Winter in the fifties
Watch this postDoes anyone else remember your mum making you a winter pixie hat she called it? That would have been a woollen scarf sewn halfway down and turned outside in and that would've been your hat all through those cold cold winters of the fifties !
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Remembering the woollen swimming costumes made by mum, not the most efficient idea. Grandparents on deck chairs fully dressed in coat and hat on the beach.
Waking up to ice on the inside of the windows no quilts. How did we not get hypothermia.
Walking a mile to school on your own aged 5, or was that just me. Outside toilets, no bathroom, tin baths, dolly tubs for washing clothes.
The Woodentops, Andy Pandy and finding him in the cupboard with Looby Lou, disgusting :).
We had a little lamp that was put in the toilet that kept the frost off it did not heat the toilet but it did keep the pipes from freezing up.