General Chat

Thanks for the explanation Von :-)

I remember those buttonholed skirts so well :-S

Christina

Christina
Because it was so cold I guess.

Also my liberty bodice held my skirt up. Buttons on the bodice and buttonholes on the waistband of the skirt.

Happy days although I do have to say because of the cold war I did think an atomic bomb was going to be dropped any minute and really found it quite scarey.

I have vague memories of catching a bus to Aldgate, then taking a trolley bus to my grandparents who lived near the docks. Just imagine the chaos that trolley buses would cause in that area now!

And wearing a liberty bodice over a vest. Anyone have any idea why we had to wear those?

I'll pass on the hat thanks Rollo
It's currently 31 degrees in my neck of the woods and I'm swelteeeeering :-D :-D :-D :-D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzfwm5VfrQQ

ps: Von, I have a spare bowler hat (worn) if you are feeling the cold

Good gracious me noooooooo :-0 :-0

Good morning Von, are you Errol in disguise :-D :-D :-D :-D

Paul Temple is currently on BBC radio 4 :-D :-D :-D :-D

"Quatermass" which was apparently riveting.................is having a re run........on freeview..........
end of 1950, I was 13......left school 52-3...
ex WD motorbikes in abundance, REAL fairgrounds.......Saturday morning films cliffhanger serials, good cowboys in white hats, baddies always wore black......

met my wife to be, National service 1959-61

the advent of VHF radio, Saturday morning pop music programs.
later came FFSR Lps and then 45's

We moved in 1964 to a council house, yes, a council house was something we aspired to, which had a cold tap in the kitchen and the outside lavatory had a flush.

The family home, where my grandfather and I were born, had a bucket lavvy outside and there was a well across the road where a bucket was lowered on a stick.

I think the rent went up considerably from the 6/- it had been to something more than 10/-.

We were already the proud owners of a Baby Belling, but, to celebrate the move, we became the prouder possessors of a Rolls Rapide twin tub.

We did miss the kitchen range when we moved, although my mother never bothered to black lead it like Nan had. That was a Friday morning job and I still have at least one of her black leading brushes. The fender used to get a good going over with emery paper too.

We did bring two paraffin stoves to the council house with us. Aladdin they were, and most of the neighbours used them as well as electric cookers. The paraffin was delivered on a Friday by the man with the big grey van who also brought groceries, including the blocks of salt.

and everyone hung a jam jar smeared with a little jam and filled with water hung outside the backdoor to catch the wasps,

and most houses hung a flypaper from the lightshade.

everyone had a mop and tin bucket outside.

grandma never went out without her 'at on....

:-D

In the house I was born in, there wasn't a bathroom, toilet was outside, so we had a bath in a tin bath, in front of a roaring fire, lovely and warm when you got out. Mum did hand washing at home, but bigger items went to the bagwash, the washing was brought home wet, in some sort of big sheet, and Mum would hang it out in the garden to dry, it was taken and brought back in an old pram, in fact I think there were more bagwashes in prams than babies :-D

My OH has a big jar of sea salt in the kitchen. She says it is essential for all sorts of things and that ordinary saxo salt is nbg. Apparently her mother used to buy it in Paris as a big lump. Now it is already granulated. She also has a metal hammer from her mum used both for the salt and sugar loaves.

She never salted beans but she got through the big lump at a rate of knots.

Dread to think what she used it for!

Not sure when next yr local multiplex will have South Pacific ( it is available in digital format ) but here is the next best thing

http://www.amazon.co.uk/South-Pacific-Blu-ray-Mitzi-Gaynor/dp/B00428MXMO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1378048950&sr=8-2&keywords=south+pacific+bluray

Under a tenner!

Bali Hai

The big lump of salt was used for =======


salting runner beans,

wash ,slice and put in a big old glass sweet jars,

layer of salt,layer of beans,etc,,,keep in a cool dark place,,,,,,

in winter these was great at chrismas,,,,,,my mum did them every year,,,,,,,mind you had to grate the salt,,,,,,licking your lips after was like sea water.

mind they are frozen now,,,,,,,,

every pantry had old glass sweet jars full of pickled shallots.

2 pennies back on a bleach bottle,and beer bottles.

stamps on a packet of tea,stick 50 or 100? on a card and get 5 shillings back.I remember Hornimans doing this,was in a yellow packet,

Some great memories on here folks thanks :-D

A couple of you have mentioned the dentist, and I've always thought the dentist back then, filled teeth for the sake of it, whenever I went for a check up, I had a filling or 3.

My kids have hardly any fillings, Grandchildren none at all.

what a lovely thread and memeries

I remember the smog no buses having to walk a couple of miles to get the tube into work meeting my friend to walk to the tube as we were frightend to be alone as people suddenly appeared from the smog

tommy steele I still have a 78 of his singing the blues

and a lot of the memeries aready spoken of

thankyou

sally w <3

I remember the dentist coming to the house to take six of my teeth out on the dinning room table, mum was airing my sisters nappies in front of the aga ( my sister is six younger then me) mum came to see if I was alright and when she went back into the kitchen the nappies were on fire :-D :-D :-D

A pound of loose currants in a purple bag, bacon off the slicer that went ching at the end of every rasher and that big lump of salt that everybody's mother had and nobody ever knew what they did with it.

What was it for anyway? I have never felt that I was missing out by not having one.