[BITList] aprons and home economics

[Malcolm]

Where I lived all the houses had gas lighting until 1950. Only the pubs and
our house had electric light because I lived in a house that was also a
bakers shop with a large bakery at the back of it. That had three machines
that was run by electricity. The same goes for toilets the pubs and our
house had water toilets, the rest of the normal houses had muck box's until
1956. It was a long time before my mother got used to the idea that I wanted
to be a marine engineer like my grandfather Henderson than a baker and not
go into the family business.

 

Malcolm.

 

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Subject: [BITList] aprons and home economics

 

Hugh,

 

aprons ok, wood burning stoves n chickens no; clearly the article was
written for US consumption.

I don't recall seeing house wives going to the shops in their aprons and
never saw a shawl, head scarf only if it was cold or raining.

on the 4th floor with 5 families and 2 toilets per landing is
unimaginable...............with gas lighting! sounds like the 19th century
not the 20th. 

are the buildings still there?

I guess everyone knew their neighbours intimately. 

 

Incidentally, I sometimes watch a tv program, "house hunters international",
a 30 year old guy from san diego, ca. decided to go to glasgow university
and was searching for a suitable flat not too far from the university. his
budget was $1200/month, I was surprised what a pleasant and comfortable
place he could find in glasgow for that amount.

I was also surprised how pleasant and 'cosmopolitan' glasgow appeared [I've
never having been]. The program returned to see how he was going on after he
had been living there some months - he absolutely loved it, couldn't get
enough of it.

high praise from some one who was used to the sunshine, lollipops and
rainbows of california.

 

 
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From: HUGH <mailto:chakdara at btinternet.com>  

Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 10:17 AM

To: BitList <mailto:bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com>  

Subject: Re: [BITList] home economics

 

Colin,

 

I remember the aprons, but not the wood burning stove and the chickens, etc.
We were top flat (4 up), 5 families per landing, two toilets per landing
(no, I don't know which toilet the odd ones out used), gas lighting and
cooking, coal fires. But the women all wore aprons, and often a shawl and a
head scarf when out shopping, since all the shops were within walking
distance. I don't recall my tears ever being wiped by mother's apron - "be
quiet or you'll get another one" was the closest she ever came to that, and
her best pal, Jeanie, was just as sympathetic to us. But we survived.

 

Hugh.

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