Comments on: When Bettys was Betty’s, and other 1930s ads http://yorkstories.co.uk/bettys-and-other-1930s-ads/ A resident's record of York and its changes Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:45:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: stephen http://yorkstories.co.uk/bettys-and-other-1930s-ads/#comment-11701 Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:36:02 +0000 http://yorkstories.co.uk/?p=3329#comment-11701 “Gas water heaters”1930’s Milner St Acomb,usually sited over the back kitchen sink,a white enamelled tube,2 feet long x about 1 foot Dia,connected to gas and water mains.Switch on /gas burner lights delivering instanty warmed water via a small dia.
bent pipe for as long as required.Just like todays central heating and hot water system such as the
Worcester doing a grand job in our house today.

Very handy in getting a bath in a “Bathless”house.
Get the galvanised tub off the back’Yarden’wall,
position next to sink,swing over hot water pipe,run as long as required to fill tub,and”Voila” one lovely hot tub to bathe in.
That was my ladies life growing up ,keeping clean as a whistle in tough times!Those gadgets were well before their time.

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