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@polksaladallie wrote:

Detergent for the kitchen, laundry, hair washing, etc wasn't in Australia until 1961 or later.

 

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my grandma had this little wire cage thing - like a modern day plastic travel soap holder I spose, but wire and holes and really long handles on it. She used to put all the soap scraps in it and use it in the laundry,

I don't think Mum had a steam iron when I was a child. Ironing wasn't her thing though, so didn't see it very often.

I remember the small wire cage thing with a handle... with soap in it, and it was run through the water in the sink for dishwashing.

My grandfather mum's dad, was a professional gardner, and when he and grandma and all mums sisters and brothers were young they lived in a cottage at the Adelaide Royal Childrens Hospital, grandpa was the gardener there.

Then when I was little he worked for a very well to do family as their gardener, those were the only two jobs he ever had.

He also cross pollunated some poppy seeds and sold the rights to them to Yates seeds...

and we used to have to stand up for God Save the Queen at the pictures.

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@boris1gary wrote:

and we used to have to stand up for God Save the Queen at the pictures.

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Yes!

I was thinking of that the other day here, when there was a thread about MP's having to recite the Lord's Prayer everyday. How most traditions like that have changed/been removed.

no tv's when I was a kid, but there were the seriels on radio.........Blue Hills, Yes What, Hagans Circus, Mrs. Hobs.......

We got a B&W TV when I was 9yo. One of the last families in the area to get one, Dad wasn't sure they were necessary. We went to the neighbours for dinner and to watch their new TV sometimes.

and intermissions, and Family Slide night, cracker night at home, KB (not drinking it but remember the cans).