Does anyone remember....?

[DatingDinosaur]

Candlewick bedspreads?

Flannelette sheets (the pink/blue striped ones)? The type that caused static electricity with your nylon nightie (no? just me?)

Just in the process of clearing my loft and found a box of these - given to me when I first moved into my house and got everyone's cast offs to 'make do' until I could afford my own stuff.

I suppose the modern equivalent is brushed cotton and fleece throws but oh, the nostalgia!

Awww happy days. Yes I DO remember them @DatingDinosaur Used to have one in the 1970s!

Do you remember these sheets too..........?

We had those striped pillows!

Us too! Stripey sheets AND the pillow cases too!

Me too. I liked plucking lots of stuff, I still have my childhood teddy and panda, both equally bald 😁

Aww loved stripy flannelette sheets. So soft and warm
And candlewick bedspreads

I think everyone who was a kid in the 70s had those sheets. Oh so cosy. We didn’t have central heating and lived in a big stone farm house. My parents had the bedroom above the kitchen so they had the heat from the aga and I was in the room above the living room, which was the only room with an open fire. The chimney came through my room and that was the only source of heat. Single glazed stone mullion windows with ice on the inside. Mum would tell me how lucky I was. She grew up in a house with the only loo not only being outside but a long drop toilet at that!

Brentford Nylons!

Wrote upthread stayed in a farm where they took overnight guests for B and B and I have never forgotten the striped sheets.
It was 1976!

I can remember when we got a carpet in the bathroom and thought it was pure luxury. Ew. Ew. Ew.

I've still got a candlewick bedspread, on the bed in the spare room. The cat likes sleeping underneath it

Do you remember hostess trolleys, for keeping food warm? So useful when having a dinner party!

And what about shopping trolleys - not the metal ones you push in front of you in Tesco, but the smaller canvas ones on a metal frame that housewives would pull along behind them when going from the butchers, to the bakers, to the greengrocers...before the big supermarkets took over.

Here in France people use shopping trolleys (tow along ones) all the time. For the market & for walking to the supermarket.

Who remembers these satin feather filled quilts

We've got a hostess trolley (belonged to a family friend) which we've never used. We just keep stuff on top of it.

I had bed socks my Grandpa knitted! He'd learnt to knit socks when he was in the RAF during the war. My gran knitted socks too but always got him to turn the heel as he was better at it!

I remember my dad boarding up the fireplaces in my grandparents house where we lived at the time. My gran sold her house in 2005 I think and some people were getting fabulous fireplaces if they knew to look.

@FlowersOfSulphur those shopping trolleys are going strong in my little town. Cunningly you can get them so there is a seat incorporated with the bag underneath so you can have a rest or wait for the bus on it. I know some younger people who use them as it makes it convenient to go to the greengrocers or the market

I loved candy stripe flanelette sheets! Ours were always brought out in the Autumn. They were so cosy!
And we had all manner of colours of candlewick bedspreads.

My mum got a hostess trolly before realising that there is a step between every single room downstairs….

Oh yeah, and a matching bathmat, pedestal and toilet lid cover

Sink skirts like this one. Just why?

I replaced a pair of my mum's curtains a few months ago - she bought them in Brentford Nylons in 1972.

Because in my experience, those little table were cheaply made out of some sort of unfinished mdf, and you had to buy a skirt to cover them up. I had a green one.

My childhood bedroom had dusky pink brushed nylon curtains and they were still up when the house was sold in 2016.
Plus this fab wallpaper.



Here's the wallpaper

my mum had fibreglass curtains from Woolworth's stiff things white with huge yellow flowers on and the other pair was yellow and brown striped you just dip washed them

No, but I do remember nylon nighties.