Dahlem Dorf Museum

Old food tins

 

The museum at Dahlem Dorf shows domestic objects like these lovely old food tins. The numerous flea markets in Berlin usually have pretty old tins for sale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where's the bath?

I liked this roll-away bath under the kitchen sink, manufactured in the 1970s. My Auntie had a bath in her kitchen in her small retirement flat in Eastbourne in the 1960s. It had a hinged wooden lid which on it which was usually closed, and when open hooked up on the wall. I remember kitchens like that in Tyneside flats in Sandyford, Newcastle, in the late 1970s, which also had an outside loo (netty) in the yard downstairs. With homes getting smaller in the UK, I wonder imaginative baths will make a comeback?

 

Here is a photo of the local midwife in 1936, with her certificate for forty years’ service

 

If she’d said push, I would definitely have pushed.

 

The Midwife herself with certificate commemorating forty years' delivering babies

 

Her set of midwife’s instruments are complete with instructions.

The Midwife's instruments and instructions!