Wigan Album

Wouldn't mind one of those sinks for planting Alpine plants in. Mind you they are popular in kitchens of today. That little lad is getting a bit too big for sitting in the sink! Looking back that's just what people did without complaint!

Seems to be enjoying himself and not a bit camera shy.
I have one of those sinks for alpines Veronica, I covered it with hypertufa and it looks great.

I take it that stuff is to stop the sink cracking in freezing weather Cyril. So much nicer than plastic pots. Even earthenware plant pots are hard to get hold of.

Veronica, it covers over the white glaze and makes it look like an old stone trough, for hypertufa mix together cement, peat, and coarse sand with water i.e. 1 part of each and water to a workable mix. For these sinks you have to scrape off some of the glaze for the mix to adhere, a bonding agent (PVA) applied after scraping helps too.

Sounds like a bit of hard work that Cyril - I bet it looks nice though. I wouldn't mind leaving it white - if I had one! It would match my original chimney pot that I've painted white - which is peeling off and makes it look like 'shabby chic'! ;o))

We take so much for granted these days, and yet we have the nerve to moan that we haven't got enough. We have too much today because we're obsessed with consuming and having the latest flat screen TV, some stupid iphone and brand 30k SUV (on finance) on the driveway. Yet people back then were generally happier no doubt, and we were more community spirited. Didn't think this way of bathing was still commonplace in the 1960s. I bet that sink would be worth a few bob or two today lol.