North East Art Prints - Bath Night

North East Art Prints - Bath NightSigned print 28cm x 23cm Bath night was usually a Friday night. The tin bath would be unhooked from its nail in the back yard wall, brought into the house and placed on the clippy mat infront of the roaring coal fire. Hot water would be ladled into the bath from the boiler at the side of the cast iron range, mam would sit on her cracker (a small wooden stool) and proceed to wash the children. No modesty here, boys and girls got into the same bath and

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when men always seemed to wear heavy dark clothing

Bill Bryson

"Many a Coal Board driver found himself confronted by an army of protesting women as he tried to deposit his cargo of coal especially on washing days when freshly washed clothes festooned the washing lines strung across the back lane

The Lion concealed himself on seeing her approach

one: the faster - for coal drawing

They were washed and scrubbed with carbolic soap

It can attract three hundred thousand people

” exclaimed the Doe

Many miners' homes had no bathrooms and no running hot water

" then blasting the coal down

There was a TV programme showing at the time called The Little House On The Prairie