Your Kitchen Through Time

I bought my first freezer from Bejam too. It was a huge chest one and we had great fun going round Bejam buying stuff to put in it.

And, I subscribed to Home and Freezer Digest which I loved.

We went frequently when we first married, mainly to look at the full scale houses the builders used to construct.

We first saw a freezer there and I was really taken by the idea. It stayed with me and some years later, six months before DD was born we went and bought a big chest freezer from Belam, and I have never regretted it.

When my mother came to stay after DD was born. I had made up all the meals for the week she was with us. All she had to do, was get them out and put them in the oven (it was before microwaves) and cook the veg.

She was so impressed she went straight home nd bought one for herself.

I’ve still got my autochop grannynannywanny.

My mother had an attachment for her Kenwood Chef that peeled new potatoes - or rather just rubbed the skin off. It was some years before I realised that you didn’t need to peel or scrape them - better not to - but she’d never have been convinced.

I still remember the washing machine you had to pull out, fill with water, and put clothes through the attached mangle. But at the time I dare say she was relatively lucky to have that.

We had one of those tea dispensers Grannynannywanny .
Allira, did your mum's single tub washing machine, with mangle, have a "paddle" in the top lid to agitate the clothes? My mum also had one and donated it to us when we married in 1961. It was great, but we did have quite a flood once when opening the tap to empty it!
DH and I visited the Ideal Home Exhibition before we got married and bought our G Plan Dining room furniture, table, chairs and sideboard. Also a 3 door G Plan wardrobe. All still going strong, and looking good.

I can remember my mother using a dolly tub and a mangle, then came the single tub washing machine, heated by gas underneath. It had a mangle at the top.

Then came the twin tub washing machine - a a wonderful innovation! Our very first fridge then arrived which sat in the large larder.

I had a twin tub years ago, very useful when there were two lots of nappies to wash.

We were astonished when my brother and sister-in-law bought a dishwasher, the first we'd seen. They'd been to stay with relatives in Canada and were very impressed by all the modern appliances over there.

Grannynannywanny
I had one of those choppers, they were quite hard on the hand but effective.

The pressure cooker. Terrified us all!

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In the 1950's my parents bought a 'state of the art' spin drier they'd seen at the Ideal Home Exhibition, they thought it would make Monday washing day less of a chore.

My job was to sit on it to stop it from flinging itself round the kitchen floor and to stop the lid from flying open and gorging the spinning washing out. As the water gushed out of a spout at the bottom, the kitchen got flooded.

Not long after the old mangle was re-instated and the spinner, after being stripped of worthwhile parts, got carted off on the back of the rag-a-bone cart.

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I remember around 1970 my parents came home from the Modern Homes Exhibition with an Autochop. It looked very efficient at the exhibition but my Mum couldn’t use it due to her arthritic hands. It lay for ages in a kitchen cupboard till eventually my Dad used it to chop his pipe tobacco .

We also had wall mounted tea caddy in the 60’s for dispensing dry tea.

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I remember going to the Ideal Home exhibition at Earl's court a very long time ago. I don't even remember any of the exhibits. I do remember that useless potato peeler thing though, my mum had one.

I remember all those K-Tel ads for kitchen gadgets that never worked.

As an adult I was never one for gadgets and I'm still not really.
I seem to manage with the basics.

My son has a machine that makes pasta and sorbets- at least that's what he uses it for but all the small working parts need cleaning so not sure it's that labour saving!