General Chat

oooooh its so much easier these days fred...

Our copper boiler was kept on the balcony of our flat. It was used to boil washing and for heating water for a bath, as although we had a bath, it was only connected to a cold water supply. Bath water had to be ladled in from the copper with a bucket. Fortunately, the bath outlet was connected to the drain, so we didn't have to ladle the dirty water out. Our flats were built in Edwardian times with kitchen ranges and gas mantles for light. By the time I came on the scene, those had all been removed and we had a gas cooker and electric light, but only one power point in each room. We had coal fires, and I'll swear I got such long arms by lugging buckets of coal from the shed up the stairs to our 4th-floor flat. CB >|<

eeeer Jean,Do you mean there is something more modern?.lol I can remember it okay ,though i was youngish at the time,i remember my mum coming home from the office and spending four hours breaking her back doing the washing using this method,up to ,and including ironing with a coal iron.so much easier now ladies [thank the lord]Fred.ptfg&a&g&w.

My grannie lived in a house which had a copper set into a concrete worktop. She also cooked on a range with a fire in the front room. My mother had a mangle and also huge wooden clothes tongs. nell

how many of you have ever done your washing in an old fashioned copper which you had to light a fire under to boil the water....ours was in a brick hut at the bottom of the garden next to the wooden toilets and you had news paper instead of toilet rolls