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Smelly 1500's
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Joan | Report | 7 Apr 2006 11:12 |
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I have been told of people using a small twig, with the end bashed/flattened/frayed/splayed (whatever the technical term may be) to clean their teeth. Apparently it's an old Romany way, but not sure if it's just my Grans imagination or my memories of the tales she told us some 40 years ago. Joan |
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Heather | Report | 7 Apr 2006 11:36 |
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My dad, born 1914 always used to rub salt on his teeth to clean them! |
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Meduck | Report | 7 Apr 2006 12:06 |
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My mother was born in 1915 and I remember her telling me that she used to clean her teeth with a mixture of soot and salt. She had perfect teeth and only had one filling all her life and that was in her fifties |
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Beverly | Report | 7 Apr 2006 14:02 |
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Not surprising that there were so many bugs around, surprised we survived at all. Survival of the fittest xx |
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Beverly | Report | 9 Apr 2006 20:36 |
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Nudged this again for you to read. x |
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Rachel | Report | 10 Apr 2006 09:25 |
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I saw a Horizon programme several months ago about how our health is affected by the diet of out ancestors. We really are a product of our past - makes you think doesn't it. |
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Doreen | Report | 11 Apr 2006 16:39 |
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The pits at Blackheath were used to bury bodies from the great plaque of London (black death one ) several years later bodies were removed and re buried at Gravesend .Well that is the story we were taught in school in Charlton //Greenwich in the 1950`s .We were even taken to see the holes on the heath. Doreen |
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JenRedPurple | Report | 19 Apr 2006 12:26 |
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nudged in response to query! |
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