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MotownGal

MotownGal Report 11 Jan 2024 19:41

The old gazunder. :-D :-D

Fly

Fly Report 11 Jan 2024 19:41

:-D :-D :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 11 Jan 2024 19:42

I can see my Mums face now when she realised the loo was not a flusher….she was crying and my Nan wanted her to bring us kids back to her place where we had just left :-D :-D

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 11 Jan 2024 19:43

Where did the waste go Ann? Was it some kind of chemical one?

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 11 Jan 2024 19:44

Think we got central heating when I was about 10 perhaps a bit older.....but that was coal with a back boiler :-0 Having to go out to fill the coal scuttle from the coal bunker outside :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 11 Jan 2024 19:44

They had a weekly collection by lorry…..the stench in the summer was awful

:-0 :-0

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 11 Jan 2024 19:45

Oh gawd Ann :-0 :-0 :-0

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 11 Jan 2024 19:45

Fancy having to do that job :-0 :-0

Von

Von Report 11 Jan 2024 19:46

My aunt used to empty the bucket somewhere in the garden :-0 :-0 :-0

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 11 Jan 2024 19:46

We had some big metal contraption. With doors at the front, and a drawer at the bottom to collect the ashes. It burned coke.

If your leg touched it, you burned yourself really quite badly. :-0 :-0

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 11 Jan 2024 19:48

I know Belle…but a lot of rural areas,in Wales were without gas,electric indoor bathrooms and toilets.

I think I remember Mum saying that electricity was only connected after the war in our little patch :-)

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 11 Jan 2024 19:48

I bet the flowers had lovely blooms Von ;-) :-D :-D

Von

Von Report 11 Jan 2024 19:48

We had a similar thing in our kitchen when I was a kid Maddie ;-) ;-)

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 11 Jan 2024 19:49

We wuz poor, but we wuz 'appy. :-D :-D :-D ;-) ;-)

Von

Von Report 11 Jan 2024 19:50

My aunt didn’t get electricity until mid 1950s. My grandparents had electrify quite a

while before that. :-D :-D :-D

LondonBelle

LondonBelle Report 11 Jan 2024 19:50

:-D :-D :-D :-D Maddie....the youf today don't know their born ;-) :-D :-D

**Ann**

**Ann** Report 11 Jan 2024 19:51

MG…I was helping someone to do their family research and came across a death in Liverpool that I was curious about….the child being 8 years old. I found a piece in the local paper describing how she was getting ready for school and tending her siblings when her clothing caught fire…..she ran out in to the street where neighbours tried to put out the glames…she died several hours later :-( :-(

MotownGal

MotownGal Report 11 Jan 2024 19:51

:-D :-D :-D

Fly

Fly Report 11 Jan 2024 19:52

You lot down sarf are posh :-0 ;-)

Von

Von Report 11 Jan 2024 19:52

So sad Ann. But you did have to be careful with the fires :-(