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Following floodlights did for me trying to find Ayrsome Park for a night game. I did not realise how many railway marshalling yards in Middlesbrough had floodlight pylons.

Whilst we had cold water taps, there was no hot water out of the bath taps in summer. This was because the hot water tank was heated from a small tank behind the coal fire - and there was no fire in summer. So the 'copper' had to be filled and heated up. Then buckets were filled and taken...

Spin drier . There used to be the household exercise machine called 'the mangle'.

Fitted carpet. You can now shuffle or stagger across it. In t'old days you had to athletically hop from rug to rug.