Boiler Shutdown - Warning

[cappy]

Hi Rob, in 1949 i was 8 years old and living with M@D in a tied bungalow, not too far from yourself now, in a village of Empshott. We had no electric, mother cooked on a coal range, and the toilet was a galvanised bucket and the contents buried in the garden. The owner of the big house further down the lane was a General sir Authur Warchope, a 1st war general, and my dad was the gardener chauffeur seems incredible now, me worried about my central heating condenser pipe,lol, kt

####i think we are just born to whinge keith and the older we get the more we like to whinge ...only thing is nobody takes any bloody notice.....lol cappy

[Captain Kong]

We had one cold water tap, no sink and just a "Slopstone" instead of. No toilet, a Midden that the `night soil` men shovelled out once a week,
one coal fire that we cooked on In the front room one gas mantle and only candles in the back room and the two bedrooms,
I will always thank Herr Hitler for dropping a bomb on it.

[cappy]

We had one cold water tap, no sink and just a "Slopstone" instead of. No toilet, a Midden that the `night soil` men shovelled out once a week,
one coal fire that we cooked on In the front room one gas mantle and only candles in the back room and the two bedrooms,
I will always thank Herr Hitler for dropping a bomb on it.

aye times were hard brian ..you must have been eating well getting your midden cleaned once a week ......our in shields was once a month ......and even then it only took two shovelfulls ...lol cappy

[robpage]

Hi Rob, in 1949 i was 8 years old and living with M@D in a tied bungalow, not too far from yourself now, in a village of Empshott. We had no electric, mother cooked on a coal range, and the toilet was a galvanised bucket and the contents buried in the garden. The owner of the big house further down the lane was a General sir Authur Warchope, a 1st war general, and my dad was the gardener chauffeur seems incredible now, me worried about my central heating condenser pipe,lol, kt

know Empshott well , just passing byit though , I go to Liss three times a week or rehab physiotherapy

[happy daze john in oz]

Many moons ago we had a hot water system where the Dutch Oven fire heated a back boiler.
A copper in the scullery to do the weekly wash, a man hole where they dropped bags of coal, and gas mantle lighting until after the war.
The house is still there in south London,, it was a three storey with atics in which lived the bogey man who I was told would eat me alive if I did not eat my vegs.
The house is still there but now converted to a child minding center.
Wonder where the bogey man is now?

[happy daze john in oz]

Speaking last night with my brother in law in south London.
His boiler had been down for two days before he could get help.
Same problem, frozen pipe.
But the guy who fixed the problem told him all theses pipes should empty into a warm environment ,such as an inside outlet.
He thinks the way they are fitted is the cheap and easy way out.
My brother in law is now going to get this guy to attempt to relocate the outlet to an inside one.

[Graham Payne]

Hi Rob, in 1949 i was 8 years old and living with M@D in a tied bungalow, not too far from yourself now, in a village of Empshott. We had no electric, mother cooked on a coal range, and the toilet was a galvanised bucket and the contents buried in the garden. The owner of the big house further down the lane was a General sir Authur Warchope, a 1st war general, and my dad was the gardener chauffeur seems incredible now, me worried about my central heating condenser pipe,lol, kt

Make you right there Keith,
makes you wonder how our parents coped, nowadays its Mum/Dad or Nanny/ Grandad I have no credit on my "Mobile Phone"
I feel like saying " Oh dear, How sad, Never mind ".

Hi John
British Gas fitted our boiler, the acid water condensing waste is inside and connected to the kitchen sink. However "Management said I do not know where that is".
BUT I DO ,
it is behind that door where she goes into every night before she comes out with my dinner.