My Nan used to have a mangle...

You mean she got her tits out, as she did in most of her films

 

Walkabout now theres a good Aguter movie!!

 

Railway children xxx lol

 

Apart from some recent door seal incontinence, fine.

 

Not sure if my chapati had one

 

When I was a kid, we had a gas copper for washing the clothes and a copper stick made from holly for stirring the clothes.

The old mangle was out the back, it had wood rollers and it worked a treat.

I remember the excitement when we got a spin dryer, but still used the mangle for the big stuff.

I think Monday was wash day and Friday was bath night.

Such great times, all this modern stuff nowadays is overwhelming people, simple life is best.

Also remember the mats were hung over the washing line and we used to beat the dust out of them.

 

I've got a mangle in the back garden. Used to work but one of the bearings is rusted up now. Anyone know how to unseize it without cracking the cast iron?

We used to have a telly with a rotary knob on the side for changing chanels - 5 for BBC, 8 for ITV.

Pre-central heating in those days, we had a Rippingill parafin heater. Anyone remember those?

 

blow torch...

 

Thanks, I'll give it a try sometime!

 

Ive gota a washing dolly somewhere its a pole/handle with a rounded / domed end with holes init , they used to pump it up n down n twist it round and round in the wash bucket to clean the clothes i see if i can find a pic of one .

 

Me grandma had a top loading washer with a powered mangle on top. I once while helping managed to feed my hand between the rollers, it's feature to spring open when something to think went through failed. My hand was a bit purple after.

 

Gah! Thank God Kleenex was invented.

 

A little Allison 250 would fit nicely in a bus, I've always thought. Would have to gear it down a bit, tho'...

 

Me grandad shaved in the kitchen as they didn't have a power outlet in bathroom

 

We had an Ascot water heater in the kitchen. Luxury. No hot water otherwise, unless you "put the immersion on".

 

still got one...decomissioned...it's a thing of 60's vitreous beauty....don't ask for a pic...it's saturday night...think how that would affect my gadabout credibility

 

Get it working! Ours had two heat settings: ambient and 99ºC. Nothing in between.

 

Those were the days! When you were either scalded or ran the risk of legionaires....good times

 

We had a twintub, the main drum kept the same water until it was dark grey and you pumped it out. The spinner had to be filled from a hose and my mum left it filling and flooded the kitchen regularly. The water was always deeper in the cupboard under the stairs. Years later she had a serious gas leak in the floor below that cupboard, all the water had rotted the gas main that was buried in the screed.

 

Our twin tub used to keep my mum fully occupied on Mondays. About an hour was spent actually washing. The rest was spent swapping hoses, pumping and fishing odd socks out with the tongs.

Thank God front loaders were invented.