Did You Wear One

[mallyh]

Just chatting with mr mally about our childhood and i remembered in winter i wore a liberty bodice with rubber buttons ,then lined up with my siblings and given a spoonful of cod liver oil and another of malt then sent off to school ,i must say i rarely had a cold lol .

[bhg481]

Yes, a liberty bodice for me too. I seem to remember the cod liver oil but not the malt, although my wife says she loved the malt (I think we even bought her some a year or two back, just for nostalgia).

[Oleanda]

Yes, but I've never understood why they were called liberty bodices.

[mallyh]

we had a malt factory not far from our house and the smell was lovely x

[mallyh]

so glad i didn't get many colds and coughs as granny would get us to drink cabbage water and make a bread poultice for our chest lol 

[barry1010]

No.  My sisters did though and we too had the cod liver oil and malt.

My sisters also had hand knitted polo neck woolens that had flaps down the chest and back, no jumper of sleeves, to be worn under their blouses and dresses.  Can't think what they were called - some sort of neck and chest warmers.

[barry1010]

Oleanda, they were called that because they weren't as restrictive and constritctive as the rigid corsets, they were 'liberating' in that they allowed girls and women to breathe, bend and move more easily

[bobbie22]

Yes I did. I dont quite understand what the rubber buttons were for as they were just there as some sort of decoration.   They used to show through some clothes as well.   We had ice inside the bedroom windows in the winter also. But as you say, I was never ill apart from the usual illnesses, chicken pox, etc.    

[barry1010]

We all drank cabbage water all year round, whenever we had cabbage for dinner, with salt and pepper.   Lovely - and probably better for us than the over boiled, soggy cabbage.

I still drink it

[davebro3]

Not me. I can't possibly imagine that I would have allowed myself to be dosed with cod liver oil & malt!

[mallyh]

Granny had something for all ailments ,when she told me to pee in a bowl and put my feet it for my chilblains i thought that was gross lol 

[Gill1941]

I wore a liberty bodice, too, and always insisted on the last button being left undone as my Dad wore his waistcoat like that.

Also codliver oil and malt (Virol?). Ice on inside of windows.

Bringing back all the memories.

[barry1010]

She was right though, mally - I still put urine on my feet twice a week.  It's in my foot cream.  

[barry1010]

Net curtains stuck to the ice inside the windows, panes rattling in the wind, curtains billowing.  Oh yes, I remember it well....

[ponkle]

Oh yes,I remember all those,plus navy blue knickers  with elastic legs

[Doof45]

Yes I remember my liberty boddice and the cod liver oil and malt. We were also given weekly doses of syrup of figs ' to keep us regular ' and the bottle of aspirins in the sideboard cupboard was used to treat anything else.

[piggynose]

For those of us who have neva heard of em ; )

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_bodice

[zebo]

I had a liberty bodice too, I was weird enough to like cod liver oil capsules, 'my little drink' I called them. Crossing the Arctic circle we were given a spoonful of it, I was one of the few not retching.

[Khandro]

Cod liver oil, you were lucky!

 

[johnny.5]

Did anyone else have Friar's Balsam ?

a few drops on a sugar cube ?

[barry1010]

Yes, to bring up phlegm