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lol i can say we never had it that bad but if the lady next door to us went to the loo the same time as us the we could hear everything as her loo backed on to ours

thats the one a big cast iron system on the wall with a long pipe leading to the loo and a metal chain with a wooden hand grip at the bottom my son always looks at me gone out when i shout pull the chain what chain he says we dont have one we have a button on the top of the loo i do remember...

pete i think the loo thing was me i wonted to know if anybody remembered the tissue loo paper we had when we were kids the izzal loo paper you can get on the carbolic website and yes i had a few spliters on my bum from the wooden loos seats and i do remember one very cold winter the pipes in...

pete i know what you mean by izzel paper ive just been on the carbolic soap company website and they have the izzal paper there and i do remember it here is the link if anybody is interested www.carbolicsoap.com

ray i have just sat here and howled with laughter the family thought i had lost the plot we were lucky we lived in a victorian house that had its own outside loo in the yard all the houses in our street did but i now have this mental image of 5 boys in the loo together taking turns and then...

hi ray bless you we had proper loo paper in our outside loo but i am with you on going to the loo after dark our loo was at the end of our garden and there was no way i was going after dark i used to make my dad come with me and stand outside the door with his storm lamp lol there was spiders...

hi pete nope youve lost me on that one whats izzal paper

oh yea come rain or shine you were out there on the playground doing some form of pe and then off to the showers and if you got caught haveing a cat lick you were thrown back in windsor soap or no windsor soap lol

hi jean yes i do remember on the odd occiasion the box on the wall being empty and yes the soap wouldnt lather you could be there all day and still get no suds and it was no good for getting the paint off your hands if you had been painting at school because you couldnt get any suds oh happy...

lol yea thats the one it was like using sand paper and not very effective

dose anybody remember the bars of white soap we used to have in the loos at school and the tissue paper loo roll that used to take 3 layers of skin off your bum everytime you used it

hi mossy bless your wife lol at least you know you will be clean yes it is hard to find carbolic soap in the shops you used to be able to get it in the very old fashioned die hard, hard wear stores but unfortuneatly they are a dying breed and not many of them about however i was awear you could...

if i remember rightly if you walked up preston rd right to the end turned right there used to be a row of shops a laundrett and a ladies clothes shop both owned by the same people and i think a small newsagents anyway if you stood infront of the shops and looked right you could see all saints...

hi astonian my dad used to drink in the black egale and the devenshire pub also, many moons ago when we were kids he was a bit of a caricature once you met my dad you never forgot him lol i aslo remember all saints hopspital and that the paitents would escape from there often oh happy days lol

hi printmeister i went to founry road school between 1975 and 1881 i do rember the headmaster mr griffiths he left about 12 months before we did i dont remember mrs underwood but i do remember a mrs packwood oldish lady think she was more like a teaching assistant i think my mom has a pic of the...

hi all was wondering if anybody had some memorys or pics of winson green and handsworth. i grew up in winson green on the handsworth new road between 1970 and 1981 when we moved to tamworth i recently traveled through winson green green and handsworth on the 101 bus with my older sister when we...

mmmmmmmmmm carbolic soap and coaltar soap they have such a clean smell to them brings back fond childhood memorys did manage to find to coal tar soap in boots of all places my son called me strange and said the soap stinks and he wasnt washing with that soap lol kids today dont know there born lol

hi all as a child my mother would feed me liver and onions even though i hated the stuff even to this day i carnt stand the smell of liver and i always tell my mother that she menatly scared me lol i would never eat fish in any shape or form not even fish fingers but now if i find a nice bit...

hi o c dead mans pennies where pennies placed on the eyes of the dead as a payment for the ferry man so you wont get stuck between this world and the next another bit of usless information lol celia

chocolate concrete mmmmmmmm was memorys it brings back :-) i work as a catering assistant in a kitchen catering for wearhouse staff last week our chef made chocolate concrete with pink custard or green mint custard what happy memorys it bought back for me and we couldnt keep up with the orders...