Guess which year I was born.
My home, my grandma's home and the local shops were gaslit by mains gas, not bottled.
There was no electricity in either house.
My grandma had no running water, there was a shared pump outside her house.
She had no toilet indoors, there was a shared two hole toilet across the yard.
We had a cold tap in the kitchen and no inside toilet.
We didn't share our toilet but it was outside in the yard by the coal shed.
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1954
1949?
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Pam in TX.
1953?
1952
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Josie
I'm 70, and we had none of that..but I think you're younger than me.....which is 1948
1955, I know we had gas lighting in the street and the man would come every evening to light the lamps. My friend had an outside loo still but was having a bathroom put in her home in 1960.
1954. Happy New Year!
1951
Well, our house was exactly the same as yours. No bathroom, a loo at the bottom of the yard, cold water only. I was born in 1962. I didn’t live in a house with a bathroom until I was 21. My mother died in 1981, never having experienced indoor plumbing. People think I make this stuff up but folk really DID live like this - very recently. I have absolutely no nostalgia for the old days. Folks who get all teary-eyed about the good old days never experienced them.
We had no bathroom, toilet out in the yard. Wash house in the yard. Open fires. Had electric light. 1949 I was born.
I lived in a house with an outside loo, tin bath and electric water heater near the kitchen sink as our only hot water source in 1970. I was born in 1965. My great aunt and uncle lived in an almost identical house until their deaths in 1994 and 1995.
I’m guessing at 1953 for your year of birth.
1950 We did have electric and gas in the house, bathroom with a boiler over the bath and a toilet inside and out. My grandfather built the house, he was an electrician........
Crikey! That was really roughing it! My house in Glasgow as a child (1940's) had indoor plumbing, gas for cooking and heating water, and electricity. Now I realize we were really spoiled!
I was born in 1953 in Anchorage, Alaska USA. WE had one mile of paved road but all had electricity, indoor plumbing, natural gas for heating and cooking, etc. But we did not have vintage or historic houses to retrofit. ana USA
Hmmm .... 1949?
1957
probably the 60s in rural lincolnshire though we still dont have gas
I used to live with my nan when i was a baby ,she had a tin bath and an outside loo , I was born in 1960 , When we moved out i was four into a brand new council house , They were demolishing half my nans street when i went to visit and we used to play in the semi derelict houses when i visited her only now i realize writing this how dangerous that was ,there was abandoned furniture old washstands and mangles we loved it xxx
This is my birth date....Dec. 27th, 1948. Never thought I'd be 70 but here it is!
1925?
1954
I was born in 1970 and I remember going to my Nana's and having to use the outside toilet. I hated that thing. It had a big old chain flush that you had to pull and there were (ick!) spiders.
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