Posted by Adam Quinan on December 18, 2011 at 05:02:55 user Adam.
In Reply to: Re: Newspapers posted by Peter Ceresole on December 18, 2011 at 01:55:55:
Full hot water systems were not universal even in English towns and cities in the 1960s, both my grandmother's house in the centre of a small country town in Somerset and my uncle's in a London suburb had gas hot water geysers in the bathrooms and kitchens rather than a central hot water system.
In Baghdad we had the opposite problem during much of the year. Water was kept in tanks on the flat roof. It was heated by the sun so that it was impossible to get cold water without putting it in the fridge in bottles.