Memories! (Weekly Photo Challenge – Old Fashioned)
For some reason I found it quite hard to get going on the letter ‘M’ for this weeks Alphabe- Thursday. I thought of all the places we have visited because I know you like to be transported somewhere else but I’ve shared all my ‘M’ places with you already.
My darling hubby suggested I did ‘My Favourite Things’ but somehow I couldn’t settle on what to tell you about. Then it came to me (again via that husband of mine!) and I give you one of his Memories!
We saw this on a recent visit to Beamish which is an outdoor museum in the North of England. Known as ‘The Living Museum’ it has examples of life during the Georgian, Victorian & Edwardian eras. It is certainly a ‘Must See’ place when you are up that way.You can see more photos that I took HERE
Now back to memories. When we came across this item my hubby announced that he ‘remembered having a bath in one of those!’ Apparently, when he was tiny, his family lived in a small basement flat and although he is not as old as me, they did not have a bathroom as such just an inside toilet.
He was really animated as he told me stories of bath nights. He was also quite taken back that something he had used was now a museum item! Mind you, we both remembered being able to buy broken biscuits!
Have you got a memory that is now a museum piece?
Do pop over to Jenny Matlock’s blog to see some more ‘M’s!
This post is also my entry for this week’s Post , the theme of which is ‘Old Fashioned’!
The idea of a tub outdoors sounds quite nice for the summer . . . I used to use a tub like that to wash my big labrador retriever. We currently have an outdoor shower to wash off sand from the beach.
When my father retired from the Air Force we went to live with my maternal Grandmother in a very rural area of Ohio. We stayed with her while we built a house on an adjoining piece of ground.
My Grandmother did not have running water or electricity. We bathed in a tub like that (unless we visited a relative) and used an outhouse. This was in 1969.
Ahhh…memories.
Some not quite so fine!
Thanks for a marvelous link this week.
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That sounds like a real tale of the outback there Jenny!
When we lived in Germany in the ’50s we bathed in a tub by a big old coal stove. My dad had to heat every bit of water on the stove. We shared a toilet on the landing with another family and I remember how cold it was out there in that unheated space.
Goodness! Thank heavens the modern systems came in. Many thanks for commenting!
You brought up my own memory of getting a hot bath in a similar tub which was placed in front of my Grandma’s wood burning cook stove in Wisconsin. Would have been back in the late ’40’s. My grandparents didn’t get indoor plumbing until well into the 1950’s. I can remember being fascinated with the pump by the kitchen sink that brought up ice cold well water. But I didn’t miss the outhouse when would we visit after the plumbing was updated!
Those ‘antique’ items are fun to see but not live with! Many thanks for stopping by!
My Tennessee and South Carolina ancestors would jump into one of those on Saturday night for their weekly bath. I’m so very thankful I can jump in the shower or the tub to clean up any time I wish!
Me too! Too much like hard work. Thank you so much for commenting,.
I remember enough to know that the good o;e days were not necessarily THAT good. 🙂
Too right! Totally agree! Great to see you here.
Imagine all the effort in filling it up, with enough hot water from the kettle or wherever, and then having to empty it. Gosh they needed muscle power then. Great post!
Absolutely – such hard work in those days. Many thanks for stopping by!
Most of my memories are museum pieces! LOL….
I remember 20 cent gasoline, $2,000 new cars, $25 cent bread, party line telephones….
Don’t believe you! Price rises are no guarantee of a fading brain!
We used to bath our dog in one of those!~Ames
Big dog? 🙂
We took my son to Beamish when he was little – fabulous place with the old schoolhouse and the sweetie shop.
My mum tells stories of the tin bath in the backyard too!
It is a great adventure isn’t it. Even fro the grown ups! Many thanks for visiting!
Love this old fashioned photo. Times sure have changed. : )
They certainly have & not always for the better although I prefer indoor plumbing! Great to see you here!
I think people still uses those large pans (?) to bath babies, it’s just the material might be more plastic than tin or steel. strange, I think of babies being bath in kitchen sinks in similar fashion.
thanks for sharing. have a lovely day.
It was large enough to get an average adult in! A baby would have drowned. Many thanks for popping in to comment!
Julia, I like how you captured the feel of this old cottage in your photo. Your photo brings back great memories when I lived with my husband in 1910 homestead log cabin. Two rooms, two doors, a woodstove that took up nearly half the bedroom. It’s cold here in the Idaho mountains in winter. The stove is also where we melted snow to make water in winter. Woke up one morning to a moose staring in at us through the doorway. Anyway, lots of memories. . . and now the whole homestead is a museum!
Wow! I bet it is a real joy to the visitor too! Many thanks for sharing here!
Great “M” post.
The one thing that comes to mind, is the old silver Christmas trees with the light wheel that was popular in the 60’s. We had one. I recently saw two of them at an estate auction and I was tempted….
Ah! Bring back the good old days eh!
Actually, my brain could be a museum piece.
I started to write about memorabilia, but I thought people might think that I am a hoarder–which I’m not–so I came up with something that I was more comfortable with.
Judie, hoarders never believe they are hoarders….so that means a) you truly aren’t a hoarder or b) you are a hoarder in denial. :o)
We would have loved to see you collections. Maybe next time!
We would have loved to read about your collections. Next time maybe!
no, but memories are good take on M.
well done, love the uniqueness in your post.
I love your photo and I loed reading about your memories. 🙂
Mary
Glad you liked it!
Thank you for popping over!
I had to really dig for something for M also. I like your memories.
Many thanks & it’s great to see you here!