Old? Very old.

[Peripheral]

This is a photo of a pre-war washing... machine? My mother had equipment like this and I used to help turn the agitator. What a difference there is now in laundering. I reckon that when I finally snuff it I won't be buried, they will put me in a museum.

 

[captain clutterbuck]

My mum and dad when first married had nothing like this they used to put their clothes in their tin bath and walk a mile and a half to the nearest Wash House do all the washing/drying and walk back the mile and a half with the bath full of clean washing . In those days with a pub on every corner I suspect my dad probably sneaked off for swift half or two!

 

[maltrab]

We were so poor we did not have clothes to wash

 

[Brian Johns]

AHA....so YOU were the one that bought it from Wesley!

 

[ferret]

This is a photo of a pre-war washing... machine? My mother had equipment like this and I used to help turn the agitator. What a difference there is now in laundering. I reckon that when I finally snuff it I won't be buried, they will put me in a museum.

I have one of these in my garden. I keep my garden hoes and canes in it. Couldn't believe the price of one for sale at our local artisan market.

 

[manwinoname]

i think the wooden things that were used to agitate the clothes were called possers , might be a West Yorkshire name ? the actual tubs were called Dolly tubs

 

[dick]

My family originated in W Yorks , I grew up calling them poshers ? We used one of these after a few years of dolly tubs.

 

[Brian Johns]

Never had anything so fancy when I was a lad....... we had the old copper and a hand wringer (small mangle)
I remember in the mid to late 60's, after we had moved to Oz, one of our "posh" neighbours got a new fangled twin-tub with washer and spin dryer!!

 

[RickAns]

Nice, Dick had one with an integrated mangle. What is the square wooden frame next to it for?

I can just hear my dad saying that they would have taken the clothes down to the river and washed them on the rocks. And walked up hill both ways to get there and back!

 

[Peripheral]

i think the wooden things that were used to agitate the clothes were called possers , might be a West Yorkshire name ? the actual tubs were called Dolly tubs

We called them poshers.

 

[billyd601]

I still have one of those tubs, the glass washing board and the brass posser is now in my sons kitchen they used to be in my kitchen but he suddenly wanted them in his for some strange reason?

 

[Peripheral]

I still have one of those tubs, the glass washing board and the brass posser is now in my sons kitchen they used to be in my kitchen but he suddenly wanted them in his for some strange reason?

Maybe his washing machine broke.

 

[manwinoname]

when i were a lad i was in a skiffle band, we used a tea chest as a bass and a washing board that was played with thimbles on your fingers as the drum

 

[Peripheral]

Hey Billy, perhaps he wanted the washboard to start a skiffle group. He will need a tea chest.

 

[Peripheral]

i think the wooden things that were used to agitate the clothes were called possers , might be a West Yorkshire name ? the actual tubs were called Dolly tubs

Well, I don't keep my dolly in one of those things.

 

[Peripheral]

when i were a lad i was in a skiffle band, we used a tea chest as a bass and a washing board that was played with thimbles on your fingers as the drum

Does anybody remember the King of Skiffle?

 

[dick]

Nice, Dick had one with an integrated mangle. What is the square wooden frame next to it for?

The frame was part of the machine It was a fold away lid for the machine.

 

[manwinoname]

he had some great hit records with songs such as
does your chewing gum lose its flavour
my old mans a dustman ,
they dont write songs like these any more !!

 

[dick]

Does anybody remember the King of Skiffle?

You mean Lonnie Donegan !

 

[Peripheral]

You mean Lonnie Donegan !

Yeah, that's the man.