House Essentials in the 40s/50s

[francypants 441]

Inkwells in the school desks.... and Ink Pens which consisted of a nib pushed onto a wooden handle. ( The nibs were usually crossed or splayed out as the children pressed on them too hard !!)

[trastrick 866]

My grandparents had a mangle thingy to make their own minced meat.

A gas burner thing on the kitchen wall for hot water.

A standard lamp.

An iron that had to be heated on the range.

A piano.

Green soap and scrubbing brushes.

A Ewebank.

A thing for beating rugs.

 

Ah, the standard lamp

 

Also the table lamp we made at woodwork. Three sticks of wood glued together. Do they still have bayonet lamps? Our are all screw type.

 

The wooden photo frame with two sheets of glass you slid down a groove.

The picture in was Aunt Mable and Uncle Fred, her in her headscarf and overcoat and him in his flat cap and mac , at Brid, Filey or Bognor Regis. leaning on the railing.

 

A small three legged stool.

 

A pansion (large mixing bowl for bread)

 

Galvanised wash tub.

 

Small tooth comb for nits.

 

Wooden candlesticks for the cornish/mantel from the market.

 

Framed pictures on grandma's wall: The Haywain, Blue Boy, Bubbles.

[stpetre 12]

Ah, the standard lamp

 

Also the table lamp we made at woodwork. Three sticks of wood glued together. Do they still have bayonet lamps? Our are all screw type.

 

The wooden photo frame with two sheets of glass you slid down a groove.

The picture in was Aunt Mable and Uncle Fred, her in her headscarf and overcoat and him in his flat cap and mac , at Brid, Filey or Bognor Regis. leaning on the railing.

 

A small three legged stool.

 

A pansion (large mixing bowl for bread)

 

Galvanised wash tub.

 

Small tooth comb for nits.

 

Wooden candlesticks for the cornish/mantel from the market.

 

Framed pictures on grandma's wall: The Haywain, Blue Boy, Bubbles.

 

A ponch, a cellar grate chain and as Bognor Regis is in Sussex, perhaps a little too far (and cost) for most south Yorkshire people then.

[TORONTONY 10]

Rice puddings in crazed dishes with a thick brown skin on the top .

And that was thi tea.

 

Did thy ever knock the skin of it?

 

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And the 'Green 'Un'.

 

Do you mean the newspaper or the snot?

 

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Itchy Army blankets on our beds.

Ginger Beer plants that went on fermenting for years ...................

Squares of cut up newspaper hung on string behind the toilet door.

 

And allergies were a thing of the future LOL;)

 

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Tin Bath tub. For the weekly overall wash. The Mangle for wringing out the

washing.

 

There was also the " copper " for the in between washes when you had been gone for the day, during the holidays, eating Rhubarb, Turnips and Blackberries, and using dock leaves for wiping your bum.

[TWhits 11]

My grandparents had a mangle thingy to make their own minced meat.

A gas burner thing on the kitchen wall for hot water.

A standard lamp.

An iron that had to be heated on the range.

A piano.

Green soap and scrubbing brushes.

A Ewebank.

A thing for beating rugs.

Wasn't the gas water heater a Geyser? Not that dissimilar to today's combi-boilers in concept.

Also hot water bottles to keep us warm in bed.

[suzyoo 11]

Itchy Army blankets on our beds.

Ginger Beer plants that went on fermenting for years ...................

Squares of cut up newspaper hung on string behind the toilet door.

 

you had a door!

[lectrolove 10]

My grandparents had a mangle thingy to make their own minced meat.

A gas burner thing on the kitchen wall for hot water.

A standard lamp.

An iron that had to be heated on the range.

A piano.

Green soap and scrubbing brushes.

A Ewebank.

A thing for beating rugs.

 

My Mum used to mince her own meat and had a Ewbank. You can still get Ewbanks, they're very handy things, now this thread has reminded me about them I might buy one.

[backwardben 11]

carbolic soap, nit lotion, and dripping borrowed from next door

[francypants 441]

Not an object but..............

 

Silverfish in the fire hearth. I used to play with them !

[kay1 13]

6 weeks holiday from school, out at 9 in the morning and coming back at tea time, a slice of bread of jam and bottle of water, did the sun really shine every day?

Attercliffe baths 2d and a bath ticket.

Walking to Clifton Park to go paddling (all day again)

Christmas day, 5 penny book with paper dolls, clothes you cut out and fastened to the doll and a "magic" painting book.

Listening to Paul Temple on the wireless.

[trastrick 866]

A ponch, a cellar grate chain and as Bognor Regis is in Sussex, perhaps a little too far (and cost) for most south Yorkshire people then.

 

That's why it was some aunt and uncle, never US!

 

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Wasn't the gas water heater a Geyser? Not that dissimilar to today's combi-boilers in concept.

Also hot water bottles to keep us warm in bed.

 

Also wrapped up bricks and oven plates!

 

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6 weeks holiday from school, out at 9 in the morning and coming back at tea time, a slice of bread of jam and bottle of water, did the sun really shine every day?

Attercliffe baths 2d and a bath ticket.

Walking to Clifton Park to go paddling (all day again)

Christmas day, 5 penny book with paper dolls, clothes you cut out and fastened to the doll and a "magic" painting book.

Listening to Paul Temple on the wireless.

 

We were gone all day, every day. Lodge Moor, Stanage, Stoney, and we didn't have cell phones. That was freedom (and probably today, child neglect!)

[TWhits 11]

carbolic soap, nit lotion, and dripping borrowed from next door

What was the point of borrowing dripping? We used to eat ours (on toast browned on the open fire) and so nothing to give anyone back if we had borrowed it!