Back in time for tea.

[Nanto2girls]

Did any of you watch this. Don't want to say too much,some of you might watch it on catch up,or may have recorded it.
I will say, if i had been around then,i would be a lot slimmer.
It started in 1918.

[Gemini]

Very interesting yes Nan2.
Not the most appetising looking of foods!

[Oma]

Yes I watched it too , I watched the last series where they started from the 1800 too ,love these kind of programmes , Oh but the food

[Mimi]

Love these sort of programmes. that during
At the start date 1918 my dad would have been 1 , it got me thinking of what huge changes he would have seen in his life time . I can remember him telling me that often they would have had bread and lard as a meal and the man of the house had the biggest portion of food . They had to keep the 'bread winner ' fit , they could afford to have him unable to work as there would be no money.
Its a very interesting programme .

[Gemini]

The imprint of one slice of bacon pressed onto each slice of bread, then the actual bacon going to the man of the house was a good example of that, Mimi.

[Shemadee]

My mum used to say that sometimes there was no food at all and often my gran would say she had already eaten or wasn’t hungry! Always enough for my grandad to get kailied and get handy with the buckle end of his belt. My mum used to lock my cousins, who came to live with them on the death of their mother, in an outhouse and go out and face off the grandad. Always amazed them that she often succeeded.

[Gemini]

Amazing lady Shem xx

[Daisy]

Definitely different times, and most of them weren't 'the good old days'.

My mother always hated Saturdays because that was the day her step-father would spend the day in the pub, and go home roaring drunk and looking for trouble. If there was any 'good food' (like bacon) her mother always gave it to my mother's younger brother, because he was 'sickly', but I suspect she had to do that while 'the man of the house' was at the pub.

I can remember having bread and dripping for tea, or jam pieces - and we weren't poor by some standards. My dad was always in work and never went to the pub to spend his wages.

[Daisy]

Did anyone else watch Episode 3 tonight - the 60s?

It's the first one I've seen, and it was very interesting. I thought the fashions were a bit understated for the era, but it was really interesting, and of course within 'our' life times. I remember the first time I went to a Chinese restaurant with friends. I didn't have enough money for a meal and I just had green tea, but even that was different.

[Gemini]

We watched it an enjoyed it, especially the late 60's when I was a teenager so could remember more. I was surprised that the majority of families still didn't have fridge by the late 60's. OH and I , who are the same age, said neither of us could remember not having a fridge. It would have been big event to get the first one so unless we were tiny we would have remembered. I will ask mum today if she remembers when we got ours!

[Daisy]

Gem - we didn't have a fridge until I was about 17. Even my parents' grocery shop didn't have any refrigeration. I didn't know anybody who had a shower in their bathroom (if they had a bathroom!)

[Gemini]

it's interesting isn't it Daisy?!
I know we had a tv from me being a few months old. Dad had a small football pools win, and they bought a telly, a dolls pram for me, and couple of other things. I remember a single tub washer with a wringer, and they still had that when I left home. I don't remember them getting it, and I presume before that our clothes must have been hand washed. No memory of being fridelgess though!
I hope mum remembers!
I remember getting the phone when I was about 16. Great excitment!

[Daisy]

I can remember getting our first tv - it wasn't long before the Coronation in 1953. I still had a single tub washer with wringer when my DS1 was born. We got a tumble dryer round about then which was more useful than an automatic washing machine - it's easy to get clothes wet, much harder to get them dry and I hated (still do) wet clothes hanging round the house.

When my dad died we'd just moved to a fairly isolated village, and my mum was quite nervous about being there on her own - no street lights, fields and farmland behind us etc. I got a phone installed and paid for it. I don't know which was then more scary for mum - the phone ringing or not having it! But at least if I was out late I could ring her and reassure her.

For the first time we had central heating - it was a new-build bungalow intended for mum and dad's retirement. It was a coke-fuelled boiler which had to be lit and then carefully filled with coke from a little hole in the top. If the wind was in a certain direction it would always go out. Then you had to empty it handful by handful and start again! The winter of 1963 was a complete nightmare! I'd get in from work and find the boiler must have gone out 8 hours previously!