AUCTION Your chance to spend a penny.......
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- Mrs C.
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AUCTION Your chance to spend a penny.......
This is your chance to spend a penny (hopefully lots of them!) in the Forum`s first (and probably last!) CH Memorabilia Auction!
The people in the Health Centre (as it is now known) have been having a good clear out recently, and today I`ve aquired an interesting piece of CH memorabilia - which will be of particular interest to the " They`ve got it soft these days " brigade.
The item in question is a pre-1985 toilet roll - I have no idea how old it is, but every sheet is printed with the words Silver Silk, a crown and Christ`s Hospital. I`m sure someone will be able to date it.
I thought it might be a fun idea, coming up to Christmas , to auction it on the Forum , with all monies going to Forum funds (minus my p&p costs to the winning bidder)
(sorry- not a very good photo)
So.... dig deep into the bowels of your wallets, and hope this auction will be flushed with success!
The auction will end at 10pm (CH time!) on Wednesday 21stNovember and bids may be placed either on the forum or PM`ed to me and I will post an anonymous bid so that everyone is kept up-to-date. The winning bidder will be whoever has offered the highest amount at that time.
Lurkers - it`s time for you to come out of the plumbing and register in order to bid!
Yes, I AM serious!
And to one forum member in particular - I did say it would be crap didn`t I, but I hadn`t expected this!!
The people in the Health Centre (as it is now known) have been having a good clear out recently, and today I`ve aquired an interesting piece of CH memorabilia - which will be of particular interest to the " They`ve got it soft these days " brigade.
The item in question is a pre-1985 toilet roll - I have no idea how old it is, but every sheet is printed with the words Silver Silk, a crown and Christ`s Hospital. I`m sure someone will be able to date it.
I thought it might be a fun idea, coming up to Christmas , to auction it on the Forum , with all monies going to Forum funds (minus my p&p costs to the winning bidder)
(sorry- not a very good photo)
So.... dig deep into the bowels of your wallets, and hope this auction will be flushed with success!
The auction will end at 10pm (CH time!) on Wednesday 21stNovember and bids may be placed either on the forum or PM`ed to me and I will post an anonymous bid so that everyone is kept up-to-date. The winning bidder will be whoever has offered the highest amount at that time.
Lurkers - it`s time for you to come out of the plumbing and register in order to bid!
Yes, I AM serious!
And to one forum member in particular - I did say it would be crap didn`t I, but I hadn`t expected this!!
The best way to forget your troubles is to wear tight shoes.
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Re: AUCTION Your chance to spend a penny.......
This was Mrs C's 2000th postMrs C. wrote:This is your chance to spend a penny (hopefully lots of them!) in the Forum`s first (and probably last!) CH Memorabilia Auction!
The people in the Health Centre (as it is now known) have been having a good clear out recently, and today I`ve aquired an interesting piece of CH memorabilia - which will be of particular interest to the " They`ve got it soft these days " brigade.
The item in question is a pre-1985 toilet roll - I have no idea how old it is, but every sheet is printed with the words Silver Silk, a crown and Christ`s Hospital. I`m sure someone will be able to date it.
I thought it might be a fun idea, coming up to Christmas , to auction it on the Forum , with all monies going to Forum funds (minus my p&p costs to the winning bidder)
(sorry- not a very good photo)
So.... dig deep into the bowels of your wallets, and hope this auction will be flushed with success!
The auction will end at 10pm (CH time!) on Wednesday 21stNovember and bids may be placed either on the forum or PM`ed to me and I will post an anonymous bid so that everyone is kept up-to-date. The winning bidder will be whoever has offered the highest amount at that time.
Lurkers - it`s time for you to come out of the plumbing and register in order to bid!
Yes, I AM serious!
And to one forum member in particular - I did say it would be crap didn`t I, but I hadn`t expected this!!
"If a man speaks, and there isn't a woman to hear him, is he still wrong?"
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I didn't know that, but somehow I'm not surprised. It was like wiping your bum with tinfoil!Mrs C. wrote:Did you know that soft loo roll was introduced when the girls from Hertford arrived?
Just another gem of information I picked up yesterday.
Apologies to more delicate members of the forum, but the truth will out...
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By 1965 we had progressed to rolls, but it was still the shiny on one side, matt on the other, not very absorbent, and thoroughly unpleasant to use stuff.midget wrote:When was soft loo-roll introduced at Hertford? We had precut sheets of something unyielding, stashed in little wooden boxes.
I remember writing lines on some as a protest against the perceived injustice of the punishment. Total waste of time - had to rewrite them, of course.
xx
I think house mistresses ordered supplies from a list. Some houses had carbolic soap in the cloakroom, while others had something nicer. Maybe it was the same with loo paper.
All a luxury to me. At home, we still had torn-up newspaper in our outside loo. (Cue cries of "we used to dream about torn up newspaper").
All a luxury to me. At home, we still had torn-up newspaper in our outside loo. (Cue cries of "we used to dream about torn up newspaper").
Mary
CH 1965-1972
CH 1965-1972