Do you remember? household items

I use a clothes prop as well. And I used to love the smell of the washing boiling.
My step-father had his own equipment for mending shoes, and every few weeks it would all be spread about the kitchen, with sheets of leather waiting to be cut up for heeling and soling of everyone`s shoes.
And I know it`s possible to buy rug making kits, but my mother used to cut up all our old clothes into strips, and spread the canvas backing across a frame, and spend every day and some evenings making our hearthrugs, using half a clothes peg. They were lovely thick rugs, lasted ages.

I still use a clothes prop on my washing line JackyB!
I too liked the taste of Scott's Emulsion but I don't know what it was for or what it was made of?

All sorts of fur and feather used to be despatched in the guards vans of trains back in the day. No packaging, no 'elf and safety'. Tie their legs together and sling 'em in. DH's granny used to send a brace of rabbits down from Brecon once a week and he had to go and pick them up from the station and carry them home. It turned his stomach and even now I daren't cook rabbit though it is one of my favourites.

I used to love licking the Gibbs Dentifrice.....lovely flavour!

And the tongs and wooden prodder thing. And the horrible smell of boiling laundry!

And back on the subject of washing again- the good old clothes prop.

Jacky, catsbum teatowel holders indeed!!! Haha!

Re Turkeys

Recently when I was in hospitlal next door bed remembered getting a turkey for Christmas, rellies were in Ureland and dispatched the bird to scotland with a label round its neck.

Survived the journey!

At Christmas the turkey would be hung upside down, fully feathered and giblets intact, in the cellar (no fridge but it was bleddy cold down there!) until my mother plucked, drew and singed it ready for Christmas dinner. Sometimes there were eggs inside it ?. It was a messy, time consuming process. How we are spoiled today with oven ready this and that.

BBbevan I loved Scott's Emulsion! Strange child......

I wear an apron when I'm cooking as I tend to be very messy.

A couple of them look like butcher's aprons

We had a paraffin lamp in the loo which was part of the house but not accessible from inside the house; it had its own outside door which had a very large gap underneath.
Brrr

We had to put a lit tealight under our loo cistern in Sheffield during the winter of 1978-9 so that it didn't freeze up. The bathroom (well, the bath and sink drains), which was an add-on at the back of a large old terraced house that had been made into two flats, froze up for days at one point. We had to wash in the kitchen, which we warmed by turning the cooker on.

I haven't seen a meat-safe lately, come to think of it.

Virol, I had a spoonful every day in winter and I loved it I bought it for my children but it made them heave. Also Scott's Emulsion. Now that was horrid.

And after the milkman's horse and cart had delivered in our road the old man next door always came out with his bucket and shovel for the manure for his roses!

I remember cheese being cut with a wire in grocer's shop and also the wooden paddles to put the butter into oblongs after you bought it. Also the birds pecking the silver foil on top of the glass milk bottles that were delivered to your home

I remember my friend's Mum putting Reckits Blue Bag on insect stings/bites. I think it must have contained soda?

My gran kept a lit candle on the toilet windowsill - there was no light in there so it was needed. She reckoned it kept the pipes from freezing, but it didn't do much for the freezing air! There was an ashtray beside the candle, and a hook on the wall, on which hung squares of newspaper.

My mum used to put tiny paraffin lamps in the bathroom in winter, to stop the pipes from freezing.

I liked the cosy paraffin stoves too but there were often news reports of people, especially children, dying in fires caused by an accident with their paraffin stove.

My parents had a grocers shop with equipment to charge the big glass acid-filled batteries that people brought in.

You don't see Vim these days. It's handy if you want to scrub the nice shiny surface off your bath!

I remember Gibb's Dentrifice when I was growing up. It was a pink paste in a small tin. I hated it and all the family used the same tin. One of the first things I bought when I had a job was a tube of Mac Cleans toothpaste just for me.

Mum called it the wringer. It lived in the "yard", today's patio. I loved turning the handle and watching all the water run out. Yes we had reckitts blue, too. Coal bunker at the side of the house which dad filled the scuttle from. A large radiogram in the sitting room and an indoor shelter in the back room. Still remember the sound of the siren. We used a brass toasting fork over the fire, and mum used to heat up the iron on the gas cooker, and thump the stuff she was ironing. The pantry had two thick stone shelves and the milk was kept in buckets of water in summer. Horses delivered milk and bread. Thank goodness for progress.

I always wear my ancient apron especially when frying as I detest fat splats on my sweaters.Actually,when dh sees the apron being strapped on he knows a good fry up is on the way.I have also made aprons for my little gd though now I think about it I haven't seen her wearing it.

Anyone remember that feeling of woe betide you if you broke a gas mantle? And it was so easily done.
We had "batteries" delivered to the house, and changed weekly, for the radio. They were open containers of black liquid, which I learned in later life was acid. Ours were kept on the pantry floor, we were all warned never to touch them. Health and safety would have had a field day!