You know what make me feel old?

[a_c_g_t]

That I remember my parents saying

"Have you been playing on the bombed building site?"

I was born in 1966 and was still playing on uncleared WW2 bomb sites in the 70's.This was in Hull which is was a bit behind the times. Does anyone else on here of may age ever play on a bombed building site or was it just Hull?

Please put me out of my misery or in fact enforce it if it was just Hull kids.

Cheers

[victorbrunswick]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

No bombed out ruins where I was but what makes me feel old is surfing the net and coming across the pic of a middle-aged man whom you remember as the three-year-old toddler who lived next door when you were growing up.

[zabadak]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

I started school in '66 and there were Anderson shelters there until the early 70s...

[Richard1978]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

My remembers bomb sites around Watford into the 1960s.

Some people still have Anderson shelters as garden sheds, there used to be one house I used to pass locally with one in the garden painted green to protect it.

[darren]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

outdoor toilets.

Getting slippers for ones birthdays or at christmas.
One thing ill never wear.

[amethyst]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

Tin Baths,Scrubbing Boards,Mangels

[darren]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

You used them all then.

Twin tubs remember them.

tin baths,scrubbing boards,mangels

[amethyst]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

You used them all then.

Twin tubs remember them.

Yes I remember them in the family, those dreaded twin tubs was awful

[Mulletino]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

My mum had the two separate floor standing machines, one to wash which was connected to the tap and another pipe into the sink, the other to spin dry, she had these big wooden tongs for fishing the hot wet clothes out of the washer to drop into the dryer, exactly like this one:



There was a plastic clip to hold them together which always came off in the spin cycle and the spin dryer would move. I'd put my toys on the lid and watch them dance.

[zabadak]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

Oh yes, we had one of those!

[darren]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

oh wow not saw one of these in a long time.
And yes i remember well my mom using these to take the clothes out of the twin tub and would use them to push the clothes down into the water.

my mum had the two separate floor standing machines, one to wash which was connected to the tap and another pipe into the sink, the other to spin dry, she had these big wooden tongs for fishing the hot wet clothes out of the washer to drop into the dryer, exactly like this one:



there was a plastic clip to hold them together which always came off in the spin cycle and the spin dryer would move. I'd put my toys on the lid and watch them dance.

[amethyst]

Re: You know what make me feel old?

Those twin tubs were hard going lifting clothes with the tongs