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Depicted in this painting.

A picture of life in the late thirties.

A bath in front of a living room fire on a Saturday night.

The tin bath carried in to the living room brought in to use form its hanging place of a nail on the wall outside or in the coal house.
Bathrooms had been introduced into confines of the main house.

These houses built in the early thirties started to give the comfort so desired of the working class. But alas no added luxury of central heating those times. bathrooms were more like being in an ice house than a sauna.

In wintertime it was pure luxury of the added pleasure of warm coal fire blazing in the back ground.

On tin Bath Night

The simple addition of more boiling water to prolong the ecstasy.

A fire made up with small coal from the river Ebbw.

washed down from the valley mining washeries. Which was made up into small round balls. Which hissed when placed on the fire. But What a fire it made.

One would listen to the radio.

"In Town tonight" The famous catch words of the playing radio program.

Once again we stop Londons Traffic to be in Town Tonight.

Those were the day's.

Remember once again one cannot go back in time.

only in the memory of your own mind.---- Live and live then for today to Hell with tomorrow--- or Heaven.

Newport Born Poet W. H. Davies.In his poem Leisure.

Observed and Wrote it all when he wrote the following words.

"What of this life but full of care,

We have no time to stand and stare,

No time to stand beneath the boughs

And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see when woods we pass.

Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

no time to turn at beauty's glance,

And watch her feet how she can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can enrich

that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if full of care.

We have no time to stand and stare.

Take Care you good People.

One eye only on the past your only blind in one eye!. Forget the past and your blind in both eyes!.

Painting oil on canvas