Bath  night  was usually Friday night. The tin bath would be unhooked from its nail in the back-yard   wall, brought into the house and placed on the clippy mat in front of the roaring coal fire. Hot water would be ladled into the bath from the boiler at the side of the cast-iron range, mam would sit on her cracket (a small wooden stool), and  proceed  to wash the children. No modesty here, boys and girls got into the same bath and the same water. They were washed and scrubbed with carbolic soap, rinsed  with luke-warm water, then given a brisk rub-down with  a course towel, night attire donned, supper, then off to bed.