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From: "Joan Zorn" <>
Subject: Re: The past in ourselves
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 23:08:56 +0100
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More additions!
My sister and I used to heat pennies on the range and use them to make
peepholes in the frost on the window panes.
Didn't wear coms, but does anyone else remember liberty bodices, with the
rubber buttons to keep up the stockings, usually black? and the stockings
used to wrinkle round the ankles and woe betide you if you fell and holed
the knee! Then you had to darn the hole.
I miss making cottage cheese with the sour milk, or using it for scones
etc...these days milk only seems to go bad, not sour.
I remember a friend's family didn't get electricity to their Lancashire
cottage until the late '50s. Her elderly aunt would sit in the dark rather
than switch on the light....in case the electricity ran down her arm!!!
Remember when gas appliances were adapted to run on North Sea gas? An
elderly couple I knew insisted that their gas lights were adapted as
well....they hadn't connected to the electricity supply even then!

Joan
Hampshire UK

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ZORN Anywhere
----- Original Message -----
From: Mary Voller <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: The past in ourselves


> I too can add to that.
> We used to have "Jack Frost" on the window panes and were in trouble if we
> melted little round holes with our finger tips in case we broke the
windows.
> Children wore combinations to keep out the cold and gaiters over our socks
> and shoes.
> After the war I went to stay with my cousin who had moved to a little
> village in Dorset. No electric light until my father wired them up. They
> had their water pumped by hand at the kitchen sink from the well in the
> garden. To keep the well at working level they had to pump it, by hand
> again, from the village well up the street. All this with a young baby,
> having moved out of a town. What privation! And of course a privy in the
> garden.
>
> When I was first married - 1960, I looked forward in the winter to the
> washing freezing as it dried more quickly. We couldn't afford a fridge so
> in the summer the milk bottles went in a pail of water in a cool place.
We
> made cheese if it turned. This was usually at blackcurrant time and the
> combination of them with unsalted cottage cheese is wonderful.
> Yes I can remember the 'rag and bone' man and he used to live in a small
> stone hut I believe and controlled the sluices to Lodmoor Marsh at
Weymouth.
>
> Mary ()
> in beautiful Dorset
>
> Research Interests:
> Cornwall PANTER
> Devon CROCKER, DENNER, HURD, PANTER, SATCHWELL
> Dorset BETTS, GOLLOP, HART, NEWMAN,TIZARD and WOODWARD
> Somerset HART, STOATE
>
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