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NATIONAL TRUST BACK TO BACKS AND MEMORIES OF OUR BACK TO BACKS

Me too. Ours was small I made dens with it Nan's was double the size. Dad came home with an upight concertina one, that used to come down on you & my fingers. But we had a garden. Nan had a pulley line in the kitchen and over her bath. I forgot about those. I am yet to see one like gran's little half table top barrell. With a beater. She used to put cooking fat to oil her mangle.
 
i can remember 2 of us at the top of the bed and one at the bottom of a big bed crammed into a small bedroom the pillows were double size and mom called them bolsters and we was covered with a big eiderdown and a great coat,a big jug and bowl on the dressing table to wash in
our brewhouse was down the rd next to the loo/
the wooden cloths horse left brown stains on the cloths
 
mw0njm. said:
i can remember 2 of us at the top of the bed and one at the bottom of a big bed crammed into a small bedroom the pillows were double size and mom called them bolsters and we was covered with a big eiderdown and a great coat,a big jug and bowl on the dressing table to wash in
our brewhouse was down the rd next to the loo/
the wooden cloths horse left brown stains on the cloths
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I think you had to wipe it first. I remember the stiff clothes they would stand up on their own. It took me years to realise what a clowzorse actually meant! And the bungole where it was kept.
 
mw0njm. said:
i can remember 2 of us at the top of the bed and one at the bottom of a big bed crammed into a small bedroom the pillows were double size and mom called them bolsters and we was covered with a big eiderdown and a great coat,a big jug and bowl on the dressing table to wash in
our brewhouse was down the rd next to the loo/
the wooden cloths horse left brown stains on the cloths
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A great coat - thats a term from the old days. More often than not I think it belonged to someone that had been in the Army.
 
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