Funny how the name changes?

Bobbisox | 15:46 Sun 21st Feb 2010 | ChatterBank

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Years ago the toilet was a "lavatory"
The kitchen was a "scullery"
can you think of other changes?

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now it's a range costing a bomb, back then it was still the black-leaded variety, I bet they are sought after now

Bobbisox

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we had a front room with a one of those cabinet record players with a wireless on the front...a radiogram

boxtops

Yeah - that book "U and non-U" was by Nancy Mitford, it told you helpful things like which was "correct" to say like serviette or napkin (I don't think she even would have known about "do you want a bit of kitchen roll with that?"!).

daftgrandad

How I remember the taste of food cooked in an old black range at my Grandmas in South Wales.

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whose mum used to bake on a Sunday as well as do a big roast for dinner?

boxtops

Have a look at this, I have just Googled it, oh my (I didn't know it was infra dig to play tennis whilst wearing braces!): http://www.independen...ill-tell-1420569.html

Bobbisox

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they were superb dg, my mum used to whiten my shoes for Sunday School and put them in the cupboard at the side to dry and the dough used to on the hearth with cloth over it for the bread

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thats very interesting boxtops

_sophie_

i still call a kitchen a kitchen, but our 'utility room', we call the scullery.
and we call our.... erm, where we hang our jackets up and shoes etc... we call that the vestibule!!

my dad is so old fashioned haha.

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boxtops

well done bobbi, you got a sticky!

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dustypuss

Another reason for not using the front room was that was where you would put a open coffin for all the mourners to look a the deceased . And you would not want to have all your relatives think that your where not well off bye having worn out carpets or scruffy furniture.

dustypuss

The toilet was Know as a out house or the sh1ter in yorkshire

craft1948

funny dusty....we never called it that.
I went to my best mates once in the 60's and walked through the front room into the living kitchen.....it was only on the way out that I noticed her father laid out in his coffin in the front room..............no-one had mentioned it.

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john1066

A condom was a letter from France....

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