Yes I was born in 1951.
Some people don't believe it was possible to live in a house without mains water or electric in the 1950's.
Like Kate I lived in Lincolnshire but not in a rural area, I lived in a market town, within walking distance of the centre.
Scrimping and saving, ranting and raving. Past retirement age.
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Hello from Texas...and I was also born in 1951...I say it was a pretty good year! 😂
Glad your Christmas turned out ok.
Have a Happy New Year!
Hughugs
Another Yellowbelly here also born 1951. My granny's house had no running water inside at all and no mains electricity. Still living in a Lincolnshire Market town. I now have both electricity and running water.
Happy 2019
I was born in 1951 in the North-East. moved to a Derbyshire village, no running water, no electricity but as I was only 6 months old don't remember it.
I was born in 1951 and lived in a house with an outside toilet and no running water for 12 years. It was a farm cottage and was called Tollgate Cottage. We had to get all of our water from the well in next door's garden, Tollgate House who had running water. We did have electricity fortunately. My Dad had to resign from his job as a farm labourer to get a decent wage and for us to be rehoused with running water at last. Gwen765
Same as me Hester and I remember the gas lighting before they put electric in.
Another Yellowbelly here and born in 1932 - no bathroom, outside lav at the bottomof the garden and it had to be emptied every Saturday by my Dad (we had fantastic damsons on the tree where he emptied it mostly_) and water at a lion-shaped standpipe across the street where we had to collect it and keep a bucket in thekitchen. Washing up water had to be boiled in the kettle. Didn't know any different so didn\t mind.
Yay I got it right. :). I hope You have a wonderful new year :)
Joining you in birth years, from West Virginia. I was born in Virginia to an English mother, and Dad from New Orleans--they met during the war. Our first house in Centreville, VA had no running water and had an outside toilet too. We lived there until I was 5, and of course as a child I saw it as no difficulty! For my mother, with 6 little ones, I am sure it was hard work. We did have electricity there. When I moved to West Virginia in 1974 we did not put in electricity and had an outside toilet for 5 years. Again, I was young and my boys were young and it didn't matter. In 1980 we put in a toilet and in 1989 got electricity. And then, we were the first house in our area to have the internet!
Being born in the 70s I got some considerable comfort by comparison but there are some people can't grasp that we grew up in houses that had single glazed window that froze on the inside in winter and no central heating - the only rooms that were heated in our house were the kitchen (winter only by the coal fired boiler that heated the water & it was my job to keep that baby ticking over once it was lit for the season! I never once let it go out I'm proud to say.) the living room by a gas fire so not all the time and the hot air blower above the door in the bathroom.
Brr I count myself very lucky now to have central heating & double glazing a the norm.
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