THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 2)

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Sat 14 Dec, 2013 7:02 pm

Hi Leodion Our range did not heat water so it was endless kettles on the gas stove to put in the tin bath.For all that i would not change my childhood for anything .

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Sun 15 Dec, 2013 4:26 pm

tilly wrote: Hi Leodion Our range did not heat water so it was endless kettles on the gas stove to put in the tin bath.For all that i would not change my childhood for anything . Flypaper in shops in the warm Summers we had back in the 40's and 50's! There was a shop at the bottom of Gloucester Ave. Armley Rd run by Mr Wilde in those days. He didn't change his flypapers too often and they were covered in bluebottles , hanging form the ceiling!

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Sun 15 Dec, 2013 5:00 pm

stutterdog wrote: tilly wrote: Hi Leodion Our range did not heat water so it was endless kettles on the gas stove to put in the tin bath.For all that i would not change my childhood for anything . Flypaper in shops in the warm Summers we had back in the 40's and 50's! There was a shop at the bottom of Gloucester Ave. Armley Rd run by Mr Wilde in those days. He didn't change his flypapers too often and they were covered in bluebottles , hanging form the ceiling! Hi stutterdog i will not say yum yum to that.LOL.

Dalehelms · Post by **Dalehelms** » Sun 15 Dec, 2013 11:12 pm

My son has asked me for a hearth set for his Christmas present this year. I hope he sees this thread on SL.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Mon 16 Dec, 2013 6:07 pm

Johnny39 wrote: shutthatdoor wrote: I think they were called "Hearth Sets". A little brush, shovel and poker, possibly also a toasting fork, that hung on a thingy and sat beside the coal fire. In fact, the last Dog Grate I saw was in an old cellar. Did anyone elses Dad "draw the fire" by holding an open page of the old Yorkshire Evening Post (Big style of yore) across the fireplace until it scorched and burst into flames? Worked though! I remember the Hearth Sets "Shutthatdoor" very well, we called them "Tidys" and yes I well remember the fire being drawn with the evening paper and if it didn't catch fire it was usually badly scorched. Some people were lucky enough to have purpose made "drawers" made of metal, rather like a medieval shield and boy did they work! All these things disappeared with the introduction of smokeless zones and the abolition of coal fires. Are they called "Companion sets"?

tilly · Post by **tilly** » Mon 16 Dec, 2013 8:49 pm

Lilysmum wrote: Johnny39 wrote: shutthatdoor wrote: I think they were called "Hearth Sets". A little brush, shovel and poker, possibly also a toasting fork, that hung on a thingy and sat beside the coal fire. In fact, the last Dog Grate I saw was in an old cellar. Did anyone elses Dad "draw the fire" by holding an open page of the old Yorkshire Evening Post (Big style of yore) across the fireplace until it scorched and burst into flames? Worked though! I remember the Hearth Sets "Shutthatdoor" very well, we called them "Tidys" and yes I well remember the fire being drawn with the evening paper and if it didn't catch fire it was usually badly scorched. Some people were lucky enough to have purpose made "drawers" made of metal, rather like a medieval shield and boy did they work! All these things disappeared with the introduction of smokeless zones and the abolition of coal fires. Are they called "Companion sets"? Hi LilysmumThats what i know them by although i never remember us having one in our house in the fiftys.I wonder if they came out later than that we had a poker and that thing to get out the soot.It could be they were too posh for us sob sob.

shutthatdoor · Post by **shutthatdoor** » Tue 17 Dec, 2013 6:22 pm

Hi Tilly's Mum, talk about too posh, ha ha. My mates parents had a coal fire although they were well to do. Big modern marble fireplace, very nice. They had an electric fire starter, electric fire starter, (sorry, nod to the Prodigy) that must have heated up like a big curling tong or something, that you popped under the dog grate to help get the fire going. never saw one before then and never seen one since. Sure I'm not dreaming. This was the late 70's.In the late 60's early 70's my uncle worked on the coal waggons. Whenever we ordered we were always assured of an extra couple of bags. shhhh.

shutthatdoor · Post by **shutthatdoor** » Tue 17 Dec, 2013 6:23 pm

Hi Tilly, talk about too posh, ha ha. My mates parents had a coal fire although they were well to do. Big modern marble fireplace, very nice. They had an electric fire starter, electric fire starter, (sorry, nod to the Prodigy) that must have heated up like a big curling tong or something, that you popped under the dog grate to help get the fire going. never saw one before then and never seen one since. Sure I'm not dreaming. This was the late 70's.In the late 60's early 70's my uncle worked on the coal waggons. Whenever we ordered we were always assured of an extra couple of bags. shhhh.

shutthatdoor · Post by **shutthatdoor** » Tue 17 Dec, 2013 6:25 pm

Lilly, Tilly, sorry, I wish I knew what I was doing, ha.

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Tue 17 Dec, 2013 6:49 pm

Lilysmum wrote: Are they called "Companion sets"? Out of interest I asked about these in the retiring room at the court at dinnertime and 2 people also said they knew them as "Companion Sets"