Casgliadau Arlein

Mounted photographic copy of a vView of woman wearing checked dress, with wash tub.

Caption from exhibition "Washing Tub and Mrs E. Hitchings (Leigh Harris) Clare Jones - Haydn Phillips was interviewed. 'We washed clothes every week on a Monday. First we got a bucket of cold water and it was heated in a boiler on the coal fire. When it boiled, it was put in a wooden tub and a 'dolly' was used to pound the clothes. Soap was used and sometimes a scrubbing board. Washday was a long day! It needed several buckets of boiling water for each wash and a wooden mangle was also used to get the water out of the clothes. 'Whites' had to be boiled in a bucket on the fire. Ironing was done with a flat iron which had to be heated by the fire. All shirts usually had their collars starched.'"