General Chat

My mother was a war widow and we lived first with my maternal grandparents, then with friends (rented bed sit) and I know it was a case of washing nappies/clothes by hand , hand wringer, dried on a clothes horse round an ideal boiler! They managed because they had to! Altered/mended clothes, handmedowns, knitted with recycled wool, stood in queues, cycled to town, did housework with a carpet sweeper, if you were lucky or 'Duppy' and brush one hard bristles one soft, and a broom. + a duster!! It was hard particularly that awful winter of 1947, which I just remember! It was SO cold with little or no utilities! Yes it was tough, but they were tough ladies our mother's!!! <3

Good morning Barbara, I was born in 1945. Two brothers and I and my parents
shared two rooms with my Aunt and GrandFather.
House had a coal fire in every room.Half the house was lit by gas, the other half by electricity. I think there were also lodgers and my Aunt's children.
Mother used the public wash house. We seem to take it all for granted now (?)

<3 Myself Being Born in 1946 how did parents cope with looking after us no bathroom no central heating .no health service no washing machine .it must have been very hard for them .now its press a button & everything automated .my late Dad had two Taxis his own Business .Grandma & Granddad had a public house .we are so lucky today x but I am still grateful for my loving Mum & Dad & were I am Today Barbara :-)