One of the topics which popped up in conversation with friends today was toilet seat covers (no idea why!) Do you remember them? I recall visiting my friend’s granny and she had a fluffy pink toilet seat cover with a matching pedestal mat and she had knitted a pink cover for toilet rolls.
I think it was my nan who always had a bowl of plastic fruit on the table which reminds me, do you remember the home cocktail bars? One of my aunts use to have one and she had a silver cocktail shaker on the bar shelf with a couple of plastic lemons next to it. I guess the bar would be worth a few bob today.
What household things do you remember which we don’t see anymore?
Wash boards and bluebags. The old copper boiler in the outhouse where Nan used to do the washing with a coal fire below the copper …ah, such memories says he with the sound of the gas mantle popping in his head as it’s extinguished
Grandfather Clocks, we always had one in the hall since I was tiny. I used to love the deep sounding lazy sort of tick tock it made. I got it after my parents passed but eventually it gave up the ghost as there was no one able to do the yearly overhaul and check. I put it in the sale room a few years back for repair or spares. I still miss it.
@Rox Thank you for posting that as I had forgotten the grandfather clock we had in the hallway but now you remind me I can recall my dad winding it up and putting the key inside the cabinet. They did have a lovely, calming sound.
@LongDriver Thank you too for the links. I love the Dolly Blue bags with the mixing sticks.
Did anyone have brass in their house?. A few family members had those decorative horseshoe things, and it was my job growing up to polish them to a high shine with the Brasso and a soft cloth.
I remember the blue bags and a cookoo clock, used to like the clock.i just about remember the clothes wringer then my mom had a twin tub washing machine.
@caricature I am pretty sure some of the fishermen used Primus, tilly lamps or something very similar when we use to go night fishing, not that I fished but the then boyfriend did, I was in charge of the keepnet
@PixieKnuckles Like they have in country pubs? I remember Brasso, cleaned a necklace with it once and it turned everything black!
@logan1 My nan had a wringer and mum had a twin tub, she use to open the lid and stir it with a wooden clapper thing. I still remember that lovely smell of soap suds.
@Roj_Blake Oh my goodness! That is a posh bar Roj, my aunt would have been envious! Hers was more Vera Duckworth.
We had a wash house with a big cast iron tub. It was set inside a brick fireplace with a wood burning grate that could regulate fire to heat the tub. That was long before washing machines, twin tub or otherwise.
@Maver-rik We had a paraffin heater but nearly set the house alight so it was replaced by a big stove type thing and I remember dad having to go and buy those big Calor gas bottles to fill it, kept us all very warm and cosy in the winter though.
I remember as a kid around 10 years old I had an old tube TV in my room. It had broken, and I was trying to fix it. Accidently hit the back of tube and got knocked across the room.
