A larder.
That’s made me go cold! We had one exactly the same as that in red. We kept our breakfast cereals on top of it. One morning, my sister aged 4 and me, aged 7 were up before my mum and dad. I decided to make breakfast for us. We got two chairs and stood on them. Still couldn’t reach the cereal packets, so I pulled that central flap/door down and climbed onto it. It toppled forward, I jumped off, my sister wasn’t quick enough and her head went crashing through the reeded glass doors as it fell directly on top of her. Hearing the noise, my dad came flying down the stairs, stark naked, and lifted it off of her. She didn’t have so much as a scratch on her but it could have been so much worse.
A larder.
Frost on the inside of the bedroom windows first thing on a winter morning. A coal scuttle. Outside toilet and cut up newspaper threaded onto string hanging on the back of the door.
When we moved into our current house I feared what would have been the airing cupboard would be impotent for this very reason... I was mystified as to why it was still warm... turns out someone had the foresight to pop a small radiator in it... the joys need not be lost!
Got one in our house - not above the fire though, in the kitchen. They're still very common in Edinburgh - great space saver if you have high ceilings and don't like to run the tumble drier non-stop especially when the weather isn't usually conducive to drying outside.
Anyway:
Flying ducks on the wall
Glass cabinet
"Best" china/cutlery
Card table
Porn mags.
I have to confess that we have a "best china" cabinet in the lounge to show off expensive crockery and decanters etc.
I don't think I have even opened the door of the thing for over twenty years so really it is totally pointless.
The only thing in its defence is that it looks rather charming and has a few things passed down from the odd deceased relative.
This washing machine. You'll never guess what year we got rid of it.
As mentioned previously in the thread - kitchen serving hatch. Particularly noticeable for me in the parental home as halfway through my upbringing they boarded it up and I never received my dinners in the same swift manner again!
Garages that could fit an actual car
I suspect I'm too young to be poking around in this thread, but I will add those bead curtains instead of actual doors between rooms... used to be the ultimate in interior design, everyone had one. 😁😁
And the bead car seat covers. *shudder*. Do they still make them?
I pestered my parents for years to buy one of those! That, and wall & ceiling lights that looked like candles complete with dripping wax (and flickering candle bulbs too, of course).
Also,
Barometers
Paint-by-numbers
Record player that held a stack of records above the turntable, and released one at a time as the previous one ended.
Trouser press - miss the Corby!
Coffee percolators - everyone had them in the 70s.
Izal medicated bog roll.
The old man used to “bring” it home from his workplace. I’d rather use sharkskin.
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I was living in a student bedsit in a house with shared, ahem, "facilities", where that was still going on in the nineties.
The one that was a present for my 16th birthday is still in daily (nightly) use — still going strong nearly thirty years later.
I still have my mum's spong coffee mill/grinder thanks....
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Rough side for wiping, shiney side for polishing.
Or tear a small section from the middle sheet, put your finger through said hole and wipe your arse.
Use the small torn off section to clean under your finger nail.
Back on subject - Gas fridges. Used to explode when re-lighting it after the money in the gas meter ran out and you'd put another shilling in the meter.
And from the 1960's, the quaintly named Gaybox that everyone had on their frontroom wall.
screen shot on pc
Foil Christmas decorations.
Waffle iron
TV licence - not had one for 25 years - always ahead of the curve
Jagermeister - before it was trendy, when people said it tasted like cough meds
20 Camel untipped, or No6 or No10 or JPS
True - you never see it in any houses anymore as everyone has gone for the fancy soap in the plastic bottle. After seeing all those pictures and hearing about the amount of plastic in the ocean I've gone back to normal soap. The amount of plastic bottles used in a normal household is ridiculous.
Back on topic and I'll add fluorescent lighting that used to be everywhere - in kitchens especially.
Glass bottles for Coke and other sodapops are nearly gone.
Rough and tough and takes no s**t? It was called Clint Eastwood toilet paper over here in my day. I suppose it's called something else today, but the properties are still the same and I bet they will be for years to come.
I think it was because you walked like you'd just got off a horse after using it!
Lard - for use as a cooking fat, no fancy Rape Seed Oil back then
Net Curtains
Bed pans
Basements (not the new ones housing indoor pools etc) ours had a Well in it too, a f**king Well!!!
Oil fired brass lamps
Electric bread knife
Fire places in bedrooms
Ice cube container that looked like a Pineapple, tea leaf dispenser on the wall in the kitchen.
I think I'm going to have to take my phone walkabout and see how many of the things in this thread I can photograph in the house.
Whimsies
A blown glass fish
Chip pan fires
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Crazy paving.
Soap on on a rope.
Bottle of Brut 33 from Xmas 1971, still unopened.
Ashtrays have already been said but specifically the free standing type that were on a bakelite base with steel extendable pole with the tray on top so that you could have it level with the arm of a chair.
And matey bubble bath.
A slide projector. There was never a chance to escape those evenings.
Pah.... got 2 of them.... still in daily use. They were called kitchen maids, and the company I used to work for (Remploy) made them by the thousands
One in the kitchen... home made chips tonight Mmmm..... This is a Remploy one that I got off eBay and fully referbished..
And one in the dining room..(dog food)
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