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Ena Sharples, a character in the UK soap opera Coronation Street between 1960 and 1980, was famous for wearing a hairnet. The original hairnet was brought in by the character's actress, Violet Carson, to stop the make-up women from altering her hair.

Female Gang members in the United States and Mexico may wear hairnets as part of their uniforms.

(Vital info nicked from you know where.) :-)

This caravan I'm stood in front of - the Bessacar had a bath,
Unfortunately the bath (unlike the 'kitchen' sink) was neither plumbed in, nor was it attached to any drain.The bath was in an 'awkward' position too, under a window, opposite bunk beds.
The bath was, for most of the time, MY bed!
Hardboard was laid over the top of the bath, and a foam cushion put on top.

However, once a week, a plug was put in, water was boiled, and we (in turn) had a bath - starting with the youngest - me :-D :-D
At the end, the plug was pulled out and water just went over the 'garden'.
Now, I had 2 parents - who slept in the only part of the caravan with a door - the double bedroom, 2 brothers and a sister.
I slept on the bath, one brother and my sister slept on the bunk beds.
Eldest brother was sent off to boarding school - followed a year later by my other brother.

Oh yes, and the toilet was a bucket in a shed!

However, this was 'one up' on our previous accommodation - a converted double decker bus in the middle of a field of cows.
No bath of any kind, loo, again, a bucket in the shed.
No water 'on tap' - water was obtained via a nearby pump, which, it's possible cows had licked. wiped their bums on - anything. :-S :-S

It was here where I caught a nasty illness, that resulted in at least 2 months in isolation at Banchory Sanitorium - aka 'Glen O' Dee' for those of you who have read 'Sanitorium' by Somerset Maugham.

As an adult, I've lived in other places with no indoor loo (or outdoor, either), no shower, no bath, no electricity.

The ex and I lived in a caravan, in Shetland, where there was a curtained shower cubicle - with no shower! No hot water, either.
So, we bought a large garden sprayer, and adapted/attached a long shower head.
We'd fill the sprayer with hot water, and place the sprayer outside the curtain.

Whilst one of us was having a shower, the other was the other side of the curtain, pumping the sprayer furiously, to get the water through the shower hose!
The shower hose was held in the hand - so 'soaping down' was awkward, getting shampoo out of the bottle to wash hair was tricky!

I was born in my grandparents' Liverpool home in the early-40s and we did have a bathroom - basin, bath but no shower - and my grandfather had flatly refused to have a loo in the house as he thought it unhygienic. It was in the backyard, complete with basin!

Once my parents moved out, we always had a house with a full bathroom suite.

The only time I have lived in a house without a bath was for about 18 months after we married. We were all set to move into a house whose occupant was going to move into her future husband's home - and, at the last minute before everything was signed, she called off her wedding!

We had a terrific scrabble just before we married but, luckily, my OH's employer offered us a two-up, two-down which had a loo and basin in the yard. Fortunately our parents lived near so we were still able to bathe - but it was good to move out into a house with all mod cons after that short while.

Andysmum - I had a geyser over the bath in one flat I lived in.
It was huge!
The bathroom was set in part of the landing, and wasn't big enough for a full sized bath, so it was a 'sit-in' bath - a bit like a disability bath - but you had to climb in :-S
This wasn't easy, as the lowest point of the bath (tap & plughole end) was about 12 inches wide, then the 'seating' area went up 18 inches, and along about 12 inches.
Then there was at least a foot above the seating area.
So, to climb in, you had to get your leg up and over about 30 inches, and either land on the 'seat' area, and hope you could sit before you slipped, or fight with the geyser and spout (which came out at least 20 inches into the bath area, and put your foot in the 'footwell'.

The geyser was also used for the sink.
I could wash my hair by bending over double. :-S :-S

Biden is currently leading Trump 50 - 44 in Florida.
The state has 29 EC votes.
Unless Trump manages to fix the election ( voiding postal votes, army of chads, shortage of voting facilities in Democratic locations ..... ) he is a dead duck.

Having implememted such measures he might feel able to say a fair election was not possible and it would have to be delayed. He has already suggested as much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzayf9GpXCI

The house I live in has had a shower ( and at one time a bath ) since before ww1.
Quite often the shower head was integrated with the bath taps but for those with the room a seperate shower was popular
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Showers were absolutely the norm in John Betjamins 1930s Metroland. Of course a lot of people put up with a jog n bowl a tin bath and outside loo but it has not been the norm in living memory - until now.

Tho' showers are indubitably efficient a hot bath, stiff whisky, classic fm are more enjoyable and better for aging backs.

I seem to remember that one house we lived in had a geyser over the bath. They weren't as efficient as modern gas boilers and the water was never too hot.

The tap was quite high up and was just right for sitting in the bath and rinsing your hair.

Other places we lived weren't so user-friendly!

Trump's mandate may not have long to run, but my sister lives in Florida and she can't believe how many of her normally intelligent friends think the sun shines out of Trump and will be voting for him again.

Kath. x

Before showers were the norm in the UK, hair washing consisted of -

a) using a plastic jug for rinsing and bending over the (freezing cold) rim of the bath or basin and trying to refill the jug with eyes screwed shut so as not to get shampoo in them

or

b) fixing a rubber showerhead to the separate hot and cold bath taps and using that to rinse. Inevitably, one (or both) hoses would come off, and burn or freeze your scalp.

And your hair was long and thick in those days!

A lot of people like a high pressure shower. They are v popular with sporting clubs for instance. All Trump has to do is to install a shower pump - they run out at £ 450 - 500 (+ labor) for a single shower more for a whole building install ( > 1 shower, not all devices which could be damaged ). Raising the general water pressue for the same effect is a mega stupid idea.

Typical domestic water pressure in the US is higher than Europe anyway. There is absoilutely no need to crack a nut in this way. I think Trump's true reason for his latest asinine comments was to junk even more environmental protection laws.

In any case with his mandate due to run out in 80 days what is the point ?

Hmm that's right 60s :-D

That was in the olden days when there were bath cubes!

In the olden days when i had beehive hair style used to put bath cube in warm water to rinse hair lacquer out did the trick ;-)

Have you ever tried to get several gallons of lacquer out of you hair?

Even our Boris has not complained about washing his hair! Trump sounds more like Dom C. No rules ought to apply to him!

What a bleddy shower! :-0

Maybe he should just put it in a washing machine :-D :-D

He really does beggar belief, doesn't he?
Millions have died due to coronavirus, and he's worried about the ferret he calls 'hair'.

Apparently Trump the Chump wants to scrap the water-saving resriction on the flow-rate of shower heads in the US because he can't manage to wash his hair without using five times the amount of water the other couple of hundred Americans use.