My first girlfriend produced a tin tub from an outside shed when looking for something.
It was the bath tub and once a week they used to bring it in once a week and put it in front of the fire and fill it from the kettle.
I remember sitting on the floor to have a bowl of cereal for breakfast in the winter before school so we could lean our backs against the radiator which although warm provided scant heat for the rest of the room.
This was the only heat in B&Bs back in the day…fed by endless supplies of shilling coins. In school, when we went up to the 1700 stone schoolhouse, the only heat was water pipes running round the outside of the room. We ran all the way up the hill to be first into the classroom, where those fast enough got to put their stockinged feet on the pipes. If you were slow or late, you got a seat in the centre of the room where it was freezing.
We were lucky enough to have an indoor bathroom so never had to suffer the outdoor toilet.
The poor sods living in the row of cottages on the other hand all had to share the two bogs stuck on the end of the row and they definitely didn’t have any heating.
Two bogs for six houses and quite a hike for those living in the houses at the far end of the row. I think the chamber pots saw quite a lot of use in those houses.
We had the bathtub in front of the fire and clothes got washed in the same tub and afterwards got hung up on the wooden rack that had to be lowered from the ceiling, come to think of it we had a clothes mangle too, nasty thing, always trying to nip my fingers.
We lived in a post war prefab with a bathroom but also had a tin tub as my dad was a miner and came home dirty after his shift. Happy days!
Ooo! Do you have pictures?
If I remenber correctly Pontins put a lot of them up in Blackpool, or better Lytham St. Annes.
This was always a favorite during Wakes week when 85% of Lancashire got totally ransacked on Watney’s party 7.
My in laws had a bathroom upstairs but their house in the East End of London still had the old outside toilet. F in L tiled it all out, installed a new loo and put a new door on. It was used as an extra loo when they had parties.
The post war prefabs we lived in were built by Wimpey with Crittall windows in them, the company who made the curved windows for the 1920s / 30s Art Deco houses with flat roofs that were built. Ours was detached with a huge garden front and back. My parents were allocated a new semi detached council house in 1965 when the prefabs were being demolished (we actually lived in 3 over the years, 2 on opposite sides of the same street and the other in the next street when our street was being demolished). Whilst they were moving into something bigger and modern with central heating, they were sad to leave the prefabs behind. It was one of the reasons my dad became a miner in 1947, you got a prefab with the job (they lived in Belfast for 2 years with my eldest brother after the war but my dad saw could envisage the sectarianism getting worse in the future so they went to Scotland and my mum’s family.
There is one Art Deco house around near the East Neuk of Fife that still has the original oak panelling in the hallway and the sun lounge on the roof. Crittall produce replacement double glazing for them now in keeping with the original design. I’d love to live in it as it sings to me every time I pass it, the sun lounge has a view of the sea 
I bought my dad’s house from the council for 12.8k in 2002 and lived there until 2014 when I sold it for 109k.
My aunt and uncle also did the same. They didn’t have a bathroom in their house; had to use the outside toilet which wasn’t fun in the winter.
In my college in Oxford I don’t think heating was on until mid-day. We didn’t have showers, but small square XIX century bathtubs… The bathtub would have the old fashion separate cold & hot water faucets. Any attempt to create a joint (cold+hot) water flow through an external rubber tube would be immediately confiscated as it was considered ‘dangerous’. Happy? days…
In my school, we were allowed to use those iron bathtubs with the separate taps, but we were not allowed to get our hair wet. Hairy Man came every two (2) weeks to wash each girl’s hair in his portable salon bowl. By the end of those weeks, we were desperate.
Perhaps this may help https://youtu.be/6QZhC8DUD_o
I used to always buy You! lavender and camomile teabags in Migros to drink at bedtime but it was an own brand and has been discontinued. Yesterday I was in COOP and decided to try Pukka Tea Night Time which has lavender and camomile, but I didn’t realise they also contain valerian as it has a different name in German. I once tried valerian tablets for sleep years ago and had very iffy experiences with it so stopped with them.
OMG you have no idea the weird dreams I had last night, it was like hallucinating about some really strange people 
The tea had a weird undertaste of liquorice as well, seems this is valerian when it’s brewed. Well that was a waste of about 6f 60!
Migros are killing off some of their sub-brands (you might have notices M-Budget dissappearing). This looks similar (camomile, Lavender and Lemon Balm) - worth a try? Seems to be available in larger Migros.
Thanks, I’ll have a look at those next time I’m in for groceries.
Uff 3 in the morning. Went from having the nicest dream, a real, feel good dream where I was walking on the seawall in Malta, there isnt one by the way, then strange things started to happen really fast until even my stupid sleep brain went: “thats silly” and reset.
Now I’m awake and the alarm is going to sound off in three hours.
I hate this.
I woke up after 3 hours last night. OH is in Spain visiting a friend from his university days who’s had a quadruple bypass and the bed seems really big 
I got up, had a cuppa made a yeast starter for pizza tonight, she who hasnt runaway requesed pizza, and went back to bed. Tossed and turned, could not find comfy bit then did only to get an itch. At some point I felt myself drifting off untill brain went: “Oh great, at last sleep” and woke me up to tell me the good news.
I had to fall asleep with my Airpods in listening to relaxation music last night, there’s overnight engineering work going on at the railway lines nearby for the next 10 nights 
