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Going Back in Time MD 2007 Harry and How did Lizzie do the washing? You probably have a washing machine to get Lizzie would have loved to have had a washing Lizzie, Derrick’s mum and dad The laundry copper your clothes clean and perhaps a tumble dryer machine but washing machines like we have now when they were A dolly tub, posser, dolly peg and tongs to get them dry. hadn’t been invented in those days. Lizzie didn’t 50 years old. Going A washboard The dirty clothes go into the washing machinee have electricity either. e Dolly Blue with the washing powder and wheni dthe machine is id A mangle switched on it washes the clothesl clean. l S So what did she S Drying the washing Back In le use instead?le Ironing Do youp think Lizzie p Airing the washing mhad a washing m a machine and tumble Lizzie did aall of her washing in Time The Story of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle by Beatrix Potter S dryer in those days? her littleS kitchen – the one she Part Six Mrs Tiggy-Winkle Links Derrick with his mum when he was just 3 years old. Wash Day called her scullery. Your mum probably uses your washing Here is a picture of what Lizzie The copper had a lid We had a copper in the scullery. It machine whenever she wants to. used and below is a photograph that fit over the metal was brick with a metal bowl inside When grandpa Derrick was a little boy, that was taken in a museum. bowl when it wasn’t and a fire underneath. We had to washing was always done on Mondays. being used. carry a shovel full of hot coals e e e from the main fire in thee kitchen I always did my washing on lid lid lid The grate range and put theli hotd coals in the Mondays. It was hard work grate under the copper. We had to S S S be very careful! S and it always took mele a long le le le time. Before I couldp even start This is called a laundryp p p my washingm I had to heat up coppercopper. It was madem of brick m m a a a a The fire in lots ofS water! and hadS a big metal bowl It alsoS had a place for a S inside with a fire under it to the kitchen heat the water. fire that was used to heat range the water in the bowl. When the water was boiling Can you guess what this is? It has Lizzie dipped a ladle in and filled something to do with washday! it with boiling water. Lizzie called it a dolly tubtub. It was de de a large metal tub andd Lizzieee de li li would put the clothesliid into the tub li S Then she S with the hotS waterl that had been S The bowl inside the S e carried ethe heated eup by the laundry copper. Can youe guess what l copper would be l lle l p waterp and pp thesep are? m filled with water memptied it When grandpamm Derrick was a little boy m a and the fire in the a aa a S S into a dolly there weren’tSS any washing powders, SLizzie had one of these. grate would heat tub. washing tablets or liquids like we have What might she have used it the water up. now. Lizzie had to use a bar of soap. for? When the washing got This is a posserposser. Can you guess what this is? First they had to take wet it became very Once the water, the clothes and the hold of the dolly peg. Lizzie called it a dolly pegpeg. heavy so it was hard soap were in the dolly tub, Lizzie would Then they had to keep work trying to swirl it use her posser to swirl the water and on plunging it up and the clothes around. e Can you guess how somee of her e around in the dolly tub. e lid neighbours used liti whend they down andlid from side to lid The posser had a Slong wooden handle. were doing theS washing? sideS to swish the clothes Lizzie liked her posserS At the bottom was a large copper about as much as they better than the dolly le Once ltheye had the hot water, the le le shape withp holes in it. p p could with the bottom peg. p m msoap and the clothes in the dolly m bit that looks a bit like m aWhen the posser was swirled around, a tub they were ready to start the a legs. aCan you guess why? Sthe water went through the holes and S really hard work of washing the S S The posser was much forced dirt out of the clothes. clothes. It really made their arms ache! lighter than the dolly peg! Some clothes and bedding needed to be boiled to get them clean. They were put into the Sampcopperle and Sleft tol boil,id e sometimes for half a day! Can you see the raised flap of the dolly tub? When there were dirty marks on the collars and cuffs of Harry shirts, Lizzie would put them on this flap and use her block of soap to scrub the Samclothespl clean.e Slide washboard Can you guess what she used her washboard for? Sample Slide Blocks of soap Can you see something hanging over the side of Lizzie’s dolly tub? These were called tongs Lizzie put the dirtiest part What do you think she two pieces of wood joined by a piece of bendy of the clothes over the used it for? metal. Lizzie would use them to pull pieces of washboard. washing outS ofa them hot water.ple Slide Then she took hold of her tongstongs. They were made of bar of soap and scrubbed You shouldWhat recognise else did some Lizzie of use?them! Did you guess? the clothes hard against After the final rinse the washboard to get everything was put, one Sample them clean.Slide thing at a time, through The laundry was rinsed three times to get rid of a mangle to squeeze out the soap. In the last rinse a ‘dolly blue’ (a calico posser the water. bag with a special blue powder in it) was added Sample Slide with all the white washing to keep it bright and How did it work? Lizzie’s mangle had a handle to turn and two rollers. fresh. washboard The dolly blue Sample turned the A smaller tub for smaller loads of washing Sor forl riide water blue but rollers it made it the white laundry even whiter!Sample Slide dolly tub This is a very old advert Each piece of laundry was folded up and then put for another type of mangle between the rollers which were usually made of but it shows you how the wood butS sometimesam coveredpl ewith rubber.Sl Thenid thee nsing. mangle worked. laundry had to be fed between the two rollers. handle Lizzie used one of these too. It’s a mangle. Water Sbeinga squeezedm pout lofe Slide the washing. Here are two pictures to Lizzie would turn the show you how the handle with one Can you guess what job it mangle squeezed water hand and pull the did? out of the washing so Sample Slide laundry through the that it would dry rollers with the other quicker. hand. SampleShe S had ltoi bed verye careful her fingers didn’t get trapped otherwise they would Sample Slide have been crushed between the rollers! Lizzie would catch the pieces of laundry Now people have spin before they fell down dryers and tumble into the bowl that dryers to do the job. she put underneath This picture shows you the mangle. just what it looked like in the back yard that Lizzie Sample Slide shared with her neighbours. And after all that work Lizzie’s was finally Why did she put a ready toS hanga herm washing on theJust washing like this line lady, Lizzie bowl there? to dry. pleused S to dol iherd washinge outside in the summer. When it rained Lizzie dried her washing indoors but it took much longer to dry it infront of the fire. Lizzie had a wooden frame that she called a clothes horsehorse. It had hinges so it could be spread out and left around the fire. clothes While the clothes were drying cloudsSa of msteam would rise up and fill the room!ple Slide Even when the laundry was dry Lizzie’s job still wasn’t finished! Can you guess what she still had to do before her wash day was finished and the laundry was ready to be put away? Do you remember the kitchen range Lizzie had in her back Sroom?ample Slide pan oven Did you notice these? They are Flat irons were made fire of metal and they got irons. Sample Slide ladle very hot on the fire. Here is the range again. Your mummy can set the temperature on her kettle Can you guess why a cloth has been putelectric over iron but Lizzie the handleS on athism iron?ple Scouldn’tli dod that.e A hot water What do you notice? container Did you know that these When Lizzie had finished her with a lid Often the laundry and no tap. were called flat irons ironing she put some things Water had to would get scorched. on her clothes horse to air be ladled out How are they differentflat ironsirons? to infront of the fire.
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