Name something you had in your childhood bathroom that isn't there today?2

[OneUmberJoker]

Shower curtain

A ceramic recessed soap dish, just above the bath.
A cork bath mat. (the feel of it set my teeth on edge)
A wall hung electric heater (useless)
A wooden across the bath rack (good for books)
Brilliant acoustics.

In my present bathroom, I took down a Dimplex wall-mounted fan heater, which had lights in it as well. It had been there for eleven years, left behind by our elderly house sellers, and we had not used it once. I thought about trying to sell it on eBay as a vintage appliance, but it didn't work very well.

Has anyone mentioned the copper water heaters, above the bath? Or have they been referenced by another name? There's one in the film of The Railway Children, when Bobbie says "the house had every modern convenience" (modern for 1905). Also one in Carry on Screaming, when Sergeant Bung bangs his head on it getting out of the bath.

Not something from my childhood bathroom, but a couple of curiosities I've seen in other people's bathrooms:

Lots of framed photos of the family's very sporty daughter in various teams: swimming, netball, hockey, etc.

And I think this beats them all, which I saw in about 2005, which I have never seen anywhere else. A glass toilet cistern which doubles as a fish tank. Yes, really, I kid you not! It was carefully designed (probably custom-made) so that the fish are not sucked out, and it only emptied to about half-empty, when the toilet was flushed. I asked if the fish seemed bothered by this regular disturbance: I was told that those fish lived longer than any others they had had.

We had that as kids as well.

When we moved into our present place,there was a proper safe bathroom wall heater, emersion heater and tanks in the airing cupboard,we kept them, everyone said we were mad (also didn't go for a combi boiler) I think it was 2018, the Beast From The East,-12 several days and nights, frozen pipes, outside,gas central heating gave up,we had a nice warm bathroom and constant supply of hot water for bath/shower/washing up.

They should bring this back. One of the products I miss most in life.

@Giggorata you could also get sticking out attached to a tile soap dishes !

"The slower the flow, the hotter the water."

As my Mum found out when she went to have her first solo bath after a couple of weeks with one arm in a sling and the opposite hand heavily bandaged (dislocated thumb!). She reached into the bath to check the temperature, but managed to put her arm directly into the flow of hot water.

I also remember my Granny getting a heated overhead light for her bathroom. She had no heating, only an open fire in the living room and in winter when you opened the door wlto the hall to go to bed or the loo it was like hitting a wall of ice.
She had lived her whole life there wihout any form of heating in the bathroom and decided in her early 70s that she was going to "treat herself" to a heated light so she didn't have to get out the bath and dressed in the freezing cold. I remember being told not to put it on for long as it cost a fortune to run. Hardy folks then for sure.

No wonder her and my Grandad got washed at the kitchen sink (off the warm living room) every morning and only had a bath once a week.

I’ve got soap on a rope in my shower!
Pedestal mat
No heater
Carpeted floor, also in separate loo.

“Has anyone mentioned the copper water heaters, above the bath? Or have they been referenced by another name? There's one in the film of The Railway Children, when Bobbie says "the house had every modern convenience" (modern for 1905). Also one in Carry on Screaming, when Sergeant Bung bangs his head on it getting out of the bath.”

OMG, this has brought back memories of one of these in a huge house we were squatting in years ago in West Hampstead. It was bigger than me, suspended at a 45 degree angle above the bath and had the most terrifying roar.
I suspect one of the inhabitants had set it up. Gas fired. Explosive scary gas. Flames.
It did literally feel as though having a bath was dicing with death.
I thought I'd buried that trauma…

I've got a soap on a rope too but it's not shaped like a peach.
A local shop sells Brut soap-on-a-rope.

Love the Carry on Screaming reference.
So unexpected.

A bath!!

Ah, this was a quotation from scalt's post.. I must confess, I don't know about the Carry On Screaming thing, but I will look it up.

@Giggorata It's purely incidental, the copper water heater in Carry On Screaming. It drips over Sergeant Bung while he's lying in the bath, recovering from a potion that turns him into a wolf-like creature; and then he bangs his head on it when he tries to get up.

Izal toilet paper.

Carpet. Just why have carpet in a bathroom!!

Crap shower attachment from Woolworths, that always came off the cold.

My parents (80s) still have Talc. Father is talc’d to the max after a shower. It’s like a bloody snowstorm in there!!

I know! Hence why I spent my teenage years looking like someone has scrubbed my face with wire wool. Paired with that apricot scrub that was popular in the 90s and early 2000s I’m surprised I actually had any skin.

Soap on a rope.
A wierd washing line that went from one end of the bath to the other but Was on the ceiling.
A wall of mirrored tiles.

Gibb's tooth powder.

Oh Jesus Christ, the mirrored tiles, they were enough to give you PTSD just by getting in and out of the bath!!

My mum and dad had this monstrosity on the bathroom wall in the 70s!!!

(and I bet you can guess the colour of the bathroom suite!)

We had Andrews' Liver Salts in a tin with a lid you had to lever up with a teaspoon. DSis and I used to make it up and drink it, we quite liked the faintly medicinal taste for some reason.

Also, My Fair Lady scented talcum powder, with one side of the tin more faded than the other. A tall blue plastic lidded "jar" with Radox embossed on the side. And a blueish tub that we used for rinsing hair.

Upstairs bathroom had a big airing cupboard with the hot water tank in. We could climb in and crouch on the shelf above the tank, it was always nice and cosy in there. Like the Hons' cupboard!

Oh the picture panel..lovely
Tiles also went through a phase of picture panels late 70s 80s.
A Flamingo on a background of splash effect tiles.