Unusual Words

[KKOB]

And this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbarrow

[Stan]

Just googled dolly tub, couldn't remember what the plunger was called , posser or dolly peg. Brings memories of my Gran 40 odd years ago. then she used a hand mangle.

[Jacqui Harvey]

O.K. I now need a fix of Dolly Blue.  I am getting quite nostalgic for my childhood
http://www.oldandinteresting.com/laundry-blue.aspx

[mike A]

I remember Dolly Blue from my past, along with the Copper to put it in to wash the clothes and the  Wringer to dry the clothes afterwards, two words you never hear now days.
 

[Julesp]

quote:Originally posted by mike A

I remember Dolly Blue from my past, along with the Copper to put it in to wash the clothes and the  Wringer to dry the clothes afterwards, two words you never hear now days.
 

it was called a copper Yes But also a copper boiler
 But the wringer was a mangle
Always told to be carefull not to put your hands in the mangle!

 Twin tubs will be the next topic, My mum thought she was the bees knees going from a Mangle to a Servis Twin Tub to an Automatic Hotpoint Machine

Back to Topic Does anyone still say the Bees Knees? And Mangle?

[mike A]

Mmmmmmmm....... we went the other way, from a Copper and Wringer to beating our clothes with a stick in the river, happy days
 

[Jacqui Harvey]

I bought a Mangle (made in Fraserburgh 1890) from our local Auction about 15 years ago for £14.00 and talked a couple of guys with a van into delivering it for me.  The Mangle cost £14.00 and I painted it and put it outside my shop.  I cannot tell you how many people wanted to buy it to put in their gardens as an ornament.  One woman offered me £60.00 for it...delivered.. I declined, after seeing how the two guys who delivered it had such a hard time lifting it I decided it was staying put. It did until I closed my shop when 4 guys moved it away.
Since then I have seen a Mangle at an Auction making £250.00.  

[Colwyn]

Yesterday I went to a knife sharpener. Not many of those about. I think the last one I saw was on a tricycle in Istanbul going round the restaurants and doing all the chefs' knives from the kitchen whilst parked up outside. My chap in Bristol took a bit of finding tucked away in a unit on a trading estate. He had an odd pricing system. He charged £2 per knife unless you had ten or more in which case it would be £1 per knife. So 9 knives would cost £18 but add another one and it would only be £10. Worth borrowing some from your neighbours to bring the price down.

[usedbustickets]

Ah yes but how many of you used these for the washing http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wooden-Laundry-Tongs-washing-machine/dp/B001UXVJEM taking the washing from the hot water in the washing machine (or even copper) to the mangle, or for those of you enjoying the luxury of a twin tub, from the washing machine into the spin dryer ...wow what technology, and even more amazing is that the washing tongs are still available today!!

My mum never had a twin tub, but the single upright washing machine she had was fitted with a luxurious powered mangle.  I can still hear it clunk now as it was switched on ready to take the wet washing, and mum would let me catch the washing on the other side of the mangle and put it into the basket ready for hanging out.  Washing was only done on a Monday, and i can still see in my minds eye the kitchen full of steam throughout Monday morning:D:D

[usedbustickets]

Oh and BTW! this topic has taken some right old twist and turns in its content, now what was the subject about originally.......