There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London, which used to
> have a gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a
> fair trial of course) to be hanged. The horse-drawn dray, carting the
> prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray
> outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''.
> If he said YES, it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD. If he declined, that
> prisoner was ON THE WAGON.
>
> So there you go ... More bleeding history.
>
>
>
> They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to
> all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery.
> If you had to do this to survive you were "**** poor", but worse than that
> were the really poor folk, who couldn't even afford to buy a pot, they
> "Didn't have a pot to **** in" and were the lowest of the low.
>
>
>
> The next time you are washing your hands and complain because
> the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things
> used to be.
>
> Here are some facts about the 1500’s: Most people got married
> in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and they still smelled
> pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides
> carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today
> of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
>
>
>
> Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of
> the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons
> and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By
> then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence
> the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!"
>
>
>
> Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw piled high, with no wood
> underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats
> and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it
> became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
> Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop
> things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the
> bedroom, where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed.
> Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some
> protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt.
> Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "dirt
> poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter
> when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their
> footing. As the winter wore on they added more thresh until, when you opened
> the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in
> the entrance. Hence: a thresh hold.
>
> (Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
>
>
>
> In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle
> that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things
> to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would
> eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight,
> then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been
> there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: ''Peas porridge hot, peas porridge
> cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old''. Sometimes they could
> obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over
> they would hang up their bacon, to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a
> man could, "Bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with
> guests and would all sit around talking and ''chew the fat''.
>
>
>
> Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid
> content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead
> poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the
> next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
>
>
>
> Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt
> bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or
> ''The Upper Crust''.
>
>
>
> Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination
> would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking
> along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They
> were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would
> gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.
> Hence the custom of ''Holding a Wake''.
>
>
>
> England is old and small and the local folks started running out
> of places to bury people, so they would dig up coffins and would take the
> bones to a bone-house and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1
> out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they
> realised they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on
> the wrist of the corpse, thread it through the coffin and up through the
> ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard
> all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus someone could
> be, ''Saved by the Bell ''or was considered a ''Dead Ringer'' And that's
> the truth.
>
> Now, whoever said history was boring ! ! !
>
> So ..... get out there and educate someone!
>
> have a gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows (after a
> fair trial of course) to be hanged. The horse-drawn dray, carting the
> prisoner, was accompanied by an armed guard, who would stop the dray
> outside the pub and ask the prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''.
> If he said YES, it was referred to as ONE FOR THE ROAD. If he declined, that
> prisoner was ON THE WAGON.
>
> So there you go ... More bleeding history.
>
>
>
> They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to
> all pee in a pot and then once a day it was taken and sold to the tannery.
> If you had to do this to survive you were "**** poor", but worse than that
> were the really poor folk, who couldn't even afford to buy a pot, they
> "Didn't have a pot to **** in" and were the lowest of the low.
>
>
>
> The next time you are washing your hands and complain because
> the water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things
> used to be.
>
> Here are some facts about the 1500’s: Most people got married
> in June, because they took their yearly bath in May and they still smelled
> pretty good by June. However, since they were starting to smell, brides
> carried a bouquet of flowers to hide the body odour. Hence the custom today
> of carrying a bouquet when getting married.
>
>
>
> Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of
> the house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other sons
> and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the babies. By
> then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone in it. Hence
> the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water!"
>
>
>
> Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw piled high, with no wood
> underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the cats
> and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it rained it
> became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof.
> Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs." There was nothing to stop
> things from falling into the house. This posed a real problem in the
> bedroom, where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed.
> Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some
> protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. The floor was dirt.
> Only the wealthy had something other than dirt. Hence the saying, "dirt
> poor." The wealthy had slate floors that would get slippery in the winter
> when wet, so they spread thresh (straw) on floor to help keep their
> footing. As the winter wore on they added more thresh until, when you opened
> the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was placed in
> the entrance. Hence: a thresh hold.
>
> (Getting quite an education, aren't you?)
>
>
>
> In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle
> that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things
> to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much meat. They would
> eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot to get cold overnight,
> then start over the next day. Sometimes stew had food in it that had been
> there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme: ''Peas porridge hot, peas porridge
> cold, peas porridge in the pot, nine days old''. Sometimes they could
> obtain pork, which made them feel quite special. When visitors came over
> they would hang up their bacon, to show off. It was a sign of wealth that a
> man could, "Bring home the bacon." They would cut off a little to share with
> guests and would all sit around talking and ''chew the fat''.
>
>
>
> Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid
> content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead
> poisoning and death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the
> next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.
>
>
>
> Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt
> bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or
> ''The Upper Crust''.
>
>
>
> Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination
> would sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking
> along the road would take them for dead and prepare them for burial. They
> were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the family would
> gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they would wake up.
> Hence the custom of ''Holding a Wake''.
>
>
>
> England is old and small and the local folks started running out
> of places to bury people, so they would dig up coffins and would take the
> bones to a bone-house and reuse the grave. When reopening these coffins, 1
> out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the inside and they
> realised they had been burying people alive. So they would tie a string on
> the wrist of the corpse, thread it through the coffin and up through the
> ground and tie it to a bell. Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard
> all night (the graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus someone could
> be, ''Saved by the Bell ''or was considered a ''Dead Ringer'' And that's
> the truth.
>
> Now, whoever said history was boring ! ! !
>
> So ..... get out there and educate someone!
>
A Little Bit of History
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