On 3/9/2018 10:42 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:

>> We lived in a cottage with no electricity and no hot running
>> water. We had a huge black iron fireplace with an oven on one
>> side, but we had a gas cooker in a small kitchen. We had gas lamps
>> too)
>>
>> My mother used to use the Laundrette for our clothes.
>>
>
> My father's parents only had kerosene lamps and 1 gas lamp. They had
> a pot bellied stove in the parlor. The bedrooms had no heat.
>

My father's parents house had a coal stove in the kitchen. They would
put a brick on the stove and take it to the bedroom and put it under the
covers for heat at night. The only water and toilet was a shed off the
kitchen.