dave wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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Before central heating you didn't want to get up and go to the
freezing cold kitchen and crack the ice on the milk bottle and come
back to the one room you could afford to heat, (to the point where
undervest, shirt, v-necked waistcoat pullover, a rug over your knees
and a jacket and blanket round your shoulders and fingerless gloves
could just about avoid hypothermia*). So a little gas ring by the
Radio, listening to Hancock's Half Hour, and some Tetley tea bags, and
milk in a jug, with plenty of sugar lumps, made the evening survivable.

*it was known as dying of cold then, and a lot of people did.

Are you sure tea bags were sold in those days? I'm now 64 and I don't
remember tea bags until much later. I remember the bloody cold and
frozen insides of windows though :-(

Dave
you are probably right. IIRC teabags were in in the late 50's


here you go

http://www.tea.co.uk/page.php?id=4

1953 in the UK the first Tetley Tea Bag!