When I wer a lass/lad (game)

go to the hardware store for some 'elbow grease'

Use a Roneo machine.

Putting the washing through the mangle

Using carbon paper for copies

Being the class ink monitor.

Covering school books with brown paper

Donkey stoning the front step.

Ice patterns on the inside of bedroom windows.

Waiting outside headmaster's office for the 'ruler' (primary school)
Only got severe telling off he was a nice head

I think physical punishment may have been stopped by the time I went to high school
Does any Gnners recall when it was phased out in state schools ?

Copying information letters off the blackboard to be taken home.

No computer print outs then.

Grannyknot I had to Google a roneo machine.

Doing the front step with Red Cardinal.

Squeezing water out of clothes with a hand operated mangle

Getting the fire going by putting a blazer covered with a sheet of newspaper in front of it.

A Flit gun.

Using black lead on the range.

Paraffin stoves for heating.

Going out the coal shed to fill the bucket,and scritching the place down because a spider run up me arm

tiggypiro what the heck do you mean a blazer as in item of clothing?

Being a wallflower at a dance.

Outside loo... and no bathroom !!

Grannyknot it's actually a piece of metal known as a 'blazer'

Sheet of metal would be more accurate.

Slides placed on overhead projectors, and manually operated for work or business presentations.