tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post6582176746605380413..comments2024-03-29T01:52:49.317-07:00Comments on Codlinsandcream2: Whatever happened to bath cubes?Bovey Bellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-4455492167374288672010-10-25T12:45:44.975-07:002010-10-25T12:45:44.975-07:00BB, they certainly aren't cheap! I am wonderin...BB, they certainly aren't cheap! I am wondering if they can be made at home...<br /><br />Alistair, in our bathroom we currently have one bar of Wrights Coal Tar soap and one bar of Knight's Castille! :-)Hannah Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13104221342294544029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-24082667342016768292010-10-24T12:33:41.995-07:002010-10-24T12:33:41.995-07:00Hi
If you are ever anywhere near Montgomery on the...Hi<br />If you are ever anywhere near Montgomery on the mid welsh boarder, make a detour and pop into a local shop called 'Bunners' it is a shop well used by the locals and those from further afield and has been in the same family for over a 100 years and it is still as you have discribed the shop you used to go to - even down to the smell of parrafin (which they still sell!) It's a brilliant store and I just cannot go there and not buy anything! our last purchase a few weeks ago was to buy a fire basket for our old log burner! they do really appear to sell everything a country dweller could possibly need (even down to stanley cookers) all to the brilliant aroma of parrafin!<br />Thank you for the memories that you evoked<br />SandraTrudiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16242249211391956940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-78406215967233800412010-10-24T04:07:26.453-07:002010-10-24T04:07:26.453-07:00I just remember (from Bromley, I think, where I li...I just remember (from Bromley, I think, where I lived briefly as a child) a small aeroplane flying overhead with a trailing banner advertising pink paraffin...I used to hate the smell of the heaters. Weekly bathnights - how times change!Jodie Robsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02442935205880334932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-22406135387338348742010-10-23T15:16:00.339-07:002010-10-23T15:16:00.339-07:00Sings 'Theeeey aaaasked meeee howowow I kneeew...Sings 'Theeeey aaaasked meeee howowow I kneeeww it waaa Esssooo Blooooooo'<br /><br />I remember the smell of paraffin and the fumes the heaters gave off too. I also could wax lyrical about the smell of burning pine logs or branches and peat fires. Also Wrights coal tar soap or Knights Castille soap.<br /><br />I used to hate the hard Izal toilet paper my granny used though.......Alistairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16667242161539996736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-37117299172932855882010-10-23T09:53:05.016-07:002010-10-23T09:53:05.016-07:00Now you've jogged MY memory.
When I was growi...Now you've jogged MY memory.<br /><br />When I was growing up, late 50s early 60s, our local Boots was only a small single shop, not the vast shopping mall emporiums they are today.<br /><br />Downstairs was the traditional chemist but upstairs they sold books. I don't know if that was general, or just our little one.<br /><br />I can remember ordering my first book, although I can't recall what it was, and nagging my Mum every time we went out shopping for us to go in and see if it had arrived yet. It seemed to take forever but was probably only a couple of weeks.<br /><br />We also had one of the smelly paraffin heaters.<br />Think Pink was the slogan I think.<br />And of course;<br />Boom Boom Boom Boom. Esso Blue!Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14068053394067243278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-69527062755466830752010-10-23T00:46:58.591-07:002010-10-23T00:46:58.591-07:00Chris J - Tweed soap - gosh, you've just broug...Chris J - Tweed soap - gosh, you've just brought back Christmases when mum used to get given a Tweed gift set for Christmas . . . There are still Tilley style lamps about - especially as car boot sales - though you can buy them new at Amazon still! Mum called them Hurricane Lamps . . .<br /><br />MM - Paraffin is kerosene I'm pretty sure . . . Very smelly but stopped your extremities freezing when you were away from the main fireplae.Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-54347804780234207542010-10-22T20:39:49.415-07:002010-10-22T20:39:49.415-07:00Lots of memories here -- and smells. Bath cubes ...Lots of memories here -- and smells. Bath cubes were what we gave at Christmas to various friends and relatives. My mother loved Tweed soap. We got book tokens and later, Black Magic chocolates. I think you can still get those. Do they still have Tilley Lamps I wonder. Oh and I remember my mother carrying hot coals sometimes with flames, on a shovel from one room to the front room, so she wouldn't have to try to light the fire in there. Smoke and smuts!ChrisJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550420299395301062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-29582290457489473952010-10-22T17:34:36.382-07:002010-10-22T17:34:36.382-07:00I have to ask what the US equivalent of "parr...I have to ask what the US equivalent of "parrafin" might be--over here that would be the cakes of wax which one melted to top jelly jars. The heaters remind me of some very hazardous kerosene types.<br />Bath cubes: hadn't thought of those in years--little foil wrappers and a pretty flowery image pasted on--they were gritty--but one felt instantly transformed into a beautiful and romantic femme fatale!<br />Later there were the ones that looked like big jelly beans.<br />There was a general store in the small town where I grew up--its wares were much what you are talking about--it had a meat counter and cold locker as well, and a rather dreary assortment of basic clothing, "house dresses" for women, work shirts and caps and those horrid buckle galoshes.<br />The wood floors smelt of all these things combined.Morning's Minionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01912356455981434029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-32386530510062380912010-10-22T14:23:00.913-07:002010-10-22T14:23:00.913-07:00Hi Hannah, lovely to see you here. I checked out ...Hi Hannah, lovely to see you here. I checked out your link, but blimey, they're not cheap are they?! I didn't realize you could still get 4711. It would get washed off here in the average Welsh summer though!Bovey Bellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13117332471600275100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8569181568013465215.post-64534124486661611892010-10-22T13:03:56.209-07:002010-10-22T13:03:56.209-07:00BB, your lovely post brought back memories of the ...BB, your lovely post brought back memories of the corner shop near us where you could buy all those things. It always amazes me that even the thought of a particular smell can bring back such strong memories. <br /><br />I love 4711 and use it frequently in the summer months when it helps to keep me cool just by applying it to my inner wrists :)<br /><br />These aren't the bath cubes that we remember, but they do sound very nice http://carbolicsoap.com/kneipp-sparkling-bath-tablets-c-318.html<br /><br />Hannah xHannah Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13104221342294544029noreply@blogger.com