of the above mentioned, but the mention of starch made me giggle as my Gran used to starch Grandads shirt collars (they came seperate then) one night they went to the pictures and part way through he nudged her and gasped that he needed an ambukance as he thought hed had a stroke. Anyway turns out hed washed his face in a bowl of starch water left by the slopstone sink. LOL all was well.

[Mamyalynne]

I still have a mangle albeit a drainer top model looking at the leaflet with it about 1940`s even the grandchildren think its great when we do dolls clothes

[mrs.chappie]

ROFL @ mamya's grandad!

[wolf63]

I can't remember any of this. I must be way too young!?!

I remember having an outside loo - until I was about 4 and we moved to a new house.

I remember Jumble Sales and the rag and bone man and even the coal man. And whatever happened to Mr Whippy ice cream?

[craft1948]

my grandad was a coalman and if he was in a good mood after dinner (not lunch in those days) he would put a clean piece of sacking on the seat and take me back to school on the horse and cart - I would have been about 4 at the time and used to think it was really grand and wave at everyone.....

[sqad617]

craft....school at 4yrs??

[Mamyalynne]

Ah yes outside loo, coal bunker, army coats on bed for extra warmth and then going to school with "Reme" imprinted on face as had slept on the buttons LOL

[Marijn]

This is a lovely thread!
Do you mean actual coats?
How did you come by them?
What is Reme?

[sqad617]

notafish

Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers

A now disbanded regiment of World War 2

[ethandron]

we had an electric heater thing which plugged into a plug on the landing...but the heater was in the bathroom, right next to the sink! used to stand there in my wyncyette nightie, and drape the back of it over the heater so the warm air would whoosh up my nightie and keep me warm while i washed my face. no health and safety in our house - even though my dad was a fireman!

[Marijn]

Thank you Sqad.
This is a brilliant thread.
Tell us more please :-)