Sayings from back in the day you rarely hear...

[Niigata Jack]

Both my grans called it that, they also both had a pantry in their scullery as well, one nan is still alive as well, 94 this year.

Pantry, Larder same difference IIRC

 

[Niigata Jack]

My dad used to refer to the Halifax Building Society in Port Talbot as the rowing boat club.

Because your money went "in, out, in, out".

Still on the subject of money, my grandfather always used to recommend investing in "savings sirstificates".

I walked through part of Neath around 3 ish today, Halifax is now closed in Queen St and so is everything else from what I could see, when I moved up here 40 odd yrs. ago it was a vibrant little town, what a difference these days M&S has gone and there's just nothing there anymore, place is like a ghost town.

I've had a titful of the place, I'd move tomorrow if I could.

 

[exiledclaseboy]

My Nan used to call the kitchen of her two bed Victorian terrace "the scullery" which I always thought was weird.

Aye, we had a scullery as well but it wasn’t the kitchen it was a small room just off it. Then the council refurbished the house and it lost that name and became known as “out the back room”. These days it would be called a “utility room” I suppose.

 

[Darran]

I used the word ‘quim’ on twitter this morning.
What great word that is.

 

[J_B]

A scullery is the adjoining room to the kitchen in posh houses where the washing up and other menial tasks are done. Those tasks are performed by the scullery maid.

 

[MajorR]

I walked through part of Neath around 3 ish today, Halifax is now closed in Queen St and so is everything else from what I could see, when I moved up here 40 odd yrs. ago it was a vibrant little town, what a difference these days M&S has gone and there's just nothing there anymore, place is like a ghost town.

I've had a titful of the place, I'd move tomorrow if I could.

Llanelli is pretty horrendous these days too. I think there needs to be a rethink on business rates, maybe tax the monster out of town sheds at a higher rate and lower the taxes on high street properties to try and encourage business people to open shops etc in our town centres. I’d also look at making car parking really affordable.

 

[Squarebear]

L

I used the word ‘quim’ on twitter this morning.
What great word that is.

You are Geoffrey Chaucer and I claim my five pounds

(You're right 'n 'all. It's an excellent word).

 

[Squarebear]

A scullery is the adjoining room to the kitchen in posh houses where the washing up and other menial tasks are done. Those tasks are performed by the scullery maid.

Actually this was one of the things that I thought was weird about my Nan calling her kitchen the scullery.

In her teens and twenties she'd been a scullery maid. She ought to have known the difference.

 

[Darran]

L

You are Geoffrey Chaucer and I claim my five pounds

(You're right 'n 'all. It's an excellent word).

Thank you my friend.

 

[Niigata Jack]

I used the word ‘quim’ on twitter this morning.
What great word that is.

Talking about yourself again was you

 

[Niigata Jack]

Llanelli is pretty horrendous these days too. I think there needs to be a rethink on business rates, maybe tax the monster out of town sheds at a higher rate and lower the taxes on high street properties to try and encourage business people to open shops etc in our town centres. I’d also look at making car parking really affordable.

When you consider places like Aberdare and Treorchy and down west you got Carmarthen and especially Narberth are bustling and then look at Bridgend, Neath and Llanelli's ghost towns, yes you can perhaps blame the out of Town areas, but you need to travel if you're based in Neath M&S closing is a massive loss, yes Llantrisant as a big shopping centre and Merthyr has for those in Aberdare and Treorchy but they are still busy.

 

[Robbie]

Parlour , the posh front room for guests on a Sunday Afternoon tea gathering .

Scullery yes , seem to recall it being called the back kitchen when I heared my parents talking .

Coalman tipping a cwt of coal into the outside bunker and I had to shovel it into a tin bucket to get to the fireplace .

Slave labour these days I suppose .