shu2601 Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 Hi everyone, I'm a final year history student at sheffield Hallam University, completing a project for the Traditional Heritage Museum on Ecclesall road all about memories of homes in Sheffield, and in particular the many uses of the kitchen; such as it being a place to relax, a place to eat, a place to socialise as a family or a place of work. I was just wondering if anyone wished to share any of these memories to become part of a study (don't worry you'll all remain anonymous) and have your own impact upon one of Sheffields brilliant museums Any reply would be much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scallywags Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 We lived with our grandparents up to around 1955. Their kitchen had a Yorkshire range in it. The one thing that i do remember there was what is now (as then?) called a Belfast sink in the kitchen. When I was small I used to get bathed in it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shu2601 Posted March 27, 2011 Author Share Posted March 27, 2011 That's great, the museum itself has a yorkshire range inside, got a bit of a telling off for trying to call it a cooker the other week haha! thanks for sharing! its been bloomin' difficult to try and get peoples perspectives on the topic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shu2601 Posted March 27, 2011 Author Share Posted March 27, 2011 The more responses I get the more in depth the study can be. Any help is much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linda swallo Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 my grandparents lived on Bannerdale Road, Millhouses and had a large kitchen with a black range in it, a belfast sink with brass taps that my grandfather used to polish religiously every week. They had a large table which had a large bowl underneath it (can;t remember the name of it) used for doing the washing in it with a ponshon (?) in it to do the washing with and a washing board. They never had a washing machine. The kitchen had a door which led down into the cellar which flooded every so often as the house was built on a natural spring. There were shelves at the top of the steps which housed the food. We bought a fridge for my grandparents and every time we went to visit the plug was taken out because they said it wasted electricity!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainbow2411 Posted March 27, 2011 Share Posted March 27, 2011 My home had a tiny kitchen there was only room for 2 gas rings, a sink and a boiler for washing clothes along with a kitchen cabinet. All my mom's lovely baking and cooking was done in our blackleaded yorkshire range with the kettle over the fire, always ready for mashing my dads tea, oh I wish I could go back, just for a little while, such happy memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shu2601 Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 Thats great. My nana was telling me about baking bread in snap tins. she still leaves teacakes or 'biskies' in front of the fire for them to rise! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buck Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 I was born on Stamford Streeet in Brightside in 1931. Our house had four rooms made up of two bedrooms, a live in kitchen,and what Mam called a parlour. The parlour was only used when we had company. It had no fireplace and was heated when needed by a single bar electric portable heater. The kitchen was big enough for a dining table and chairs as well as a small easy chair tucked into a little nook beside the massive fireplace and oven. Ther was no hot running water, so we heated all water from an iron kettle on a hob over the open fireplace. My mother had a hand cranked washing machine which would have given me muscles if Mam would have allowed me to crank it.But that was woman's work and I was male. That would also apply to the front step out onto the pavement. She would donkey stone it religiously every week, as well as black lead the stove. We lived there till 1938 when we moved to a house in Tinsley which had a front garden and a bay window, though little else different. Now as I sit here typing in my New England Ranch, which yo would call a bungalow, with its two bathrooms, gas fired heating, and central air conditioning, two car garage, I think about how happy we were then without any of these things to go wrong. We had a Bush radio we all listened to together. Not like today where we argue like toss which of the 300 channels we're going to watch tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shu2601 Posted March 28, 2011 Author Share Posted March 28, 2011 It's amazing how far we've advanced in technology- as a youngster even i'm shocked at the amount of technology I think theres different social connotations of the kitchen as well, with kids being sent to their room as a punishment, and that also it can be a place of work. My grandfather was a fisherman so used to prepare his daily catch in the kitchen (I was the only 6 year old that had lobster for tea haha) these comments are great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBY Posted March 28, 2011 Share Posted March 28, 2011 Friday night was bath night in our kitchen in the 1960's. A big tin bath was kept in the cellar, hard work filling and emptying though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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