Down memory lane

I enjoyed that. The candlewick bedspread made me feel very nostalgic.

We used to pick the bits from the candlewick bedspread our mum used to go mad. I couldn't wear the trendy summer footwear at the time. I never liked a slide don't like heights.

Love the candlewick bedspread.

When our current bedspread wears out I'm going to get a candlewick one. I presume somewhere will stock them still.

As a child I remember going down to the local shop and struggling back with two gallon cans of paraffin. They were so heavy they cut into my fingers. We had paraffin heaters for some time after the coal fires, thought they were terribly modern.

Chestnut

As a child I remember going down to the local shop and struggling back with two gallon cans of paraffin. They were so heavy they cut into my fingers. We had paraffin heaters for some time after the coal fires, thought they were terribly modern.

That brings back memories! Being sent to get the paraffin. Was there any difference between the pink paraffin and the blue paraffin? I 'think' we used to get pink from local ironmonger.

I really liked paraffin heaters but you often heard in the news about them causing fires.

We had a paraffin heater in the 60s as we only had a coal fire in the livingroom and one of the 3 bedrooms. It felt like luxury when the paraffin heater was moved from room to room before bedtime to take the chill off.

Then one evening our elderly neighbour had a serious accident with her paraffin heater and spent many weeks in hospital with her legs badly burned. She’d carried the heater while it was lit and the paraffin sloshed out and set her nightie on fire. That was the end of our heater. My Dad decided they were too dangerous and got rid of it.

We certainly never carried ours, while lit.

I loved my Dr Scholl sandals, they were so comfortable. Candlewick.......one for Bargain Hunt, so retro!!!!!!

We had a fire caused by a paraffin heater when I was a child. It was standing in the bath ( which was a lidded affair in the kitchen . Above was the pulley full of washing. A nylon stocking floated down and caught fire catching a towel on the back of the door. Mum & grandma put it out as thecfire brigade arrived but grandma lost her eyelashes & brows and had badly burned fingertip. Mum , who was pregnant with my brother, sustained a burn on her arm and the scar was always a reminder of the danger of fires.

Redhead56 A wave here from another candlewick picker. I also used to pick the woodchips off of the wallpaper. My mum didn't appreciate my efforts!!

I really don't know how we all survived the 1950s and 1960s with so many dangerous things going on. We lived on the 3rd floor of a shared Victorian house, using paraffin heaters, and of course no smoke alarms. I understand the hot water boilers were also terribly dangerous and we had no carbon monoxide alarms either.

What a story Pecs

PECS you poor family how awful.
Today the H&S police would have a meltdown.
We did survive..
Paraffin heaters, remember one in the hall, you never forgot the smell of Esso Blue..
Nylon, quilted dressing gowns, Nylon nightdresses, think I remember Nylon sheets too.
Also I remember a hot water heater in the kitchen over the sink.

Also I remember a hot water heater in the kitchen over the sink. oh an Ascot, my mum craved one rather than boiling up pans of water on the cooker as she didn't like the kitchen coal stove. Finally had an immersion heater installed, she was in heaven.

Had them all except the Scholls - my feet were too thin for them ?

My daughter has just bought a vintage eiderdown for her new flat, she's using the blankets I used as a little girl, white wool ones with a pink and blue stripe at the edges. A candle wick bedspread is next on her list, Chums sell them but some saving has to be done first apparently.
She says she's fed up of changing her duvet cover and can layer blankets and use her hot water bottle to cope with her drastically reduced central heating thermostat.

This was the tea tray we shared today, the tray cloth and tablecloth were my Granny’s and probably nearly a hundred years old.
I think my daughter is a bit of a throwback.

Those blooming Record of Achievement folders!! We were sent hundreds and they were a nightmare to store.

I really don't know how we all survived the 1950s and 1960s with so many dangerous things going on.

Not everyone did survive.
The news reports of fires caused by paraffin heaters often stated that children had died.

LtEve I have a couple of embroidered tray cloths EXACTLY like the one in your picture! It belonged to my aunt I believe but may have been my grandmother's, unfortunately I'm not sure. They really are identical to yours.

Coastpath

Redhead56 A wave here from another candlewick picker. I also used to pick the woodchips off of the wallpaper. My mum didn't appreciate my efforts!!

We got in terrible trouble for that.

So bad a sin was it, that we weren't allowed to watch 'The Banana Splits' that week until one of us confessed.

We were beside ourselves - I can remember running away and crying and crying over it.

It was my dad who had done it, as he was thinking about decorating and picked a few bits off to see how easy (or hard) it would be.

We never had a paraffin heater, my parents wouldn't have one due to the fire risk. That was a very sad story from the previous poster.