Thread: What is new since 1948

er indoors · 09-09-2007, 09:16 AM

Do you remember lemonade powder? The drink it made was terrible but quite nice to buy 2oz in a cone shape white paper bag, we used to wet our fingers and then lick the powder off. Your finger was a bright shade of yellow and if your luck held out, get to finish it before the soggy bag fell to pieces.

Wellie boots, I always had a painful red ring around my leg where the top of the boots rubbed.

It was great to take a bottle of water a some jam butties and go off for the day to the park with my mates, could not do that now.

My aunt drank guinness, she used to put a hot poker in it to warm it up.
Our 1st t v was 9 inch, remember Dickson of dock green (evening all) .

National service, Soap was still on ration until 50 s, my grandma kept the family stash under the sink for us and my uncles families, I am told I put the lot down the grid in the back yard, they had to dig up the yard to repair the drains.

Remember the boxed compendium of games? made mainly of paper and card, that never lasted very long.
Our neighbour used to make realy good rice pudding she used to pass some over the wall when she made it as she lived on her own, one day she said you may as well finish it off and passed over a stone potty, yes the ones people put under the bed if you needed a wee in the night. I didnt eat rice pudding again for years.
Our door key was on a piece of string you could put your hand through the letter box and pull it out, most people did the same. Of course nothing to pinch.

It was tough, but we knew no different, putting the washing through the mangle ok for the small items but sheets and blankets gave you muscles. We also had dolly blue and robin starch. Life was so much simpler no direct debits, just little piles of money on the mantle piece for rent coal and money for the gas and electric meter, (that is when we eventually got electric).

petal · 09-09-2007, 10:22 AM

Ditto to all you said slizzy..............lol

Lemonade powder we used to call sherbert lemon (I think)...........loved 'proper' ice cream in a cornet............had to be careful it didn't fall off !
Didn't have a fridge for years and years.................milk kept on a marble slab in the outdoor loo and meat bought as and when we needed it from the butchers.........proper sawdust on the floor shop.
At Grans we had the old chamber pots for during the night and old stone hot water bottles to warm up the bed. Sheets were always cotton and very cold.
Like you say.........so much simpler...........you paid for stuff as you got it, saved up for things.
No Health & Safety, no Political Correctness (who invented that?) if we were naughty the thought of a policeman even approaching us was enough to send us scarpering home.
Fast food was when we had dinner from the chippie.........when they knew how to cook chips properly.

Flood · 09-09-2007, 05:57 PM

Well, I can't help you with things from 1948 because I was born in 1978! But I 've read all this with a smile on my face. It's so great reading about how things were, and what you used to use, like Izal toilet paper. We had that in my primary school, only we called it tracing paper, because that's what it reminded us of!

petal · 09-09-2007, 06:58 PM

If we hadn't got enough grease proof paper Mum used to let us use the Izal for tracing...........jolly good stuff it was too.......except for bottys............not so good for that............lol
Alright for you Flood........you young thing you!!!! Heres us golden oldies having a good old reminice about yesteryear and you come along and remind us how old we are................pmsl..................not to worry............I waiting till I hit 70 and become the most eccentric old bag lady in town....................pmsl

maxdemonkey · 09-09-2007, 07:33 PM

Mary talking of chamber pots my mum called them guzzunders cos they goes under the bed (not sure if spelt that right) when I was little and we stayed at me Nans we had guzzunders, I don't recall using it when I stayed there. this was in the late 70's early 80's when we had to stay there as children.

Used to love helping me Nan with the mangle, then she got a seperate spinner to spin the clothes in after washing them, also remember doing toast on open fire with toasting fork with me Grandad he died in 1982 I was 10 when he died.

lookingback · 09-09-2007, 08:26 PM

Oh soooooooo! glad you reminded me of the old mangles

we had a great big black one in the yard and even when we moved to our new flat in the 50's we had one but think Mam got 'POSH!!!' cos it folded down into a table lol!!!!..... I cant help laughing right now remembering it. What an eyesore!!! Must have taken 10 men to lift up the 3 flights of stairs!!! Wonder what became of it....Probably got a couple of balloons for it from the rag and bone man

anny · 10-09-2007, 12:08 AM

Yes, I remember those tiny little tellies. The screen was blue, wasn't it, and you had to have the curtains closed to watch it in daylight. Not that we had one, not many people did , but my uncle did, and it was a special treat to go and ' look in ' on his. On coronation day a whole crowd of us watched it at the house of the one friend who had one. My parents didn't own one until after I'd left home, nor a fridge, neither. Why were we not all poisoned when we couldn't keep our perishable food at below 5 degrees celcius ? ( And what happened to Centigrade, by the way ? )
Don't get me started on metrication. I'm furious at being forced to try to work in metres and litres. Dont remember being asked, do you ?
One of my grannies had this huge copper for boiling the washing, and a mangle, as well. My first washing machine was a twin tub, with hoses to fill and empty it. What a carry-on. And that was too late for the nappies - they had to be done by hand.
We don't know we're born, nowadays, do we.
All the same, I do feel a bit nostalgic about coal fires and hot water bottles and bedsocks.
And pounds and ounces.
anny.

slizzy · 10-09-2007, 01:01 AM

I miss lbs and oz's too Anny.......don't really understand grams etc. I also still talk in feet and yards and miles, don't think I'll change now - too old for that.

First time I ever saw a telly was for the coronation, my uncle bought one especially for it. Our next door neighbours had one in about 1951 and we local kids used to sit on their garden wall trying to view the telly through the window. When we did eventually have our own telly my favourite programme was 'Champion the Wonder Horse' anyone else remember it?

My Mum and her sister's, 7 of them ( poor grandad had all girls) used to have 'at homes' weekly in turn, there was always home made cakes and buns and whatever was left over got shared between the sister's, for them to take home for the kids. When the 'at home' was at our house I would save the doiley's and crayon them in to make patterns, nothing got wasted.

We never had an outside toilet, luckily my parents were offered a new council house in 1947 - the year I was born, however I had friends who had outside loos and one friend had a toilet with no flush, the local council came round to collect the deposits, in winter that loo was freezing.

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petal · 10-09-2007, 05:25 PM

I was talking to a lady in the coffee shop this morning about mangles........lol I had one when I first got married in 1962 (couldn'tafford washing machine but hubby's work stuff was done in Mums). Mine folded down to a table in the kitchen and I had a burco boiler. And terry towling nappies.........came up whiter than white and by the time they'd been through the mangle the water was just about gone........lol Somehow spin driers werent as good.

Flood · 10-09-2007, 07:06 PM

My Gran had a mangle, and I can still see her using it. She was a stickler for it and refused point blank to have a washing machine! I don't know where I'd be without mine!
And Mary, you will never be old!

09-09-2007, 09:16 AM	#11 (permalink)
er indoors Committed Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Lincolnshire Posts: 69	Re: What is new since 1948 Do you remember lemonade powder? The drink it made was terrible but quite nice to buy 2oz in a cone shape white paper bag, we used to wet our fingers and then lick the powder off. Your finger was a bright shade of yellow and if your luck held out, get to finish it before the soggy bag fell to pieces. Wellie boots, I always had a painful red ring around my leg where the top of the boots rubbed. It was great to take a bottle of water a some jam butties and go off for the day to the park with my mates, could not do that now. My aunt drank guinness, she used to put a hot poker in it to warm it up. Our 1st t v was 9 inch, remember Dickson of dock green (evening all) . National service, Soap was still on ration until 50 s, my grandma kept the family stash under the sink for us and my uncles families, I am told I put the lot down the grid in the back yard, they had to dig up the yard to repair the drains. Remember the boxed compendium of games? made mainly of paper and card, that never lasted very long. Our neighbour used to make realy good rice pudding she used to pass some over the wall when she made it as she lived on her own, one day she said you may as well finish it off and passed over a stone potty, yes the ones people put under the bed if you needed a wee in the night. I didnt eat rice pudding again for years. Our door key was on a piece of string you could put your hand through the letter box and pull it out, most people did the same. Of course nothing to pinch. It was tough, but we knew no different, putting the washing through the mangle ok for the small items but sheets and blankets gave you muscles. We also had dolly blue and robin starch. Life was so much simpler no direct debits, just little piles of money on the mantle piece for rent coal and money for the gas and electric meter, (that is when we eventually got electric).

09-09-2007, 10:22 AM	#12 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	Re: What is new since 1948 Ditto to all you said slizzy..............lol Lemonade powder we used to call sherbert lemon (I think)...........loved 'proper' ice cream in a cornet............had to be careful it didn't fall off ! Didn't have a fridge for years and years.................milk kept on a marble slab in the outdoor loo and meat bought as and when we needed it from the butchers.........proper sawdust on the floor shop. At Grans we had the old chamber pots for during the night and old stone hot water bottles to warm up the bed. Sheets were always cotton and very cold. Like you say.........so much simpler...........you paid for stuff as you got it, saved up for things. No Health & Safety, no Political Correctness (who invented that?) if we were naughty the thought of a policeman even approaching us was enough to send us scarpering home. Fast food was when we had dinner from the chippie.........when they knew how to cook chips properly.
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

09-09-2007, 05:57 PM	#13 (permalink)
Flood AA SUPPORTER Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: A great place in Devon called Tiverton. Posts: 5,022 Total Awards: 4	Re: What is new since 1948 Well, I can't help you with things from 1948 because I was born in 1978! But I 've read all this with a smile on my face. It's so great reading about how things were, and what you used to use, like Izal toilet paper. We had that in my primary school, only we called it tracing paper, because that's what it reminded us of!

09-09-2007, 06:58 PM	#14 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	Re: What is new since 1948 If we hadn't got enough grease proof paper Mum used to let us use the Izal for tracing...........jolly good stuff it was too.......except for bottys............not so good for that............lol Alright for you Flood........you young thing you!!!! Heres us golden oldies having a good old reminice about yesteryear and you come along and remind us how old we are................pmsl..................not to worry............I waiting till I hit 70 and become the most eccentric old bag lady in town....................pmsl
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

09-09-2007, 07:33 PM	#15 (permalink)
maxdemonkey AA SUPPORTER Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Hampshire Posts: 3,717 Total Awards: 3	Re: What is new since 1948 Mary talking of chamber pots my mum called them guzzunders cos they goes under the bed (not sure if spelt that right) when I was little and we stayed at me Nans we had guzzunders, I don't recall using it when I stayed there. this was in the late 70's early 80's when we had to stay there as children. Used to love helping me Nan with the mangle, then she got a seperate spinner to spin the clothes in after washing them, also remember doing toast on open fire with toasting fork with me Grandad he died in 1982 I was 10 when he died.
	Max

09-09-2007, 08:26 PM	#16 (permalink)
lookingback New Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 22	Re: What is new since 1948 Oh soooooooo! glad you reminded me of the old mangles we had a great big black one in the yard and even when we moved to our new flat in the 50's we had one but think Mam got 'POSH!!!' cos it folded down into a table lol!!!!..... I cant help laughing right now remembering it. What an eyesore!!! Must have taken 10 men to lift up the 3 flights of stairs!!! Wonder what became of it....Probably got a couple of balloons for it from the rag and bone man
lookingback New Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 22

10-09-2007, 12:08 AM	#17 (permalink)
anny AA SUPPORTER Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: West Lothian Posts: 12,025 Total Awards: 4	Re: What is new since 1948 Yes, I remember those tiny little tellies. The screen was blue, wasn't it, and you had to have the curtains closed to watch it in daylight. Not that we had one, not many people did , but my uncle did, and it was a special treat to go and ' look in ' on his. On coronation day a whole crowd of us watched it at the house of the one friend who had one. My parents didn't own one until after I'd left home, nor a fridge, neither. Why were we not all poisoned when we couldn't keep our perishable food at below 5 degrees celcius ? ( And what happened to Centigrade, by the way ? ) Don't get me started on metrication. I'm furious at being forced to try to work in metres and litres. Dont remember being asked, do you ? One of my grannies had this huge copper for boiling the washing, and a mangle, as well. My first washing machine was a twin tub, with hoses to fill and empty it. What a carry-on. And that was too late for the nappies - they had to be done by hand. We don't know we're born, nowadays, do we. All the same, I do feel a bit nostalgic about coal fires and hot water bottles and bedsocks. And pounds and ounces. anny.

10-09-2007, 01:01 AM	#18 (permalink)
slizzy Ancestry Aid Staff Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 16,202 Total Awards: 8	Re: What is new since 1948 I miss lbs and oz's too Anny.......don't really understand grams etc. I also still talk in feet and yards and miles, don't think I'll change now - too old for that. First time I ever saw a telly was for the coronation, my uncle bought one especially for it. Our next door neighbours had one in about 1951 and we local kids used to sit on their garden wall trying to view the telly through the window. When we did eventually have our own telly my favourite programme was 'Champion the Wonder Horse' anyone else remember it? My Mum and her sister's, 7 of them ( poor grandad had all girls) used to have 'at homes' weekly in turn, there was always home made cakes and buns and whatever was left over got shared between the sister's, for them to take home for the kids. When the 'at home' was at our house I would save the doiley's and crayon them in to make patterns, nothing got wasted. We never had an outside toilet, luckily my parents were offered a new council house in 1947 - the year I was born, however I had friends who had outside loos and one friend had a toilet with no flush, the local council came round to collect the deposits, in winter that loo was freezing. .

10-09-2007, 05:25 PM	#19 (permalink)
petal Super Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Horncastle, Lincolnshire Posts: 8,637 Total Awards: 5	Re: What is new since 1948 I was talking to a lady in the coffee shop this morning about mangles........lol I had one when I first got married in 1962 (couldn'tafford washing machine but hubby's work stuff was done in Mums). Mine folded down to a table in the kitchen and I had a burco boiler. And terry towling nappies.........came up whiter than white and by the time they'd been through the mangle the water was just about gone........lol Somehow spin driers werent as good.
	(AKA Mary) How beautiful it is to do nothing and rest afterwards...

10-09-2007, 07:06 PM	#20 (permalink)
Flood AA SUPPORTER Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: A great place in Devon called Tiverton. Posts: 5,022 Total Awards: 4	Re: What is new since 1948 My Gran had a mangle, and I can still see her using it. She was a stickler for it and refused point blank to have a washing machine! I don't know where I'd be without mine! And Mary, you will never be old!