Ice on the insides of windows growing up

[candlemasbells]

Inspired by the other threads about bath water, loo breaks and drinks, did you grow up with ice on the inside of the windows in winter?
We lived for many years in an old house with no central heating and in the winter beautiful patterns would form in ice on the insides of the windows. I often hear people of my parents generation or older reminiscing about cold winters and ice on the insides of windows and they don’t believe that someone my age (born in the 1980s) would have experienced it.
We were in no way neglected growing up, we were given hot water bottles, plenty of duvets/blankets/sleeping bags to keep warm. In the depths of winter we would often sleep in a downstairs room which had a fire.
Theres a question asked on the census about the type of central heating your house has.

When I was a student back in the early 90s we would wake to find the curtains frozen to the window. fun times

I still get ice on the inside if it is very cold now!
But yes same when I was a kid
It can be a bit miserable in winter

Not when growing up, but when I moved in with dh about 2002. Old farmhouse. My "bed water" used to freeze as well.

We now have heating, stove and dogs. Back then it was one storage heater and a coal fire. Brrrrrrr.

yes, when I was growing up in the 70's, and we had central heating. Not very efficient though I think

We had this! No central heating/double glazing and old Victorian sash windows that rattled in the wind. It was so cold in the winter - my sister and I used to get dressed for school under the duvet.

Yes, I remember this. I grew up in the 60s in an old cottage in the Lake District with no central heating. It was bliss to move to a centrally heated house when I was ten. No more getting dressed in front of the open fire, and no more chilblains.

Yes I had ice inside my bedroom window and I was born in 83. At some point in my childhood my parents got some double glazing but they still don't have all windows double glazed now. My first bedroom had that secondary glazing that slid across.

I didn't but DH did, early 80s baby. We also have family friends who have never had central heating, just a fire and solid fuel stove. I'm the same age as their grown up children so also 80s babies but closer to the 90s.

yes 1960s flat and the only heating in the flat was under floor in the lounge in the 80s when we had central heating put in our house my children all moaned that the bedrooms were too hot ungrateful little beasts

Thecrisplover same! And the damp teatowels used to freeze solid hanging on the hook overnight in the kitchen.

We used to go to bed with more clothes on than we had on in the daytime. I'd get undressed, put my pyjamas on, then put my clothes back on again before getting into bed!

I remember those days too would be been the 80s at home and we had central heating!

And in Uni houses in the 90s but they never had central heating in old terraces.

I'm an early 80s kid and I remember this. We didn't get double glazing until the 90s at least. I remember one particularly cold morning and looking at the ice on the window.

I was born in the 70s and I had the smaller bedroom on the corner of the house. I remember ice on the inside of the windows. I would put my school clothes in the bed with me so I didn't have to get out of bed to get dressed

Yes - and bed-socks, and coats on the bed for warmth.

I have water bottles now when it's below freezing and the children love them. No ice on the inside of the windows though.

Yup. I was born in the early 80s but our house had single glazing till I was about ten and we didn't get central heating till early 00s. Always got frost and ice on my bedroom window

Totally remember this, I was born in the late 1960s. We always had ice on the inside of the windows in winter. We would have blankets piled on us, no duvets back then, my sisters and I would get into bed with each other to keep warm.
My mum would get up early to light the coal fire and we'd run downstairs in out night clothes and huddle round the fire.
We also had an outside loo, which was freezing, we had a pot under the bed for having a wee but if you needed a number 2 you had to go outside in the night but we always went in together cos it was scary.
We didn't have a bathroom, we had a bath weekly in my nans tin bath which hung on her garden fence and was carried into her kitchen.
My mum used to wash us inbetween baths in the kitchen sink, we would sit on the draining board on a tea towel, as the draining board was cold on your bum. Happy days 😉

Same as above, grew up in 80s and had this, but the house was always warm, and always had central heating, hot water bottles and quilts, but single glazing and probably very little insulation

Yes. I was a teen in the '80s and we had this frequently. I wasn't allowed any extra blankets because I had a duvet and that was supposed to be enough. As a result, I will happily leave the heating on overnight and we all have extra blankets "just in case."

The first house I lived in had an outdoor loo, a tin bath by the wood burning range, no electric and no actual floor downstairs, just slabs on the earth. This meant not only was there ice in the windows, but ice on the floor on cold mornings.

I was born in 1990 in the uk.

Yes, well into the 90’s. My parents didn’t get central heating until I moved out 🤔

We had this in the 90's / 00's, mum didn't get central heating until 2012, after I'd moved out. Hot water bottle, sleeping bag and quilt on top, then upgraded to an electric blanket as a teenager. If I left a drink out, it would also freeze over on cold nights.

Yes we had ice on the inside of our windows in the 70's, the only heating I recall having in the house was the gas fire in the living room and an electric heater high on the wall in the bathroom. Parents used to light the gas rings on the stove to warm the kitchen and we would all get dressed in front of the fire.

I don't remember ice on the windows but I do remember having to have a hot water bottle through the winter, and leaving clothes on the radiator over night so that they were warm in the morning when I grabbed them and got dressed under the covers. (growing up in the 90s)

Yes I was born in 1959 and remember ice on inside of windows. Our breath would freeze too. There was a fire in the living room and a Rayburn in the kitchen and those were the only warm rooms. I remember racing to the loo down the freezing hallway to get back into a heated room as quickly as possible. There was a belief in my family and others that central heating made you weak in body and mind!

Oh yes...awful days....we had some useless solid fuel thing which heated only 2 radiators...one in kitchen and one in bathroom...going to bed was misery....now i dont care...i will be warm...central heating on and log burner and real fires....i dont know how we survived, it was so cold....drafty windows also...sheepskin coat over blankets etc !!