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Topic Started: Feb 17 2011, 07:49 PM (403 Views)
aitch
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what do you remember about the old times, do you think the modern generation could cope with doing a full day washing with these appliances.
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Oh heck. We're off on a nostalgia trip. :thumbs:

Well obviously, I remember the old dolly tub, wash-board and mangle as my poor hard-working mother had to use them. A lot of my nostalgic memories are stored in the stories I've written about when I was a child, but I've still got one of those galvanised buckets which I use to mop my floors.

My mum used to use a big block of Fairy soap to scrub the collars and cuffs of shirts and blouses. Washing day doesn't smell quite the same now as it did then. :wink:
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charlie
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My wife manages okay with ours, mind you she keeps saying it needs greasing :lol:

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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

My mum upgraded to a table-top mangle which meant that the mangle, by use of a posh lever, dropped the mangle upside down and the top could be used for baking on as it was made of a hard wood. :E Can't find a picture though. :)
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Ann
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yeh my mother used one of those with somthin called a posser she would put in the dolly tub to make suds
I put my pink glasses round ones they were free through the mangle
they was horries free cheep glases was not wering them no way no how :O
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kathleen
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I used to use all them Aitch, when I first got married, I didnt get a electric washing machine till after I had my third child.
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kathleen
Feb 18 2011, 06:54 PM
I used to use all them Aitch, when I first got married, I didnt get a electric washing machine till after I had my third child.
then you would probably have these as well Kathleen ?
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These were taken on the Isle Of Wight...

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charlie
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That was Arreton Barns then Loki
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Life was certainly a lot hard in those times. I'm probably one of the few people who tell a microwave to hurry up! :D
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