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OK I'll start - never had an electric blanket - too scared at the thought! Fridges, very late on the scene. Hot water, certainly not at Owen Street, probably at Queens Road - think we had an immersion heater... Don't know how we heated the bath water at Owen Street - can't remember having that many baths...

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Gas geysers over the kitchen sink were very popular if you didn't have running hot water.
You can still get electric ones,it's all right having a combi boiler if it's near the taps, if not the tap runs for ages before it gets hot.

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Gas geysers over the kitchen sink were very popular if you didn't have running hot water.
You can still get electric ones,it's all right having a combi boiler if it's near the taps, if not the tap runs for ages before it gets hot.

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You've jogged my memory Gordon, think at Owen Street we must have had one over the kitchen sink and one for the bath. Don't know about the bathroom basin though!

Know what you mean about combi boilers - you can wait a long time for that hot water!

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Oh deary me ! Listening to you old fogies goin' on .................. eeh us young uns don't know we're born. :)

Four Yorkshiremen - YouTube

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Jeez seems them Yorkshire folk had it real cushy.:eek:

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It wasn't all bad, DiG. Sitting in a tin bath in front of the fire in the kitchen(we didn't have a scullery)was lovely- although I must admit once you were 15 it did get a bit embarrassing!
And of course by then your cousin was too big to fit in with you so one of you got a luke warm bath..

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I once sat in that bath 15 hours waiting for my mother and her friends to finish the gin and leave the kitchen. By then all the water had leaked out of the hole in the bottom, the fire had gone out and it was time to get up for school.
Ah, the good old days!

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In June I stopped using gas appliances when I added natural gas to my list of chemical sensitivities.

I gave away my gas cooker, switched off my combi boiler, and bought electric heaters

I overcome the lack of hot water from taps by using the electric shower head to fill the handbasin, and I have a dishwasher. If I need hot water for cleaning purposes I can fill a bucket from the shower or boil a kettle.

Central heating is not essential for survival.

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That's how I interpreted it too;) ... they'd no idea what it was to mek do; and they wouldn't recognize a day's work if one ran up and bit them on the ass:mosher:

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You should get yourself a water cooled Vickers machine gun:uzi: ... keep away unwanted guests and Jehova's Witnesses, and you'll have lots of hot water for tea.;):D

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As it says on the back of my second fav t-shirt when I'm riding: "Old Farts Rule":mosher: (My favorite is still: "If You Can Read This, the Bitch Fell Off."):D

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I exaggerate. All right, I lie. The bath didn't leak and my mother didn't drink gin. You can't out-imagine 'The Four Yorkshiremen' however you try.

I do remember sharing the tin bath with my cousin when he stayed with us during the war. When my aunt got married (thankfully long before I was 15) she had a lovely bathroom so we were regular visitors. In the early 50's my father managed to squeeze a tiny bathroom in by pinching space off the bedrooms- what luxury, how posh.
They weren't hard times, DiG, it was just the way things were.
Nowadays if you haven't got a couple of en-suites you're roughing it!

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J.W.Bridge of Church Street used to sell these old ranges. I know for a fact where this is still one in Accy (not working of course) and there is one in Haslingden, both having Bridge's "stamp" on them.

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The castings were produced at Lang Bridges.