Hygeine 1950s - 2020s

ps that was in the late '60s to late80s.

Fennel

Artaylar - I remember the slipper bathss in Hull. There were 2 - one on Hessle Road and one on Beverley road.

Oh wow Fennel, that's just amazing.

The one we used was on the Bev Road, we rented a flat on Park Grove, just off Bev Road, one of 4 flats in the same house.

I've got very happy memories of my time living in Hull.

I am now back living in the 1950’s. Our boiler has broken down three times in three days and despite an engineer coming out, it looks like it will be condemned.

So, no heating and no hot water for us, and it was still -4 at 2pm this afternoon! ?

We’re managing to keep warm with the open fire and a couple of fan heaters along with thermals, but keeping ourselves clean is tricker. We managed to bathe on Friday evening in a window of the water heating working but we’ve had no HW since. We’ve been having ‘bird baths’ by boiling the kettle but I can’t keep doing that, I want a proper bath! I’m not sure what we’ll do as it’s likely to be some time before a new boiler can be installed.

I might see if any local hotels are open and book just one night so we can bath and shower.

Oh, dear, Sue. If you’re over sixty you’re classed as ‘vulnerable’ (which we learned last week when we had two power cuts). Therefore you should be a priority and receive speedy treatment, either from your independent provider or with a service agreement.

They sent the boiler engineer out asap when I said we were pensioners, Nannagarra, so I can’t fault them for that. The issue now is how quickly a new boiler can fitted. Why do these things always happen at weekends, too?

I’m keeping my fingers crossed you’ll soon have a new boiler fitted, Sue.
Do you know anyone who’ll lend you their touring caravan to put on your drive in the meantime? You’d have somewhere warm, a shower and a loo, a cosy bed plus a kitchen area!

We don’t, Nannagarra, unfortunately. We’re a step closer to a resolution as it seems that it’s the fuel oil that’s the problem, not the boiler. I’m now waiting on yet another chap coming out to test the fuel system itself.

I had some good times in Hull too Artaylar as student nurses several of us rented flats in a house on Spring Bank West. There was a lot of moving about of male clothing when our mothers visited as I remember. Hull Fair always sticks in my mind, a great experience.

OMG I was so happy to get out of Hull when I was 18 but then I suppose if you are related to half the people in the city and many in the licensing trade you had a different experience!!! Couldn't move without being asked _"Oh are you so and so's daughter, granddaughter, niece etc?"

How I have enjoyed reading all your precious memories. I can recall living in the first floor of a shared house in Hornsey, and we shared the bathroom with the family downstairs. A bath was had only once a week (my Dad loved Lifeboy carbolic soap, and had a wonderful head of hair to the end!), and Drene shampoo diluted in a jug. On the days between a bath, I would sit on the wooden draining board with my feet in the Belfast sink while Mum washed and dried me. To this day, I hate Belfast sinks! During my married life we lived in a cottage with only one cold water tap and an indoor w.c. We boiled water on the gas stove to wash every day, and once a week went round to my Mum's house for a bath. This lasted for a year before we had the improvements to the house carried out, but my children remember those Thursday baths with great pleasure!