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......a pair of rose tinted specs what would you like to see from 'back in the day'?
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I'm now picturing Boo with a 'bubble' perm and a fringe that won't ever shift due to the amount of Silvikrin used!
Don't behave Islay!
JNO! I recall driving down a street from my childhood, it was mind blowing how it had changed with all the cars parked on the road and there was nowhere for the kids to play out.
Don't behave Islay!
JNO! I recall driving down a street from my childhood, it was mind blowing how it had changed with all the cars parked on the road and there was nowhere for the kids to play out.
Lol Boo I think even I could have beaten you on fitbit - I mean how much calories do you burn lift a glass anyways!!!
Anybody who looks back to the fifties with fondness really do need to clean their rose tinted specs!!
Very few women worked after getting married; they stayed at home to raise the children and keep house. The man was considered the head of the household in all things; mortgages, legal documents, bank accounts. Only the family allowance was paid directly to the mother. Should a woman find herself in a loveless or violent marriage, she was trapped; she had no money of her own and no career.
It was still unusual for women to go to university, especially working class women. Most left school and went straight into work until they married. Secondary schools - even grammar schools - prepared girls for this life: lessons were given in cookery, household management, darning, sewing and even how to iron an shirt properly. Girls were trained to look after their husband, their children and the house.
There was no central heating; the downstairs rooms were heated by coal fires and then later, after the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968, by coke or gas fires. Upstairs the heating was provided by calor gas or paraffin stoves and electric fires. During the winter it was common for ice to form on the INSIDE of the windows! Night-time routine was hot water bottles in the beds and undressing downstairs in the warm. Thick dressing gowns and slippers were essentials.
Dinner would be on the table ready and waiting for the man of the house on his return from work. Housework and the care of children was considered woman’s work so the man would expect the house to be clean and tidy, meal ready, children fed and washed and his clothes all ready for the next day at work.
Anybody who looks back to the fifties with fondness really do need to clean their rose tinted specs!!
Very few women worked after getting married; they stayed at home to raise the children and keep house. The man was considered the head of the household in all things; mortgages, legal documents, bank accounts. Only the family allowance was paid directly to the mother. Should a woman find herself in a loveless or violent marriage, she was trapped; she had no money of her own and no career.
It was still unusual for women to go to university, especially working class women. Most left school and went straight into work until they married. Secondary schools - even grammar schools - prepared girls for this life: lessons were given in cookery, household management, darning, sewing and even how to iron an shirt properly. Girls were trained to look after their husband, their children and the house.
There was no central heating; the downstairs rooms were heated by coal fires and then later, after the Clean Air Acts of 1956 and 1968, by coke or gas fires. Upstairs the heating was provided by calor gas or paraffin stoves and electric fires. During the winter it was common for ice to form on the INSIDE of the windows! Night-time routine was hot water bottles in the beds and undressing downstairs in the warm. Thick dressing gowns and slippers were essentials.
Dinner would be on the table ready and waiting for the man of the house on his return from work. Housework and the care of children was considered woman’s work so the man would expect the house to be clean and tidy, meal ready, children fed and washed and his clothes all ready for the next day at work.
Islay, you forgot to mention that wifey had taken her pinny off, put a ribbon in her hair and forgot about all her 'inconsequential' problems of the day and focussed on making sure her husbands wellbeing was the focus.
I agree to some extent with JNO, cyber-bullying is a new anaethem that didn't exist when I was growing up. What I hear and read is deeply worrying.
I agree to some extent with JNO, cyber-bullying is a new anaethem that didn't exist when I was growing up. What I hear and read is deeply worrying.
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