General Chat

My parents were born in 1914 and 1918 respectively and married in 1941! My father was already in the RAF my mother in the WRAF. He spent six months in South Africa for training, she lived with parents as you couldn't stay in the forces once you were married!!! When he came home they went to Lincoln, where he eventually joined a bomber crew as a navigator. Six weeks later he was killed, I was born five weeks later.
The story has a happy end though as in 1947 my mother married again and we went from a bed sit to a house with a bathroom!.. lets just say that it was our lucky day!!

..and they were 'proper' bedsits!!!
A Baby Belling to cook on, and a shared bathroom somewhere at the end of a long, dark, corridor :-(

My g g grandfather bought his own house (well, on a 99 year leasehold), in Chapel, Southampton, in the 1840's.
It was a two up two down, with a scullery and an outside loo.
When my mum lived there, she, her sister and parents lived downstairs, a family of 7 lived upstairs :-S
They shared the scullery and loo.

Saturday night was bath night
The bungalow bath was brought in from its hook in the garden and placed in the scullery
Buckets and big saucepans of water were heated on the gas cooker also in the scullery and fed into to bath
The two youngest kids sat each end and had they hair washed and the splashed around to be lifted out in warm towels and dried off in front of the coal fire in the kitchen
Fresh hot water was added to the bath and the two kids had their baths and hair washed

Mum and dad were the last ones to get a bath in the diluted bath water that had to be bailed out at times to keep the levels down