Hard times or good.

[manxman2]

I wIll start with baths as a kid in the belfast sink in the kitchen with the whole family there, cos the bath had 2 or 5 salmon in it, waiting to be sold.

 

No fridges in those days.

 

Come on guys lets hear yours.

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

I am only 36 but we never had central heating just a raburn in the kitchen for cooking and open fire in the front room .

 

Use to have ice on the inside of my bedroom window and the standard 16 blankets coats etc on the bed.

 

The strange thing is this is only 20 or so years ago yet we have moved on so quickly .

 

Kind regards OTH

[magman]

Toast on an open fire

[manxman2]

Aye and a spoonful of sugar on it, then dipped in a mug of tea.

 

Or rubbing your bread in the frying pan after me mam had just finished frying with it, everything was cooked with lard.

[V8landy]

Oh yes, and Michael Jackson was not white!

 

Them was the days sunny.

[pegleg31]

Oh yes, and Michael Jackson was not white!

 

Them was the days sunny.

 

 

 

you mean in those days you'd of felt safe leaving your kids with michael jackson

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

Toast on an open fire

 

 

Yum I think I will have to make up a bodged up toasting fork

[manxman2]

Gutting 50 rabbits before school, so my uncle could drop them to the butcher in his dinner hour, and give you a pat on the head as reward.

 

But there again i used to knick his rifle from under hid bed, while he was at work.

Edited October 6, 2010 by manxman2

[bionicle]

Bread and dripping off the Sunday roast .... Hurry up Sunday

[Hucky]

Only 5 years older than OTH (36 ain't OTH yet !) our last house had no heating other than a gas cylinder heater we bought 2nd hand, so either freezing cold or damp.... put in central heating over 2 years spending £75 per month and DIY. Finished just before Xmas 1998 and moved out following easter with a 2 year old, back into another house with no heating (back boiler was condemmed) and immersion blew up 4 days after moving in. Wife not impressed so put in a boiler, 2 rads and cylinder to get on with ! (expanded to all rooms since). Got the house cheap cause nobody else would consider the work it needed, but its now the pick of the street so worked out OK. We had it easy though compared to previous generations, my grandfather lived in a tin roofed farmhouse as a lad (got the photos - in time it got demolished / fell down and he built his current house) but he's still going strong at 88 so tougher than my generation !

[shaun4860]

me and 't family used to live in a soggy cardboard box in 't middle o road...

 

upside wa that me mam used 't make blackest black puddins in 't world.... even the white bits were black.....

 

we used 't dream o moving 't auld septic tank down by 't sewage works....

 

me da used 't work 26 hours a day down 't pit....and pay 't boss privelege for doing so.....and we were grateful

 

shaun

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

me and 't family used to live in a soggy cardboard box in 't middle o road...

 

upside wa that me mam used 't make blackest black puddins in 't world.... even the white bits were black.....

 

we used 't dream o moving 't auld septic tank down by 't sewage works....

 

me da used 't work 26 hours a day down 't pit....and pay 't boss privelege for doing so.....and we were grateful

 

shaun

 

Is that still the same for all you up north move to sunny south.

 

OTH

[Mrs Sweepy]

Having to share a bed with big sis. She had the top end and i had her feet

 

Then in the morning picking the feathers out of each others hair from the pillows

xxxxSuzy

[Cookiemonsterandmerlin.]

Having to share a bed with big sis. She had the top end and i had her feet

 

 

I had to do that I think they call it inbreeding now .

 

OTH

[MM]

Listen to you lot. Half of you sound like Charlie Bucket (Wonka)

[gixer1]

Getting sent to the shop to buy king size no 6 for my mum or collecting the lemonade bottles for the rewards and sweeping up the dross in the coal bunker, also fighting with my brother to get the spot closest to the fire!

 

Regards,

 

Gixer

[hushpower]

in our house it was first up best dressed,them wert ta days. getin milk off ter step to find magpies or tits ad got ther first. or mi dad makin me stand at coal bunker coutin the 20 sacks of coal goin in ta bunker,makin sure tha didnt get diddeld. eee them wer days

[Mrs Sweepy]

I used to live with my nan.And one of her jobs was too make curtains. Whatever she had left over she used to make my dresses with .Boy did I get some funny looks from the kids at school .The 70s where not known for good taste in curtains .

[manxman2]

Bet you didnt get drawn into argueing tho.

[Mrs Sweepy]

No because it would have been curtains for them if they had

[manxman2]

This gentleman came along to save your days.

 

My fav by along way.

 

 

Left link only, see if you can guess who first.

[manxman2]

No because it would have been curtains for them if they had

 

Good to see you hanging about here.

 

 

 

{im still on the curtain theme, im on a roll choo choo}

Edited October 6, 2010 by manxman2

[Mrs Sweepy]

O you know me I just like hanging around . This could go on all night so am drawing it shut now

[bakerboy]

This gentleman came along to save your days.

 

My fav by along way.

 

 

Left link only, see if you can guess who first.

top and tailing in bed with my 3 brothers and 2 sisters all of whom were bed wetters, when asked by my parents, which end I wanted to sleep in, the reply was the shallow end.

I was brought up in a 2 bedroom flat with an outside toilet, no hot water or bath, otherthan the 6 children we also had mum and dad plus my uncle and my cousin living with us, but what great times we had. Moved to a council house in 1962 with a bathroom and inside toilet, which we all thought strange; after all who would want to have a tom *** in the house?

But felt we had won the pools, central heating did not figure until 1976, 4 years after I got married, but we found many ways to keep warm.

bakerboy

ps my dad was 1 of 17, the youngest and last to pass away at the grand old age of 91, he left a legacy of 6 children, 13 grandchildren, 13 great grand children and 1 great great grandchild.

Edited October 6, 2010 by bakerboy

[Bloke]

School shut for 12 weeks in the winter of '62, walking 5 miles down lanes in the snow to get coal and veg for my grandad, pushing them in an old pram. Pork dripping on toast with salt, school shorts made from my dad's old trousers, taken in and shortened . My Mum taking me on the (Steam) train to Lincoln to see Santa . Shooting rats at my dad's friends farm with an old air rifle, later watching my Dad and the farmer butchering a pig, then my Mum going mad because she thought I was too young to see that.

 

1979 - Newly wed and broke, claiming 'gleaning' rights off the pea fields after the farmer had harvested the peas, shelling them into a bucket while watching the (Black & White) TV. I think there were still only 3 TV channels and 4 radio channels, not inc Luxemberg. 2 gas fires to heat the whole house, then having to steam the kids bedroom when they got Croup.

 

Hell, where does the time go?