Just trying to be positive on this bloody freezing day.
I remember when we didnt have central heating. You would wake up with damp blankets, try and get half dressed in bed as it was too cold to get out and there would be icicles inside in your windows.
Vests put round an electric fire to be aired and put on after you had had vick put on your chest.
Its not working though, ive become a light weight over the years lol.
Wonder how we would cope if we went back to our childhood days |
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I often wonder that. We still get ice in some of the windows (not allowed to put modern ones in) but we have central heating etc.
Our kids don't seem bothered by the cold, so guess it gets worse as we age  |
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I remember when I was at school, and there was a rota for baths, and one could only have one every other day, with sponge wash by the sink in between.
The house has since been upgraded with showers a few years after I left, and the girls were able to have a shower everyday.
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"I remember when I was at school, and there was a rota for baths, and one could only have one every other day, with sponge wash by the sink in between.
The house has since been upgraded with showers a few years after I left, and the girls were able to have a shower everyday.
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When we where kids we only had a bath on a sunday night, in between time we where laid out on the draining board lol. I cant quite remember tin baths lol |
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I prefer a cold house. My mum and dad had central heating put in couple years back. Now when I go visit I have arguments with my dad as I would rather have the little fire on in front room and snuggle under blanket than have the heating on. I always turn the rad off in my room if heating is on. |
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"I remember when I was at school, and there was a rota for baths, and one could only have one every other day, with sponge wash by the sink in between.
The house has since been upgraded with showers a few years after I left, and the girls were able to have a shower everyday.
When we where kids we only had a bath on a sunday night, in between time we where laid out on the draining board lol. I cant quite remember tin baths lol"
Sunday night was bath night in our house too.. with the younger having a bathe in the kitchen sink.
Ah. The memories  |
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My parents lived in a two up two down , it was a 17th century poor house , and I had a Sprite Musketeer as a bedroom .
I used to wake with my hair frozen to the window .
When we lived in a farm house in Worcester the house had no insulation whatsoever and you could not pull the curtains in the winter as they were frozen to the window.
Saying that, we never suffered from colds etc but since living in a double glazed centrally heated house we seem to have permanent colds!! |
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We don't have central heating in this house. There is an oil radiator in the dining room, and one in the hall way, but we don't use them. The one in the dining room is put on low because of the parrot, just to take the edge off the cold for him.
The rest of the time we just put extra jumpers on, or snuggle up under a blanket/quilt. Used to it now, although other people complain when they visit. |
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Perversely , the colder the house we have lived in (we are in our fourteenth ) the less we have worn .
That house in Worcester ,when the wind blew from the East the carpet would lift as there was a crawling space under the floor , yet we would sit naked under a blanket by the fire .
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It's only in more recent years I have realised just how lucky I was as a kid. The house I was born in in 1961, was built in 1957 and, I now realise, was pretty 'all-mod-cons' for that day - full bathroom, any amount of hot water, Parkray coal fire on the lounge (My Mum is the clone of Mary Whitehouse and it was a 'lounge', and most definitely not a 'living room'!) etc etc. And I was ashamed that my Dad had to bring in common, vulgar coal to stoke the Parkray as my schoolmates 'up the road' had gas-fired CH!!!
When I started work and began to compare notes, it dawned on me how fortunate I had been. More recently though, the 'Gas-Fired' crowd have admitted to me that they were insanely jealous of ME as we had a 'proper' fire - the Parkray - and that was why, in the power cuts of 1973, all of them wanted to come round my house! We still had HEAT!!  |
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I am a farmers daughter and living out in the middle of no-where the weather conditions cut us off many times. A coal fire in the lounge and a rayburn in the kitchen. The bedrooms used have ice in side the windows. 51 years later i still don't have central heating and the fact is that my children don't suffer half as many colds as their peers that do have central heating. I can't stand it when it is like the tropics in someones house !!  |
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By *Ryan-Man
over a year ago
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When we where kids we only had a bath on a sunday night, in between time we where laid out on the draining board lol. I cant quite remember tin baths lol"
Haha I remember that. Clean vest and pants to go with it  |
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When we were kids my parents had a farm house out in the middle of no where... We didn't have proper mains water and had no gas, the only heating we had was a coal fire in the front room and a Rayburn in the dining room , this used to heat the water up! In the winter we used to get ice on the inside of our windows up stairs... Bath nights used to be Wednesday and Sunday! Can't say we were to bothered about being cold back then |
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"I remember when I was at school, and there was a rota for baths, and one could only have one every other day, with sponge wash by the sink in between.
The house has since been upgraded with showers a few years after I left, and the girls were able to have a shower everyday.
When we where kids we only had a bath on a sunday night, in between time we where laid out on the draining board lol. I cant quite remember tin baths lol"
Same here.
It used to be so cold we had icicles and frost on the inside of the windows. Only one fire in the living room (coal) which was made up at 6pm every night. coats thrown on the beds etc.
them were the days
I do think we have our homes to warm now though and its not healthy at all. My heating isnt on at the moment as i find its just nice |
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The only heating my bedroom has when I was a kid, was the heat from the hot water tak in the airing cupboard and any heat that went up the chimney from the back room as this was below my bedroom.
I remember 'Jack Frost' on the window |
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Up until a year ago I was living in a caravan at the top of an undrivable hill, with no running water, only 7kw of electricity, half the electrics not working due to water getting in, and all through the 2 worst winters in living memory, -20c for weeks on end. There wasn't just ice on the inside of the windows, the toilet was frozen! And my only water supply, the river outside was frozen for weeks. I also couldn't even walk down the hill due to the ice build up...I was trapped!!
I had to get out of there eventually, I'm too old to be living in the dark ages! |
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Bet the energy companies love it when we all have to put the heating on becausse not only to they make loads more money but they can put prices up because of "supply and demand problems" in the future. |
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We had a tin bath- yeah bath night was always Sunday night. Only heating in the house was a coal fire in the living room.
we had electricity, but only downstairs - nightlights were used upstairs (now commonly called tea lights, lol)
We did have cold running water in the kitchen and a geyser thingy on the wall which would heat water...but only a couple of pints. The loo was outside - not down the garden, but out of the door, across the street and up a small set of steps...and was shared with the next-door neighbours - thank goodness for the "gusunder" |
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We had only coal fires in the lounge and dining room, kitchen and upstairs were the coldest rooms. The best part of growing up was sneaking into my Sisters bed. Worse part was itchy Blankets |
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