why in old houses did they.....

[snowhead]

Nope,no-ones got it.It was because apprentices didnt have torches or led's and had to be near the window to see those microscopic brass slotted screws.Those years on time-team were not wasted......:conehead:

But they did have candles stuck to their forehead with hot wax.

 

[valleybilly]

The lass over the road from us never shut her curtians anyway ! lol

 

[Des 56]

No electrical but following the same privacy rule as above,

Another one you don't always see nowadays is doors to rooms were always hung so they hid the view into the room when the door was partly open.

Another reason could be the flames being pushed away from you when the room is burning,rather than sucking them into your nostrils when the door is hung opposite :sweatdrop: :ack2::ack2::ack2:

 

[Guest55]

your all wrong - pendants in front of window so as to make hand animal shadow shapes on the back wall.
:-D

 

[telectrix]

well, judging by your avatar, it's not surprising they stopped doing that.

 

[sparks1973]

and another thing with older (victorian) houses n all....is the way bedroom doors always opened outwards into the room....so if a lady was in the buff.....you wouldn`t see nowt...mind you , the ivy leaf would be enough anyway.....

 

[kingeri]

I always thought it was because in yesteryear folks used to have clothes dryers and vegetable hangers and stuff in the middle of the room so the light was always offset. Might be a load of tripe though.

 

[Guest55]

well, judging by your avatar, it's not surprising they stopped doing that.

i kid you not , my dog does actually look like wile e coyote lol ,

 

[telectrix]

that is one nice pooch. can he get channel 5 on those ears?

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I always thought it was because in yesteryear folks used to have clothes dryers and vegetable hangers and stuff in the middle of the room so the light was always offset. Might be a load of tripe though.

it certainly is.

 

[snowhead]

I always thought it was because in yesteryear folks used to have clothes dryers and vegetable hangers and stuff in the middle of the room so the light was always offset. Might be a load of tripe though.

No they definitely didn't hang Tripe up in the middle of the room

 

[Guest55]

She can pick up the cartoon channel if she sits still , useful for tuning into roadrunner :-D

 

[Des 56]

I always thought it was because in yesteryear folks used to have clothes dryers and vegetable hangers and stuff in the middle of the room so the light was always offset. Might be a load of tripe though.

Yes,in old times it was a pain battling your way past the onions and grandpas Long Johns just to get to bed.then find the slugs had the same idea.
Some quaint ideas of old times there K
:sleep1:

 

[telectrix]

we were posh. the clothes driers and veg. racks were in the kitchen not the bedrooms. tin bath in the scullery, hung on a nail on the back door all week. saturday night, kettles on the fire/aga. kids in first, then mother, then father. but that was just in winter time. april through september was a hosepipe in the back yard.

 

[Adam]

No electrical but following the same privacy rule as above,

Another one you don't always see nowadays is doors to rooms were always hung so they hid the view into the room when the door was partly open.

Now they are hung the other way to make the rooms look bigger when you sell the house.

 

[Strima]

we were posh. the clothes driers and veg. racks were in the kitchen not the bedrooms. tin bath in the scullery, hung on a nail on the back door all week. saturday night, kettles on the fire/aga. kids in first, then mother, then father. but that was just in winter time. april through september was a hosepipe in the back yard.

Hosepipe? We should have been so lucky...

Cue Monty Python...

 

[alarm man]

wring the clothes in the mangle and dry it in front of the aga,christ i remember me granny doing that..:rolleyes2:

 

[telectrix]

was it like ours?

i keep telling her to grease the gears.

 

[Strima]

Up until 1980 my nan had a twin tub and a mangle. Many happy days getting my fingers trapped in that.

 

[sedgy34]

yep. a combination of simulating window light and for the ladies to get dressed/undressed without being between the light and the curtains.

why didn't they just close the curtains lol

 

[alarm man]

more like this one,was the 70's.modern times:1eye: