Ooh we had a Gas fridge Mrs T ,when i was little ,infact ,when we moved to a new build in
'78 it came with us ,until my parents got a new fridge about a year later and opted for an Electric one ,now we lived in a house with all 'Mod-Cons

Until we moved to that new house in '78 when i was 15 we still had an outside toilet ,no Central heating etc ,and like lots in here had Bedrooms with Frost on the inside of windows in the winter

It was a well known saying in our house that at Bedtime i got undressed to get dressed again to go to bed ,putting on a thick Cardi over my nightie and big socks and woolley hat to go to bed in

Everything got fixed and mended and reused in some way
Not so long ago we were throwing out a metal washing airer . The rungs had rusted from wet washing but the two wings you fold out were still perfect
My husband asked if he should unscrew the wings and keep them " just in case " . I nodded in agreement , then we both laughed out loud and said " in case of what exactly "

Yep. Also a mad hoover.

The only gas fridge I ever saw was huge on the outside and tiny ice box on the inside. We never had one. We stuck everything that needed chilled in any room in the house really. it was Baltic where ever you were .

Oh yes!! The pantry!!

Or larder to some.

Ours had to be in the Seventies Muggsy, I'm sure as I so remember her buying it but I could be wrong too. It's young memories.


I used to sit in wonder thinking of how a fuel that provided heat could make something cold

I keep laughing at all these posts with all the attire we wore, we must have looked like historic Minions, all one plumped up shape


Your right there Ducky, everything today is throwaway.

You daft buggers

I'm afraid that my former partner,who is my greatest friend, is somewhat like you two, something will always come in handy. I'm like "Where's the bin"

The freezer box was small but the fridge was not huge, it was about the size of normal fridges. I bet ours was dead more modern than the ones you saw

We had a pantry, but any room bar the living room could have been it as you say. How on earth did we survive with no 'sell by dates' 'Eat by dates' no freezers and all the rest.

For Jimbo

But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe ya'.
:

The only one I saw was in a house we bought in the 70s owned by 2 eccentric old sisters who had gone dolally. There was jars of marmalade and porno mags in it. very odd, all off it.

Did anybody have a 'kitchen cabinet' like this? With that and our gas fridge we'd practically got a fitted kitchen. Mind you, I seem to remember the central pull down section wouldn't take anything heavier than a teacup.

I'm probably related Benji


Oh bloody hell Muggsy, I indeed remember my Mum having one, the slidey doors at the top and the drop down work surface that used to drop to the bottom cupboard on a fail

My snobby brother has made some awful comments in the past such as us eating under a Pulley that had clothes that dripped on us. Now I do not remember that to be true but maybe the trauma blanked it out

I have one of those cupboards in my van now it fits lovely, as a child we had one of these it was our main food store.

Hated wash days. The fire was surrounded by wet clothes on a clothes horse steaming and blocking the little heat from the fire.

We were thrilled to get a second hand small gas fridge. Before then we kept perishable food in a cold box in the garage. We bought ice blocks for the box from a trader who would regularly call. So many deliveries of different products were made in those days. Not just groceries but laundry as well.

We had one of those ,and if you leant on the middle bit without thinking with your elbows,as you knealt on your chair ,the whole thing in the middle would come crashing down,with whatever was on it crashing to the floor ,we'd have faces like this praying that not to many cups or whatever was on there would be broke earning us a smack off my Mam

I bet it is now worth a bit Welshmam, lovely to see you btw


Why was Mondays always a wash day?:confused My Mum used to compare nappies on lines and reckoned hers where the whitest...shame on the grey nappy family


You had a garage and ice blocks bought in? I'm in awe and how posh you were...and laundry too

You are now formally known as Lord Parker Please excuse my light jest x

yes........exactly like that

I think every house had one !

Our pantry was awesome - a long room, lit by two lancet windows, slate lined interior, slate shelves and a flagged floor.

It was in the oldest part of the house, and was deliciously cool on the hottest of summer days. I remember going in there and lying on the floor on those days!

I was told that pantry was the wrong word for it and that it should have been called the larder, but we always called it the pantry.

nice to see you too Mrs T,

Yeah, as well as milk of course, the baker came every day. Mum sent sheets and towels to the laundry once a week (everything had a laundry mark on one corner) and washed everything else by hand before a launderette opened nearby.

There was the coalman as well, the chimney sweep and the rag and bone man came round regularly, and we had a guy called "Sashcord Ken" who dressed as a cowboy and rode a motorbike.

I've so loved the posts on here, hope your well and kicking


On my weeks off I try at least to watch some TV shows that show the old type things that have sort of come together with all our new stuff, you'll know the thing I mean. For me I'd rather the old than the new. I'd be happy with the past days...and a heated blanket I do have my limits

Do you remember a TV documentary programme called the Victorian Kitchen and the Victorian Kitchen Garden broadcast in the 1990s?
It was fantastic and featured two bona fide old world people - Harry Dodson and Ruth Mott.

I have them on DVD and it's my favourite boxset.

I loved The Wartime Kitchen and The Wartime Garden which featured those two.......and a rather attractive younger women who helped them

We had a gas fridge in the early/mid 60's. AFAICR, it was a Prestcold with a tiny freezing compartment just about big enough for a couple of packets of fish fingers and an ice-cube thingy.
It had a small pyrex glass chimney at the back with a tiny flame at the bottom of it.

I can remember, as a kid, our indoor bath and toilet being installed by the Council, both of which were in our kitchen.
The toilet was behind a sliding door at one end and the bath doubled as a kitchen table.
It had a (very heavy) top that was hinged and was secured to the wall by hooks when it was lifted for bath time.
Prior to that it was the tin bath and the freezing cold outside loo.
Which is why we had a pot under the bed at night

Ours was orange.