My Childhood In Southall
A Memory of Southall.
Another thing that I remember was bath night. Notice I said night and not nights!!
We had a tin bath which had to be filled up by boiling kettles and saucepans. My young brother would go in first, then me, after me was mummy, and last was daddy!! What ever would health and safety have to say about that today!! We were, however, one of the first houses in our street to have an inside toilet and bathroom.
We didn't have central heating so therefore, in the winter, we had ice on the inside of the windows! I used to love to "huff" on the window and watch the lovely frost patterns return. We didn't have fitted carpets, or heating upstairs.....we didn't die from the cold and to this day, I don't like heating in my bedroom.
You may think reading this account that we were very poor.....far from it....we weren't
poor, nor were we "we'll off". However, if you are a young person reading this and judging by to-days standards then you may have a different point of view.
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My name is Michael and I lived on Endsleigh Road in Southall from 1947 until 1967. Yes bath night was the same for me, but we had a copper boiler which we used to fill the bath. You had to be careful getting in as the water may have been warm but the sides of that tin bath were cold. Only fire in the house was a range in the back room so the rest was freezing in the winter, but it did us no harm.
Outside loo was an additional fridge/freezer in winter
Happy days