We had a twin tub in the 60s with a separate mangle and one of those pulley racks that hung from the kitchen ceiling. It was used for drying washing and airing ironing too.
Can't believe no-one's mentioned one of those yet.
There was a line outside but washing was done on Monday evenings after both parents got home from work so most of the year it couldn't be hung outside - too cold/wet/dark.
As for you @bédé - this forum does both info and chat. Some threads just stay factual and give advice, help, opinions but others, such as this one, lend themselves to going off at all sorts of interesting tangents. You don't have to carry on reading it or commenting. Easy enough to stick to the straight threads if that's where you're happier.
My nan had a mangle and still used it in the 80s. Washing day when I was little was Saturday. Every Saturday morning without fail I would be woken by the twin tub in its spin (a terrible noise in my memory). My mum had to hold onto the machine to stop it moving across the kitchen.
We had a twin-tub until about 1999 when my father finally agreed to buy an automatic. I put my asbestos hands down to doing the washing when my mum finally picked her career back up and left the kitchen.
@bédé - in a world where senses of community and belonging are becoming more fractured, it is comforting to find a place where nonsense chit-chat can be found and particpated in online. Four days out of five, since last February, I see no one but my OH and rarely leave the house (WFH continues until who knows when) so I find solace and relief in forums such as this. No one is forcing you to read these discussions.
We used to have a whirly. Then the dog learnt with a run up and jump she got a swing around ride until the pegs snapped. Now we have a fluorescent orange line so I can't miss it and walk into it. Have to keep cutting the honeysuckle back so it doesn't take over.
I grew up in a house too where we had to hang on the washer to stop it ending up in the lounge.
And we had one of those electric spinner barrel things. It was primrose yellow and quite scary (when I was six) for the furious noise it made at full spin. You put a curious heavy, grey rubber disk over the clothes before shutting the lid - I can still remember the smell of it. It was one of those historical machines that seemed to disppear from households over the years, I guess as washing machines got more effcient.
YES! I'd forgotten about the rubber disk. I also remember my mum washing all of the different "loads" in the same water. No wonder I am obsessed with cleanliness! @Fire
The green man. I don't understand OH. nor WFH. I'm forced to sift through the rubbish in order to find a good answer.
Oh go away. Google it. You can clearly use a computer and have the internet. By the time you typed that snidy, passive-agressive reply you could have found the answer.
The only person 'forcing' you to do it @bédé is you.
There are other gardening forums out there but I haven't found one as good a source of sound knowledge nor irrevant humour nor mindless chit-chat (balm for the soul on a difficult day) as this one....
...and it's free (hurrah) - provided by a commercial business who rely on the advertising to pay for it. Many of us have been using it for years and it would be disloyal for regular contributors to recommend rival forums.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
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"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
”I’m forced to sift through the rubbish.”
Hmm. Who’s forcing you? And whose rubbish are you talking about?
Oh go away. Google it. You can clearly use a computer and have the internet. By the time you typed that snidy, passive-agressive reply you could have found the answer.
Greenman: The onus is on the writer to be clear, not the reader.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
There are other gardening forums out there but I haven't found one as good a source of sound knowledge nor irrevant humour nor mindless chit-chat (balm for the soul on a difficult day) as this one....
...and it's free (hurrah) - provided by a commercial business who rely on the advertising to pay for it. Many of us have been using it for years and it would be disloyal for regular contributors to recommend rival forums.