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Laundress occupation question please
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Heather | Report | 7 Sep 2008 13:31 |
Can you imagine what it must have been like trying to wash and dry and then iron all those clothes. Hellish. |
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Sue | Report | 7 Sep 2008 13:21 |
I haven't seen that...lol I guess she was one of the lower classes. Her OH had well paid employment I guess that's why they kept on having children! The children, mostly, entered into their father's industry. Good old Mum kept scrubbing the clothes. |
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Heather | Report | 7 Sep 2008 13:16 |
There was also an elite of the trade - lol - women who would rent or buy a mangle - you sometimes see them in the census as a mangle owner - I guess the laundresses would take their washed clothes to the mangle owner to have them wrung. |
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Sue | Report | 7 Sep 2008 13:09 |
Thanks Debbie, |
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♥♥♥Debbie♥♥♥ | Report | 7 Sep 2008 13:03 |
Work |
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Sue | Report | 7 Sep 2008 13:02 |
Thanks Heather, |
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Heather | Report | 7 Sep 2008 12:59 |
My own GGM was a laundress - because my dad was the youngest of a large family -his father was actually born 1873 - my dad, born 1914, could tell me stories of how his father as a child would go out at 5 a.m. in the morning with my GGM collecting laundry from local houses and churches for her to wash at home. |
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Sue | Report | 7 Sep 2008 12:55 |
Thanks Alistair, had a look at that pic. |
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Alistair | Report | 7 Sep 2008 12:47 |
More likely in a "steamie" (or English equivalent). |
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Sue | Report | 7 Sep 2008 12:16 |
Thanks Keith, |
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KeithInFujairah | Report | 7 Sep 2008 12:15 |
Yes more than likely in their own homes. Could be any sort of property, terraced house or whatever. She would have taken in washing from nearby. |
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Sue | Report | 7 Sep 2008 12:13 |
Would ladies employed as a laundress all their lives, and lived in different areas, have worked in their own homes? |