Trip Down That Ole Memory Lane ,Did You

[Bobbisox1]

Remember seeing a milk bottle on the table?
A butter dish?
Cheese with a lid on?
Oilcloth tablecloth?

A conversation with Mr B
I don’t remember any of this,was it a Northern thing?

[MargoTester]

I remember the coal man or rag and bone man coming around on a horse and cart and my Dad going behind with a bucket and shovel collecting dung for the garden

[fender62]

i also remember those metal windows with the catch, used to get frost on the inside of the window in the bedrooms, this is before central heating, thi sounds mad..but id bring in the parafin heater and heat room with that, stunk but it warmed the room, granny had a clothes line in the living room where the coal fire was, and hand made draft excluders at the bottom of the doors, friends had proper gloves in winter, we had old socks, blacking the hearth...

[Bobbisox1]

In Winter I got a scarf crossed over the body of my coat and fastened with a safeting pin at thd back, mittens were on elastic through each air hole of my coat so I wouldn’t lose them ;0/

[MargoTester]

Did you have a liberty bodice Bobbi, I did

[pastafreak]

We had metal windows...and central heating. But good old Jack Frost was still a regular visitor indoors. I absolutely loved looking at the intricate patterns. They were gorgeous.

[bhg481]

with rubber buttons

[MargoTester]

Yep bhg481 that's the one, I hated it

[Atheist]

An old couple round the corner from us would sit in a cold dark house every winter's evening. Neither of them would put a shilling in the meter, because they didn't want the other one getting the benefit - they hated each other.

[Atheist]

Yes Bobbi, we got the polio vaccine on a sugar cube. And an M&B for whatever - I can't remember, but me mam was a district nurse and could dish them out whenever. Maybe Sqad knows what they were.

[Bobbisox1]

Yes a liberty bodice with rubber buttons was the thing to stop you getting a cold in the Winter haha same as Virol and cod liver oil on a spoon, eyuk!

[Jackdaw33]

My mother used to rub my chest with Vick.

[theshedman]

Ken, I'm glad I put the 2 things in different sentences or it would have looked really bad. Wouldn't have liked to wipe it with a pheasant maybe rabbit wouldn't have been to bad. Lol.

[Peter Pedant]

// And an M&B for whatever - I can't remembe//

may and baker - sulphonamides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfapyridine

by the sixties they were mixing them - tri vorax or something
the whole school (!) got some one time when they couldnt shake a diarrhoea we were giving each other - we were a dirty lot

693 was the 693rd they tested. Prof shninkel von shnonkel von ulm ( ehrlich) has noticed that mouse trypansomes ( no really ) specifically took up a red stain. Und die liebe herr doktor professor thought - "vy not get the red stain to keel zem?"
and so Prontosil Rubrum was born

and the patients went as red as lobster and thought they were gonna DDDDIIIIIEEEEEE! - and their screams were such they were put into side rooms. My mutter was present at the 1936 royal free trials
Trial stopped when they noticed the only survivors were in the red group

[Bobbisox1]

Oh dear God, I wish I could follow your mindset Peter but I can’t

[andres]

No milk bottles on the table when I was a child. You had to take a jug to the milk cart and the farmer would fill the jug with milk from a churn. Tablecloth on the table. Oilcloth on the floor. Gas meter took pennies. Gas mantles . Door key on a piece of string hanging behind the door. Butter dish, cheese dish with cover, glass sugar bowl, cruet sets, Crusty bread and cake stands.Hot water from the boiler incorporated in the iron fire range. Chestnuts roasting . Teasets and teapots.

[Jackdaw33]

I remember front door keys on a long string behind the letterbox. If there should be no-one in when you got home you could put your hand through the letterbox, pull out the string and let yourself in.

[andres]

My uncle was a rag and bone man . He had an old stable where he kept the rags and all the stuff that people threw away. I still have some of the items from then .