Trip Down That Ole Memory Lane ,Did You

Bobbisox1 | 21:08 Sat 01st May 2021 | ChatterBank

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Remember seeing a milk bottle on the table?
A butter dish?
Cheese with a lid on?
Oilcloth tablecloth?

A conversation with Mr B
I don’t remember any of this,was it a Northern thing?

Only In Scotland . . .

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Togo

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Polished Lino floor with a rag rug on it. Deadly now but an invitation to indoor tobogganing for a lad. Red cardinal polish on the front step or a donkey stone. The smell of the black lead polish on the cast iron range. The smell of the kilns being fired and the clatter of horses hooves on cobbles. Grandma's dolly tub on bricks with the gas ring under it, no elfin...

08:50 Sun 02nd May 2021

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Jackdaw33

Not the oilcloth but the other three I certainly remember.

Bobbisox1

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I don’t JD, we had a pantry for milk and cheese

Theland

Yes all of the above.

johnny.5

I still use a butter dish

pastafreak

Milk bottle...yes. It was an American thing. Milk was always delivered...we had a metal milk box on our back door step.

Jackdaw33

So did we, but they were put on the table at meal times.

johnny.5

and a tea cosy

Paigntonian

Yes to all. Don't think they were really a Northern thing. Still use a butter dish.

Jackdaw33

If we had visitors the milk would be poured into a jug.

Mamyalynne

Milk jug on the table.

Butter dish,yes - still use daily.

A cheese dome, not used often.

Place mats or a linen cloth for Sundays.

Bobbisox1

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A knitted tea cosy ?

Theland

We always had saucers, now we use mugs and don't own any.

Jackdaw33

I have seen oilcloth on the table in other people's houses but we never had one.

brian j john

gas meters that took a 2/6d coin , (half a crown) , tin bath in front of the fire

brian j john

Loose Tea , brewed in a pot , no teabags then

Bobbisox1

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Now Brian, that I do remember,getting the Dickie comb raked through my waist length hair every Sunday night , ouch !

brian j john

my father used to give me half a crown pocket money every week and told me to save it in the money box , i was 12 years old before i found out it was the gas meter .