THINGS YOU DON'T SEE ANYMORE (Part 2)

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Mon 31 Mar, 2014 12:18 am

Johnny39 wrote: Jogon wrote: Ah Scarboro'...As a kid, being told it was a "sea fret" gave a magical excitement to fog/drizzle etc -[edited for content] weather on Holidays.Going there still excites me, but Whitby, Brid, Bob Hoods Bay and Brid + Scarboro are things I don't see anymore We've had the sea fret for about three days now Jogon and it's been bl---y cold with it. It's really annoying to see football matches and race meetings taking place inland on the TV with spectators walking around in shirtsleeves and you're asking the wife if the central heating is still on. Just watched the weather forecast and we appear to be stuck with it for a day or two more yet before it clears. They were also talking about dust from the Sahara settling in some parts of the country - Egyptian snow, that's all we need. Hi johnny39. Talking of central heating I've had mine on since at least September (apart from a low night setting). It never seems to have been warm enough to turn the heating down much, never mind off! To think that as a kid I thought nothing of sleeping in a room that had the inside of a window covered in ice on a cold morning! Thankfully that's something I don't see anymore.

Johnny39 · Post by **Johnny39** » Mon 31 Mar, 2014 12:56 pm

Leodian wrote: Johnny39 wrote: Jogon wrote: Ah Scarboro'...As a kid, being told it was a "sea fret" gave a magical excitement to fog/drizzle etc -[edited for content] weather on Holidays.Going there still excites me, but Whitby, Brid, Bob Hoods Bay and Brid + Scarboro are things I don't see anymore We've had the sea fret for about three days now Jogon and it's been bl---y cold with it. It's really annoying to see football matches and race meetings taking place inland on the TV with spectators walking around in shirtsleeves and you're asking the wife if the central heating is still on. Just watched the weather forecast and we appear to be stuck with it for a day or two more yet before it clears. They were also talking about dust from the Sahara settling in some parts of the country - Egyptian snow, that's all we need. Hi johnny39. Talking of central heating I've had mine on since at least September (apart from a low night setting). It never seems to have been warm enough to turn the heating down much, never mind off! To think that as a kid I thought nothing of sleeping in a room that had the inside of a window covered in ice on a cold morning! Thankfully that's something I don't see anymore. I certainly do remember those days Leo. For the first ten years of my life I thought all eiderdowns came in khaki with sleeves and brass buttons! We used to put lit candles in the window to keep the frost off, on Fridays the neighbours thought we were Jewish.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Mon 31 Mar, 2014 1:21 pm

Leodian wrote: [ To think that as a kid I thought nothing of sleeping in a room that had the inside of a window covered in ice on a cold morning! Thankfully that's something I don't see anymore. Join the Club Leodian - from the age of three until my early twenties I lived in a top floor flat in Arctic ilkley, near the Moors.It was an old terrace house and the only heating was the sitting room coal fire, which belched dense smoke whenever there was any kind of breeze or wind - smoke I might add in which you could see the flecks of soot. The insides of the bedroom windows were covered in thick ice with "Jack Frost" patterns, and in those days the only sheets were ice cold cotton ones. I honestly don't know how we survived the Winters - oh, and the coal was in the cellar four floors down, as were the "shilling" meters for gas and electricity. The only hot water was from one of those little white "Ascot" gas heaters over the kitchen sink.Recently, when I was in my sixties, the house and the one next door were converted into six luxury flats for sale, and there was a public open viewing day on the Saturday. I couldn't resist going in to look, and had the strangest feeling to see a lovely cheery imitation coal gas fire in the lounge and central heating radiators everywhere. All the ancient and unusable fireplaces (more howling gales) in every room had been plastered over. My front bedroom had been made into an open luxury kitchen, strange and I know that although these are all the rage nowadays I certainly don't want to watch TV in my lounge while sniffing and viewing boiling sprouts etc etc - still, many people choose this layout now - to each their own as the saying goes.

Bugblatter · Post by **Bugblatter** » Tue 01 Apr, 2014 12:23 am

That brought back memories. We had coats on the bed in winter and I remember us kids getting the luxury of a hot water bottle each!

zip55 · Post by **zip55** » Tue 01 Apr, 2014 12:39 am

I used to sleep with my dressing gown on.

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 01 Apr, 2014 1:37 pm

Bugblatter wrote: That brought back memories. We had coats on the bed in winter and I remember us kids getting the luxury of a hot water bottle each! And the Eiderdown - bedrooms did have old gas fires but took a lot of "shillin's int' meter to keep em going". And water pipes freezing up in the loft too.

Jogon · Post by **Jogon** » Tue 01 Apr, 2014 10:50 pm

This all takes me back a bit.Eiderdown, candlewick etc. Blankets sheets, none of your fancy duvets back then.Blue striped Pyjams as well.Plus some coats on top. And yes there was ice inside the window.

stutterdog · Post by **stutterdog** » Tue 01 Apr, 2014 11:06 pm

Jogon wrote: This all takes me back a bit.Eiderdown, candlewick etc. Blankets sheets, none of your fancy duvets back then.Blue striped Pyjams as well.Plus some coats on top. And yes there was ice inside the window. I don't know if Coal Bricks have been mentioned. They were popular in the 50's. I think they were made of a mixture of coal dust and cement! Not much heat in 'em either!We didn't have the luxury of a hot water bottle, a hot oven plate made of cast iron wrapped in an old sheet kept our feet warm! Old coats on the bed.

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 01 Apr, 2014 11:17 pm

Jogon wrote: This all takes me back a bit.Eiderdown, candlewick etc. Blankets sheets, none of your fancy duvets back then.Blue striped Pyjams as well.Plus some coats on top. And yes there was ice inside the window. Soft flannelette sheets in winter, plain cotton in summer to keep cool!

Post by **chameleon** » Tue 01 Apr, 2014 11:20 pm

stutterdog wrote: Jogon wrote: This all takes me back a bit.Eiderdown, candlewick etc. Blankets sheets, none of your fancy duvets back then.Blue striped Pyjams as well.Plus some coats on top. And yes there was ice inside the window. I don't know if Coal Bricks have been mentioned. They were popular in the 50's. I think they were made of a mixture of coal dust and cement! Not much heat in 'em either!We didn't have the luxury of a hot water bottle, a hot oven plate made of cast iron wrapped in an old sheet kept our feet warm! Old coats on the bed. Large lumps resembling an over-sized block of corned beef out of its tin - but black of course. Remember being told what they were made of and got a telling-off for breaking up lumps of coal to make dust; too much cement = virtual explosion when burnt