Tide Marks - Yuk

[katex]

Actually saw one of these on someone's neck t'other week, was fascinated.
Somethings you do not miss, thank goodness for showers and the Bathroom grant.
Remember the miners who looked as though they had full black eyeliner ?
Thank you fellas for cleaning up your act.

 

[Doug]

Actually saw one of these on someone's neck t'other week, was fascinated.
Somethings you do not miss, thank goodness for showers and the Bathroom grant.
Remember the miners who looked as though they had full black eyeliner ?
Thank you fellas for cleaning up your act.

I use to have one of those..............

 

[katex]

Dirty B ... you only a youngster, so no excuse !! ... would have had a bathroom at least when you were a kid.
Joking apart though, was trying to say how bodily cleanliness has changed for the better, very rarely smell sweat on anyone and that piece of nostalgia can go in the trash can. I vote the introduction of the shower to be one of the tops in my lifetime.

 

[Len]

When I was a young fella (early teens). Our family didn’t own a shower, only a bath and because there were five of us it was to much bother for us all to bath every day so Fridays became bath nights. I ended up during the week only washing my hands, arms and face and more often than not my neck was included in the wash also, even after work. It isn’t any wonder why I was 21 before I popped mi cheery, prier to that I must have stunk.
These days I’m pleased to say I shower every day and it’s not my neck that ends up with the tide marks.

 

[Doug]

Your not getting close enought to the bu**ers.....lol. Just to make issue, I grew up with a "Tin" bath in front of the fire once a week, in winter it was bathing in the stone sink after the pot had been washed. we didn't have an inside bath or bog until 67/68........

I do know what you mean though....... .

 

[ANNE]

It was the same for us. I was 7 when we moved to a house with a bathroom. The water was either scalding or freezing.

 

[cashman]

i was early teens before we had a bathroom. remember with amusement tide marks lol and spuds in the ears.pmsl

 

[katex]

Hwy, just had me tea, late I know.
Was meant to be serious nostalgia this ... you lot crazy, but like ya;

 

[Doug]

Talking about Nostalgia in conjunction with cleanliness and the public health, what about the green trails up the sleeve? Dried bogies and that little act parturition from one or other nostril resulting in a luminous discharge that would hang on with grim determination to the upper lip…………

 

[grannyclaret]

i was sat on the bus behind a woman... you could have fried an egg on her hair it was so greasey... yuk

 

[Doug]

Now then, Greasey smelly hair, thats something I can't stand to be near...

 

[mez]

i tooo lived in the tin bath era..... but then one of my mums friends started to let me use the indoor bathroom ...... it was great ....... but much prefare a shower now..........how times do change.

 

[ossy kid]

You had a tin bath??? Blimey you must have been rich, we had to bathe in a puddle in the back yard !!!

 

[Doug]

You had a tin bath??? Blimey you must have been rich, we had to bathe in a puddle in the back yard !!!

You had a puddle? Sheer luxury Ossy, It wasn’t until the mid 60s that we got our “Hand Me Down” Tin Bath that had a hole at the top left hand corner, previously it had been use as a water troth on Church Bridge farm… I digress, until that fateful day we could only wash when it rained heavy, we had to take turns under the broken bit of drain pipe outside of Mrs Hammers shop on corner of Church St and John St…………

 

[sarah]

I can't be doing with showers, I don't like the water falling down on me, I can't breathe properally, and I feel like I'm being suffocated. Give me a bath and my own mucky water to sit in any day! Nice.

 

[Doug]

Mucky pup, you need one of those little hand showers just to wash the grime away.

 

[Sara]

Remember telling kids that when i was younger we'd never had a shower and they just couldn't believe it. Then i told them that when we did get a shower in the late 70s we had to wash with soap, never had shower gel. They couldn't believe it. Carbolic soap, wonder what has happened to that and if you can still buy it.

 

[Doug]

Just for you Sara. Looks a lot nicer than it use to in our day.............

http://www.carbolicsoap.com/

 

[Sara]

Thanks Doug, sure i got a smell of carbolic when i looked on that site Doug. Noticed coal tar soap as well, forgot all about that.

 

[Doug]

Thanks Doug, sure i got a smell of carbolic when i looked on that site Doug. Noticed coal tar soap as well, forgot all about that.

I know, strange isn't it? I still use Wrights Coal Tar occasionally. I don't know if it’s the memories or the muck that makes me do it, but I love the smell still...