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Post by gercollinsfurlong on Jan 7, 2010 23:08:51 GMT
Hi Joey Now the sister will really rub it in maybe i wont let her read this page. I really seem to be loosing it now getting the house numbers mixed up i do know we lived i number 19 and 47 connolly but cant remember which was which. GERALDINE
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Post by gercollinsfurlong on Jan 7, 2010 23:29:41 GMT
Hi Tommy Glad i not the only one who cant remember. But i do remember the other bath house what a cold place that was always a quick dip and i will always remember the smell of the carbolic soap Mrs ford also worked there could you imagine having to go up now to have a bath GERALDINE
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Post by andybrennan on Jan 7, 2010 23:39:20 GMT
Hi Johnny Kelly at last a posting pity not under other circumstances.
You will be as young as me next Saturday
Andy
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Post by mary carroll on Jan 7, 2010 23:50:36 GMT
Hi All, I too remember the laundry and bath house behind the Garrison, I can't remember the woman that ran it but I use to do a bit of work there, I had to press all the army shirts, don't think I worked there long, and I remember the smell of the carbolic soap, well I loved the smell of it, sad person that I am.
Mary C
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Post by rose5mcdonaghtce on Jan 8, 2010 0:30:21 GMT
Hi Joey.
Were there no facilities in the billets for the lads to wash, can remember my Dad and Tom Coyle God rest their souls, going on about when they joined up, how they would have to break the ice on the troughs to shave in the winter, surely they were doing a bit of leg pulling even back in the late 30's there must have been sinks in the billets. Remember the lads heading down in the brown fatigues with the towels rolled under their arms heading out from the depot.
Can also remember a certain Sgt in the depot one Friday morning roaring at a recruit "When you draw your pay to-day, before you rush off to the post office to send it home to your mother stop off at the shop and buy a bar of soap and wash your neck unless you want me to do it for you, a bottle of parazone and some steel wool should do it".
Had a few baths in the Ceannt facility, freeze you even in Summer, always found them eerie, like bathrooms in an institution for the bewildered. Better off with the basin and doing the routine of washing down as far as possible, up as far as possible and then wash possible as Mrs. Hanley used to say.
Rose.
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Post by andybrennan on Jan 8, 2010 0:51:32 GMT
Hi Rose I do remember that when I was in signals the toilets and wash facilities were outside at the bottom of the billets facing the garrisson shop and when in McDonagh they were in the hallways of the billets , showers were in the designated ereas once a week Friday if I remember right,
andy
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Post by padtroy on Jan 9, 2010 11:28:29 GMT
hi joey and andy
i rember the only place we got a bath was in the swiming pool which used to cut the eyes out of you or a
hi joey and andy.
i rember the only place we got a bath was the swiming pool which would cut the eyes out of you or go out to the liffey which was freezing those were the days. good luck.
paddy.
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Post by andybrennan on Jan 9, 2010 11:33:46 GMT
Paddy to true,
The Chlorine gave nice red eyes ok
Andy
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