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The weekly washday
By Priscilla Alderson,
Nursery World,
7 April 2005
Right into the 20th century children helped with the family's weekly washday. Bessie Wallis remembers being six years old in 1910. 'I hated Mondays because this was wash day. All the clothes were first heavily soaked, then rubbed by hand on the rubbing board. This was repeated in fresh water before they were laboriously loaded into the large, copper boiler.'
Right into the 20th century children helped with the family's weekly washday. Bessie Wallis remembers being six years old in 1910. 'I hated Mondays because this was wash day. All the clothes were first heavily soaked, then rubbed by hand...
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