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Glazing windows with grease or oil soaked paper

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At one time in Sheffield, poor people used to glaze their windows with paper soaked in grease or oil, to let the light in, and keep the draughts out.

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luxury we never had glassin our windows we had 2 nail bits of old carpet over broken glass just 2 keep cold out

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Carpet!! LUXURY!!!

 

We never had windows, because we didn't have any walls in our house to put em in, we were so poor. :P

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House, luxury! We had a shoe box in the middle of the street and we had to share that with 3 other families. Kids today, don't know they're born.

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