Dna

[Marian Gray]

I agree John the quick edit is fine if only one mistake to rectify but if many as I suspect with Louis and myself 'tis quicker to delete.
One problem I have is when Ancestry decides and shows a particular rellie has a half sibling when they most certainly do not!
And then there is their version of spelling of UK destinations and surnames, that can be a riot!

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Marion.
Long time since I did any ancestry, but mistakes can be made especially if you put someone down as deceased and they phone you at midnight.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

JS some GBP 2450 for an inside toliet, bit expensive.
But in the NE there ae many regions with properties such as that.
But my GGF lived in a single storey cottage in a terraced row of them, built for the workers in the Sunderland ship yard many long years past.
But porogressive, ,outside dunny, but an en suite.
Every Friday night the galvanized bath tub was taken down from the nail on the outside door, stood in front of the fire and the family, father first, took it in turns to bathe.
No soap for the last one, enough suds aleady he would say.

[j.sabourn]

Once a week whether you needed or not , the height of hygiene, hope he was a gentleman and didn’t pee in the water , or did he say it was good for washing your hair in ? My aunt who lived in North Shields lived in an upstairs flat and lived there all her married life , no kitchen, and toilet in the backyard they paid 5/- a week rent up until their deaths about 1980. it was either the public baths or came through to our house in Whitley Bay where my parents lived in a council house used to bring their own bar of soap though. My brother who lived at home wanted to buy it when they came on the market, my old man wouldn’t let him , maybe he thought he may have chucked him out. My Bro.still lives there paying a much higher rent , living surrounded by aliens. Think you are living in little Aden. JS

[Tony Taylor]

JS some GBP 2450 for an inside toliet, bit expensive.
But in the NE there ae many regions with properties such as that.
But my GGF lived in a single storey cottage in a terraced row of them, built for the workers in the Sunderland ship yard many long years past.
But porogressive, ,outside dunny, but an en suite.
Every Friday night the galvanized bath tub was taken down from the nail on the outside door, stood in front of the fire and the family, father first, took it in turns to bathe.
No soap for the last one, enough suds aleady he would say.

I had that until I was eleven, old stone built terrace, 2 beds one room downstairs, kitchen? only big enough for gas cooker, sink (one cold tap) and about 2 foot long bench, toilet outside across the road.

[j.sabourn]

Shouldn’t have been too hazardous crossing the road in those days John , the only traffic being penny farthings . Today however a different story only have to hear a tap running and looking for a toilet. And the traffic you know all about. Cheers JS

[cappy]

I had that until I was eleven, old stone built terrace, 2 beds one room downstairs, kitchen? only big enough for gas cooker, sink (one cold tap) and about 2 foot long bench, toilet outside across the road.

A poem we all

learned as kids in shields
...DOWN IN THE JUNGLE
LIVING IN A TENT
BETTER THAN A PREFAB
NO RENT
R683532

[cappy]

shouldn’t have been too hazardous crossing the road in those days john , the only traffic being penny farthings . Today however a different story only have to hear a tap running and looking for a toilet. And the traffic you know all about. Cheers js

yer right there john a couple of years ago i bought a solar powered village pump for the garden .....every time the sun shone it fired up.... Water from the pump... Followed.....by me having to scarper to pump out ballast......r683532

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Well Cappy you will subsrcibe to AI.
Des

[happy daze john in oz]

But with all the failures of the conditions then we were a happy lot.............I think.
Now the complain if the house does not have at least two bathrooms, some I have heard even build a kitchen in the garage so the one in the house does not get dirty.