"Fast and remember that the abundance of Heaven’s Table will soon be yours - And I assure you, the food on that Table is better than cabbage soup!"~[RUMI]
I found myself a new hero this week! I bet you never heard of a Londoner called Joseph Clark ("The Posture Master of Pall Mall") ? although he died in 1650 he would have been right at home at the moment in The Leveson Enquiry !
Read a little about him[ here]
This week's Sepia Saturday theme is around kitchens I believe. The terrace houses of West Yorkshire are small.So Kitchens have to include not just the preparation & eating of food but washing;ironing etc as well..You may need to be something of a contortionist .An example,.below, a photo of my Mother-in-Law Jean in her 1950s Halifax Kitchen............
①He was wonderful.
②At the end of the gig he fell over on stage.....
③.On the way home,a wheel of my Renault 5 dropped off on Odsal Roundabout right outside the Police Station.
so it goes............
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The front end of my VW once collapsed as I was pulling out of the post office.
I thought she would never stop pulling those loaves out of the oven. Wonder how big it is.
wow lots going on in that kitchen....
Ian was a wacky, clever bastard, wasn't he?
re: Joseph Clark - what a prankster!
re: Jean in her kitchen - what a great photo! Lovely top loading washing machine!
re: "bread pigs" - I believe the phrase you were looking for was "stop magic porridge pot, stop".... and you could certainly use Joseph Clark to load that incredible infinite bread oven!!
As I look at so many of this weeks SS posts I have found myself saying "our kitchen used to be like that". Indeed I think we still have the weighing scale on the shelf behind Jean in the photograph. Off to discover more about Joseph Clark now.
Oh that naughty Mr Clark! Your M-I-L looks lovely and what a detailed photo of a 1950s kitchen. Actually, one of my earliest memories is of standing in a kitchen like that with my nose level with the counter. That was some bread oven of your auntie’s.
Contortionist, indeed! HA
Our 1950s weighing scales are still in use, but thankfully our modernised late 60s kitchen is bigger than the one you've shown in Halifax.
Great kitchen photo of your MIL, Tony! I had no idea that you have 57 videos on You Tube ... they are going to keep me busy. Loved the one regarding bread baking.
Kathy M.
Oh, your poor aunt and the other woman in your film. They must have terrible back problems!
And that bread just kept coming! Was she wrapping the bread in an old quilt?
And what was that in the big bag?
Nancy
That's a great photo of your mother-in-law and her kitchen.
You are so cool to post your mother-in-law, she looks so happy in her kitchen even if she is pulling the washer over to wash and work...and work! Just love that first video with so many cool photos in it....I have to go back to catch the second one...some how it tossed me out...so I will try again! Tony, a very cool post, I enjoyed it!
So glad I watched the second clip all the way through....a very cool oven, just how it works seems amazing....just stuff them in there apparently....small doorway for a gigantic oven inside! The pigs were so cute, and I had to listen very carefully to hear her say that airplane looking thingy is used to water the land! Cool!
Lively and as entertaining as ever, Tony. I make the bread in this house, but your auntie is the real deal.
What's Daniel O'Donnell doing in that Ian Dury video?!
Good song.
I had the front passenger side wheel fall off my Morris Minor in Dublin. I'd been towing a motorbike to get it started. Luckily it had fired up before the wheel left me rolling up the road. As bad luck would have it, I had a spare engine in the boot, but no spare wheel.
That is a tiny kitchen! How did she ever work around that washing machine? I guess you could close the lid and use it as a cutting board. :-) Oh and I think that guy has his leg permanently stuck behind his ear. I least I know I would be.
I thought my childhood memories of my parents kitchen made it very small, but not THAT small!! Phew!! Contortionist is right. Se could have worked for Cirque du Soleil!!
And that vid: it's not a kitchen, it's a bakery!! The number of loaves she pulled out of that thing?! Whoa!!
Was it any good?
:)~
HUGZ
The Bread Was Good,But Not As Good As The Vodka!
That goes without saying...
;)~
HUGZ
A fun mix. Loved the home grown film, real farm kitchens are hard to find anymore. Using up the oven heat to dry out the pig feed was a neat detail. And Mr. Clark would be right at home distracting us from the scandals and scoundrels.
There is so much reminiscing in this post, very versatile. Am off to see that clip of the Polish kitchen.;)
Hope you have been well dear Tony.;))
xoxo
Thanks Zuzana .all Is Well! xoxo
Your mother-in-law looks so happy in her kitche. I think it looks cozy.
So much to see here today...
Today some people would view Jean's kitchen as an aestetic affront. I see it as glorious(as long as I don't have to cook in it).~Mary
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