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Yes same here I remember when my parents had some plumbing put in and we had no bathroom for a couple of weeks so as kids we were marched off somewhere near the pepper pot Queen’s Park was a public baths you got a cubicle with an old metal bath you had to shout for the attendant outside to turn...

Not central heating only a coal fire in the front room windows single glazed metal frames would be soaked then freeze over night and you touched the nets they would snap I remember a number of times being told off for that, bedtime was freezing no quilts just sheets and blankets and being tucked...

Playing in the coal bunker and licking coal as it tasted nice I am sure it was akin to really wanting some dark greens to eat you know that need for Iron I was telling the grandchildren about it only last week and they genuinely thought I was making it up