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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

Name 3 things you had in your childhood home that you do not have in your own home.

Bunk Beds

Itchy Blankets

A pay as you go Gas meter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A toasting fork

Open fireplaces in the bedrooms

Sash windows

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Black and white TV

Blue Nun Wine

Hot water bottles

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By *ildmovementMan
over a year ago

south Central

My mum and dad (god rest them)

A sacred heart light

The child of Prague

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By *ealitybitesMan
over a year ago

Belfast

Sacred heart lamp

Bedroom fireplace

Outside toilet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Frost on the inside of the windows!

A wringer washing machine

A Belfast sink

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

Carpets in every room

Heavy outside window shutters

Fab water pressure

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Carpet

Holy Statues

Portable Heaters

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Central heating (oil)

Coal fired cooking stove

Telephone (landline)

Light bulbs (luminescent)

Griddle (for baking)

Electric food mixer

Siblings

Mice

Cast iron cooking pot

Table cloths

Lifebuoy soap

Sunlight soap

Lux soapflakes

Toilet plunger

Rental television

Visiting clergymen

Church donation envelopes

Virgin Mary portraits

Religious statues

John F Kennedy photograph

Papal portraits (Pius xii)

Carpet sweeper

Brass bed frames

Non-sprung mattresses

Kosangas room heaters

Washing line

Top-loading washing machine

Mangle-for squeezing water out of wet clothes

Wash board

Clothes horse

Moth balls in cupboards

Black and white photos

Linoleum floor coverings

Chamber pot under bed

Camomile (sun) lotion

Virol food supplement

Bags of refined sugar

Cigarette ashtrays

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

"Central heating (oil)

Coal fired cooking stove

Telephone (landline)

Light bulbs (luminescent)

Griddle (for baking)

Electric food mixer

Siblings

Mice

Cast iron cooking pot

Table cloths

Lifebuoy soap

Sunlight soap

Lux soapflakes

Toilet plunger

Rental television

Visiting clergymen

Church donation envelopes

Virgin Mary portraits

Religious statues

John F Kennedy photograph

Papal portraits (Pius xii)

Carpet sweeper

Brass bed frames

Non-sprung mattresses

Kosangas room heaters

Washing line

Top-loading washing machine

Mangle-for squeezing water out of wet clothes

Wash board

Clothes horse

Moth balls in cupboards

Black and white photos

Linoleum floor coverings

Chamber pot under bed

Camomile (sun) lotion

Virol food supplement

Bags of refined sugar

Cigarette ashtrays

That's a lot more than 3 .

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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

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By *ustBoWoman
over a year ago

Somewhere in Co. Down

Bunk beds.

blankets.

Rotary dial phone.

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Nostalgic trip down memory lane, from 50+ years ago.

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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

"Nostalgic trip down memory lane, from 50+ years ago."

A lot on it that we all had

Can you imagine being left with a Superser heater on as a child now

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

It's kinda funny I've a house with a Belfast sink, a sacred heart light and bedroom fireplaces (not using them though) and a solif fuel range in the kitchen. Love those memorabilias of the past century.

Anyhow the single glazed sash windows had to go though, they were falling apart, replaced by triple glazed French windows.

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By *lameBoyMan
over a year ago

Enfield & Dublin

Coin box beside the telephone that was wired into the wall. Rotary dialler on it.

Town gas.

Wind up alarm clock that ticked loudly all day but even louder at night.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Clothes boiler

Woodchip wallpaper

Coal shed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A soda stream

Gas cooker

The child of Prague

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By *he rover returnedWoman
over a year ago

xxx

Solid fuel cooker

Peach bathroom

Eiderdowns

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

There are two crucial things I neglected to include, that many will never have seen:

Antimacasser coverings on sofa and armchairs.

I think macasser oil was, a long time ago, applied to hair. The chair coverings could be removed and boil-washed with strong carbolic soap.

And finally, the cellophane coverings that could be applied to a black and white TV screen to give the impression that the TV was colour; I think it was blue at the top (sky): red in the middle (faces) and green at the bottom (grass).

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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

The good room for guests only

The roll of carpet protector from the front door to the kitchen..only taken up when the guests arrived to use the good room

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By *he rover returnedWoman
over a year ago

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"The good room for guests only

The roll of carpet protector from the front door to the kitchen..only taken up when the guests arrived to use the good room "

Omg id completely forgotten about the carpet protector. Bloody awful stuff

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By *hris 1000200Man
over a year ago

kells

Light switch protectors

Coats on the bed

Twin tub washing machine

God I feel old

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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

Readers Digest

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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

"The good room for guests only

The roll of carpet protector from the front door to the kitchen..only taken up when the guests arrived to use the good room

Omg id completely forgotten about the carpet protector. Bloody awful stuff

The best bit was turning it upside down and calling your brothers saying it was an emergency

They ran across the spikes like they were bits of lego

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"It's kinda funny I've a house with a Belfast sink, a sacred heart light and bedroom fireplaces (not using them though) and a solif fuel range in the kitchen. Love those memorabilias of the past century.

Anyhow the single glazed sash windows had to go though, they were falling apart, replaced by triple glazed French windows.

Oh the Belfast sinks became very trendy in the 1990s

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

1.The rubber hose shower connection for the bath taps.

2. That golden coloured box in the sitting room for the,,,,actually I can't remember what it was for

3. Dogs ears for the tv

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By *lameBoyMan
over a year ago

Enfield & Dublin

"Readers Digest "

My mother used to read Mills and Boon books. Oh my god, I’d shoved that memory well away!!!!!

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By *og-Man OP Man
over a year ago

somewhere

"1.The rubber hose shower connection for the bath taps.

2. That golden coloured box in the sitting room for the,,,,actually I can't remember what it was for

3. Dogs ears for the tv"

The golden coloured box is a new one on me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Doilies under all vases and bowls

Carridge clock

Soup mug/bowls with the recipe on the front

Coasters under the legs of the couch

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Name 3 things you had in your childhood home that you do not have in your own home.

Bunk Beds

Itchy Blankets

A pay as you go Gas meter "

Land line telephone on as table in the hallway near the front door

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By *lameBoyMan
over a year ago

Enfield & Dublin

"1.The rubber hose shower connection for the bath taps.

2. That golden coloured box in the sitting room for the,,,,actually I can't remember what it was for

3. Dogs ears for the tv

The golden coloured box is a new one on me "

Was a brass fireside box, used to hold the kindling and newspapers for lighting it.

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By *elfastDMan
over a year ago

belfast

"Doilies under all vases and bowls

Carridge clock

Soup mug/bowls with the recipe on the front

Coasters under the legs of the couch

I took our soup mug/bowls to uni when I left, I think my mum was glad to get rid of them

What about

Fine China

A basin that was used for everything (especially for being sick in

)

Bubble bath in a pirate shaped bottle

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By *elle xWoman
over a year ago

Doire Theas

Those candy stripe sheets everyone had

Carpet

Sacred heart light

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By *ed_AliceWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

Ice on the inside of the bedroom windows in winter

Candlewick bedspreads

Brass ornaments (fecking hundreds of the things that had to be polished every damn week - dust & tarnish gatherers)

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By *ichael McCarthyMan
over a year ago

Lucan

A permanently broken window.

A pet lamb.

A foreskin

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

TV via an arial

An electric bar heater

A tape drive connected up to my spectrum

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

"A permanently broken window.

A pet lamb.

A foreskin

Do the last two have some sort of connection?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"TV via an arial

An electric bar heater

A tape drive connected up to my spectrum

I can relate to those 3

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By *eepixieWoman
over a year ago

Belfast

Metal cage outside bin with bin men who css as me into the back garden/yard to empty it

Crochet sofa coverings on the arms & backs

Bedroom wall covered in posters of your favourite pop star/stars

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

#1: The Random Picture of Jesus with the light underneath

#2: Stupid amounts of Waterford Crystal displayed everywhere

#3: Ash Trays

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By *etmebeurfantasyWoman
over a year ago

My town

Electric fire

Bath

Pope pictures

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By *oey4somefunMan
over a year ago

Dublin/Drogheda

Hoses connected to bath taps for shower

Hostess trolley

Only 1 toilet

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By *ctoboyMan
over a year ago

Glasgow

In my own home what 3 things I don't have now that I did as a child

Coal Fire

Sacred Heart Light

6 Sisters & 4 Brothers...lol

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

An Encyclopedia,

Nintendo Entertainment System,

A big plastic pipe for disciplining children.

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By *oserMan
over a year ago

where the wild roses grow

1. My man servant

2. The scullery girl with the huge knockers

3. The "maid"

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By *oxyvixen99Woman
over a year ago

Newtownabbey

Kerplunk

People's Friend

Armchair covers

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Opel fruits

Marathon bars

Swapping fancy paper

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