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From: "Betty Forster" <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Washing and personal hygeine
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 10:40:42 +0100
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I remember that Thornton Heath (just outside London, between Streatham and
Croydon) still boasted a public baths in the early 1960s. I also remember
visiting a house in Kennington (near the Oval Cricket Ground) in 1960 or 61,
which only had gas lights. There was no electricity in the street.
Betty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Irene" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [Lon] Washing and personal hygeine


> I can remember mum boiling up the bath water in the copper before they got
> the Ascot. One thing Pat saw some stats awhile back that said the English
> used six times the amount of soap on average than the French did :-). I
> can still remember my aunt and family having to use the public baths in
> Bermondsey
> area when I was a kid around the late 40's or early 50's. The public
houses
> built in Carshalton that a lot of bombed out Londoners moved to after WWII
> didn't have bathrooms either there was a bath in the kitchen with a drop
> down table top. The council added on modular bathrooms at the back in I
> think not until at least the 1960's
>
> Regards Irene
>
>
>
> Hugs Irene
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat Stedman" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:12 AM
> Subject: [Lon] Washing and personal hygeine
>
>
> > Being a pom I feel that I can say this....
> >
> > Poms are like aspros...go near water and they disolve :-)
> >
> > I remember as a child that we only bathed weekly in the bathtub. That
> > was enough especially in winter if we were even lucky enough to be able
> > to get water thru the pipes!! It was freezing in our upstairs bathroom.
> > Much nicer in the kitchen having a tub in the kitchen sink with all four
> > burners of the gas stove going full bore to heat the room up.
> > Well, our ancestors would have felt much the same I reckon and without
> > hot water on tap and nice gas heating the chore would have been a much
> > less pleasant prospect than it is these days!!
> > Thing is, if everyone smells the same you tend not to notice so much
> >
> >
>
>
>
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