katyjay 5,091 Posted June 8, 2022 Report Share Posted June 8, 2022 I think Chaucer St is off Talbot St? Somewhere around there. The dreaded school dentist was there. I think they did tonsils to Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,494 Posted June 8, 2022 Report Share Posted June 8, 2022 I never went in the Gen Hospital/Postern Street but I remember that bridge; apparently it went from one part of the hospital to the other. You may have gone across it. There's an old thread about Chaucer Street........ https://nottstalgia.com/forums/topic/11756-chaucer-street-horror/?tab=comments#comment-198943 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,203 Posted June 8, 2022 Report Share Posted June 8, 2022 CT, thanks for the reply and info. What I do remember was going in a door, on the left, underneath that bridge. And I'm talking nigh on 70 years ago ! But it's difficult to visualise now that none of it exists. However, it's great to get these jolts of memory and reminders. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,203 Posted June 8, 2022 Report Share Posted June 8, 2022 2 hours ago, katyjay said: I think Chaucer St is off Talbot St? Somewhere around there. The dreaded school dentist was there. I think they did tonsils to Had a look on street view Kath, and Chaucer runs between Goldsmith Street and Clarendon Street. B.x Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MRS B 540 Posted June 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2022 I can also remember Dolly blue bags just dipped in water for wasp stings, and kaolin and morph for upset stomachs, both really worked. Can you even get these things now? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,494 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 I remember when I was young having kaolin and morphine for an upset stomach. It definitely worked; and it looks as though you can still get it today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,335 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 Gripe water was very popular when I was a baby but some people went a step further. A friend with whom I was at Manning told me that her mum habitually put whisky in her feeding bottle and that of her younger brother. Presumably, this was to make the babies sleep. Can you imagine the fall out if mothers were caught doing that today? It wasn't an uncommon practice and, in addition to alcoholic gripe water, it's surprising that some babies were ever awake or haven't grown up into helpless alcoholics. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 4 hours ago, Cliff Ton said: I remember when I was young having kaolin and morphine for an upset stomach. It definitely worked; and it looks as though you can still get it today. Wasn't that a mixture you had to shake before taking? When left afterwards it seperated into 2, white below (chalky looking ) and brown clear above. My mam used to get laudanum to help Chulla sleep as a baby (1939). When youngest brother came along (1955) and she tried to get it for him, it was not available any more. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,494 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 4 minutes ago, katyjay said: Wasn't that a mixture you had to shake before taking? When left afterwards it seperated into 2, white below (chalky looking ) and brown clear above. Now you mention it....I'd forgotten that but yes, it was. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,203 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 38 minutes ago, katyjay said: (chalky looking The reason it were chalky looking is due to it being China clay. The name comes from the original porcelain clay found in Kaolin, China. Found this out when xraying the China clay workers in Cornwall, back in 1978, when I worked for coal board medical services. The clay is used in various forms, such as medicine tablets, glossy magazine coatings, wellingtons as well as for porcelain crockery. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,335 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 No wonder Chulla always looked so laid back! My father suffered with stomach ulcers when I was a child. It was his own fault for eating hot, spicy food. All the GP ever gave him was Aludrox which was, basically, chalk with a minty taste that soon gave way to something less pleasant. I mentioned Aludrox to a GP some years ago. She had never heard of it. It's just Gaviscon nowadays at many times the price and most people seem to be addicted to it, even if they also take prescribed PPIs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,429 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 Laudanum is a mix of alcohol and opium. Victorians rubbed it on the gums of teething babies, that and holding them over an unlit gas jet on the cooker. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,494 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 The Victorians were into all that kind of thing, almost proto-hippies. Sherlock Holmes used Morphine and Cocaine; the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge was heavily into Laudanum and Opium. Using a bit of pot and LSD in the 60s was trivial compared with them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Brew 5,429 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 I've just been reading about ancient remedies for teething babies, as you do, and am amazed 'teething' was given as a quite common cause of death. After suffering some of these practices, it's not really surprising. https://babyology.com.au/health/baby-health/ancient-baby-teething-remedies-were-as-bonkers-as-they-were-brutal/ Worth a look if only for the delightful picture of the toddler… Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 10,335 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 Branwell Bronte got hooked on these substances in Victorian Haworth. All he had to do was nip down to the apothecary. The shop is still there today. In the evenings, it was alcohol at The Black Bull. It is said that he wrote parts of Wuthering Heights and even that the dark side of Heathcliffe's character is based on him. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David sheridan 159 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 @Jill Sparrow youve got me singing Kate bush now , i have to ruffle me hair up for maximum effect though !! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 5,203 Posted June 9, 2022 Report Share Posted June 9, 2022 Just for those who've never seen a China Clay mine, (Kaolin). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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