Are you old ?

[Skippy]

[:D] Jan!

I remember my Dad's reel to reel! I often wonder what he would think of today's technology - I can't help thinking he wouldn't like MP3s!

[Foggy]

font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:<hr height="1" noshade>Originally posted by footiemad

oh no Foggy I scored 11 but I am the same age as you. We didn't have a bathroom until I was 8 years old, it was a copper and a tin bath in front of the fire. In the winter we had frost on the inside of our bedroom windows. In all honesty though, they were really happy days and I wouldn't have swapped them for anything. The only difference to my circumstances was that my Dad used to bring the milk home from work daily, sometimes with a horse and cart and our groceries were ordered on a Monday and delivered on a Thursday. x

Yep, we had an old copper. and ... oh those baths in front of the fire -- red hot one side and freezing cold the other. AND you had to be quick with the flannel when the neighbours walked in !!! No locked doors ! We were lucky -- the dairy was on the corner and we'd nip down with a jug.

As a kid I was frightened of the mangle !!!

Yes, they were happy days -- far simpler too.

[FormerlyST1100]

That quiz is not fair, not fair at all

OK, OK I remembered 12 of them, the only ones I did not were nos 2 and 5.

No 11 and 14 were due to my parents keeping their washer (with mangle), fridge and cooker for years (the cooker was over 40 years old when they got rid of it).

No 10 came later, ours was pre HiFi and was just the record player in a big red/cream box with lid.

... and I am just a young 48.

[Skeef143]

Ha ha ha..... I remember nearly all of those things Foggy [:D]

My dad's parents were in their 40's when he came along, and they were never on the phone in their lives.. that said, two of my aunties lived up the road so it's not like they were cut off if there was anything wrong. We didn't actually get a home phone ourselves until I was 12, even now my dad treats it as the "enemy"!!

My other grandparents used to live in a colliery deputy's house up until I was almost 10 years old, and apart from the pit there was a farm and 3 other houses - they used to get the milk from the farm, and their "oven" was one of the cooking ranges where you had to have the fire blazing!

I remember some of my school friends living in houses with "outside toilets" and having televisions that you had to put money in to keep them working, our house was built in 1963 so we had relatively mod cons.

[Wizzzard]

I remember all those things Foggy. I also remember Monday always being Wash Day (with capital letters). This day was so sacrasanct that no motor vehicles or delivery carts would enter any of the back streets as all the washing was strung on lines across the street. Every Monday morning my Nan would drag out her dolly tub and fill it with hot water then using her posser she would agitate the clothes in the water to get them clean. She also had a copper plunger with holes in it on a stick called a ponch ... it was my job to wap this up and down in the water until my nan told me to stop or the water got cold which ever came first ... I hated Mondays [:)]

My mum was posh ... her dolly tub was built into the scullery and could be heated via a small coal fire underneath it. Another thing I remember was because of the shortage of bathrooms we had the tin bath in the scullery in front of the dolly but if you were really lucky and you were related to a mine worker it was possible to get a 'pass' which allowed one hot shower a week at you relations pit (great for the fellas, not so good for the ladies). These were massive long rooms with many shower heads in them but no doors or cubicle walls so being a bit shy wasn't an option. I stuck to me tin bath or sometimes when I was really little a sit in the dolly tub [:)]

Ah'll shut me gob now xx

[carole2662]

My mother in law still uses the old iron you heat up on the fire.I scored 12 from the list above and I am in my 50s. I remember the milkman coming with his horse and cart and being sent out with the jug to get milk.

[miak]

I scored two!! Im still young!! yay hehehehe

OK that just made my day.... im either a very young 34 year old or I have lead a very sheltered life...

[Foggy]

No -- miak .. you just have a bad memory !!!! (sign of old age, that !). :0)

[miak]

Hello Mr Clooney... erm I mean Foggy

Honestly, you not the first person to say I have a bad memory... and its a sign of old age... cant remember who the other person was though...

I am 34 going on 104... still have my own teeth so I am not doing so bad...

[olydak]

Foggy i got 13, i can't remember what a wastub wringer looked like. I'm 55

Do you remember snake belts, spangles, Saturday morning pictures for a tanner (sixpence)6d, at the ABC and Odeon, school dinners for 2/6d per week, national savings stamps took £1 to fill a page £5 per book, greenshield stamps, cigartette vending machines in the street, free milk in school, fish and chips for 1/6d, standing up on the bus for someone older then yourself, remember when it was acceptable for a policeman to clip you round the ear'ole.

Regards David

[Foggy]

The only one that escapes me there, David, is snake belts. Yes, I remember having toi take my half crown to school on a monday morning ( I also remember being made to eat the food too !). How about cigarette cards ? Those fish and chips in real printed newspaper and the gas man counting out the meter money and giving some back (could never figure that one out), but I always got a florin !

[olydak]

Foggy the snake belt was an stripey adjustable elasticated belt so called because the buckle was an S shape 2" long metal piece connected to a loop and they were called snake belts to hold your school shorts up.

Regards David.

ps how do i refresh a page, close browswer down then reopen, sure there is a simpler way of doing this

[Foggy]

Just hit "see top 250 posts" at the top and it will refresh.

Ah, yes, I recall the snake belt now -- had a few. The Indian in "It Ain't half hot mum" held his turbam together with one.

[kallis3]

Or just hit 'all' T the top and that does the same.

[country girl]

I remember most of those things we did not have a bathroom until I was ten!

I am old!