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Hi Frank......

My son-in-law is a long distance runner and gets runners rash on his chest and sometimes on his legs and his coach told him to shower and wash with coal / carbolic soap on the affected areas and he says that it really works..... Clears up the rash in 24 hours..... Just can smell it when he uses it......

Mike

Frank Kelley wrote: Never mind Mike, the old order has not quite gone, you can still buy Coal Tar soap, quite absurd and very Victorian, though, an acquired taste perhaps.

QSAMIKE wrote: OK Frank.... ???????


I'm afraid the flat caps, pigeons and whippets have gone forever!

I have used Wright's Coal Tar Soap off and on since my childhood. Since it stopped being imported into South Africa, my 'British' son has kept me supplied. He added to my stock of the soap on his recent visit, so at least I am not feeling stressed about that aspect of my life.

Wright's Soap is now manufactured in Turkey, which is another indication that the British Empire isn't what it used to be.

Where I came from Wrights Coal Tar Soap was for the "Upper" Working Class, we had to make do with good old Carbolic My wife was a nurse at the Oldham Royal & Boundry Park hospitals, (the old workhouse, but not at that time), and she told me they used to use coal tar soap for bathing the children with chickenpox and Measles to sooth the rash,(she knew Florence Nightingale well)

Just out of interest, where about is "The Ladysmith"? I don't recognise the road.

I remember driving passed the old Ladysmith Barrack's in Ashton, and all that was left was the main entrance gates. I remember some talk about putting a housing estate on the land.

Wombat,
James.

LOL is this thread really still going!

Paul,
I feel the need to apologize for both the hijack of your thread and indeed, the introduction of complete stuff and nonsense, moreover, my shameless advancement of this fine regiment!
Regards Frank

Frank,

I do not consider it a hijack, merely an expansion

Paul

Frank Kelley wrote: LOL is this thread really still going!

Paul,
I feel the need to apologize for both the hijack of your thread and indeed, the introduction of complete stuff and nonsense, moreover, my shameless advancement of this fine regiment!
Regards Frank

Something else we both have in common!

Brett Hendey wrote: I have used Wright's Coal Tar Soap off and on since my childhood. Since it stopped being imported into South Africa, my 'British' son has kept me supplied. He added to my stock of the soap on his recent visit, so at least I am not feeling stressed about that aspect of my life.

Wright's Soap is now manufactured in Turkey, which is another indication that the British Empire isn't what it used to be.