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Haha - I remember we had an extremely thin blanket under our sheet when I was a youngster and it was like laying on a prickly hedgehog.
Bryan was in the forces and I still have ex army blankets which I use as under blankets.
What I haven't seen for years are double bed bolster pillows and ticking pillow cases which had blue stripes on them. I use ordinary white pillow cases as pillow protectors underneath the outer ones.
I remember my grandmother using a long handled copper bed warmer pan that she put hot coals in.
My parents had a pot hot water bottle and I still had it until it vanished with Mr Nobody.
Bryan's parents used to warm a brick in the oven and wrap it in a cloth and use that as a bed warmer.
When we married in 1964 I was given a bed warmer which was a blessing in the freezing cold damp quarters we lived in. It was a white enamelled metal tube punched with holes and inside was an ordinary light bulb - 10 minutes light under the covers prior to getting into bed and it was bliss.
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