Do You Remember

[Treetotal]

Aw cheers Jim and Merry Christmas, she's wearing a watch and is that a moble phone she is holding 
Carol

[jim1]

I was a bit suspicious of the early mobile & didn't notice the watch.

[chiddicks]

On the subject of carpet cleaners, I thought this one may interest you. It's an 1870s Carte de Visite. How I wish that I could claim it as one of my own ancestors, but it's one from my collection, but I love it  I think that she was just modelling for it 
Carol

What a great picture and this is the earliest form of advertising that I have seen!

[Treetotal]

Me too...It's a great addition to my collection.
Carol

[Top-of-the-hill]

   "I am assured that this was a perfectly safe thing to do, plug your iron into the light socket! Why would you even think of that as an option?"
   Because that was the only electricity wiring in the house! It was done occasionally in my childhood, but then we had very few electrical gadgets. Radios were battery powered.

   A lot of these things were well after my childhood, but we had the bottles of milk, of course, and I read The Famous Five (and Biggles). The magazines that were bought for me were Swift, then Girl and Girl's Crystal, but an aunt used to send bundles of magazines for me and my mother, which included Mickey Mouse and Radio Fun.

[a chesters]

I was an avid comic reader as well, Beano, Dandy, Roy of the Rovers and Tiger amongst others and of course this time of year, no Christmas day would be complete without an annual or two.

I read the Beano, and also the Eagle. I have at home about 6-8 of the hardbacked annuals they put out. I had them transported from England to Australia at some stage after I arrived.

I think my parents wanted them out of the house

[nort]

I remember the milk crates were left in the school yard or in the entrance and two lads from the nearest class were given the job of carrying a crate to each classroom.Sometimes there was a couple of bottles of orange juice among the milk and a fight over who should have it.At home the coal wagon tipped coal in the street and we wheelbarrowed it to the shed to tip it out.Them that lived in the old rows could shovel the coal straight into their shed from the road through a small wood door in the wall.Every morning the the ashes had to be cleaned out the grate,newspapers crumpled up with few sticks on top before the coal was put on.If you wanted a bath,the damper had to be pulled down at the back of the fire to heat the water.So no just turning the heating on or popping in the shower anytime like now.

[jim1]

If you wanted a bath,the damper had to be pulled down at the back of the fire

Hot water! posh or wot.

[Brie]

Ugh, school milk. We always had it outside and for some reason it was either frozen or had been left in the sun. Still dislike neat milk to this day.

And John Noakes with the Xmas decoration.... We made one every year for yonks. Along with yards of paper chains.

Brie