I would just like to say

Stanleysteamer said:

...and , for @kevstar the washing soap bar etc was known as "blue"

Bluing (fabric) - Wikipedia

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so our Kev was right although kinda old skool!!
Monday's dins was cold roast and chips. so not quite a cold dins, round my Grans! Her tub looked like and old one but had a vertically mounted swirly thing that swished back and forth electrically.
But I got to turn the handle of the mangle. She did it in what was called "the veranda" i.e. a glassed in area outside the back door, today it'd be called a conservatory!

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Def90man said:

I‘ve been in the one at Linwood many times but I’m still to see a ‘yummy mummy

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Stanleysteamer said:

Done a covid test ?
Our gardener's got it.
There is a lot of it about sadly.

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Stanleysteamer said:

I saw that on tinternet. What fun. AND you could kip in it. Reminds me of the Maxi.

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landowner said:

We had an ADA when I was a kid washer / wringer

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landowner said:

My mother always used OMO but grandma had a dolly

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kevstar said:

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derwendolly said:

No, that's wool, it would shrink.

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kevstar said:

Do Muslims not shrink

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derwendolly said:

The Dolly Blue was not the soap. It was a small cylinder of blue dye wrapped in a piece of muslim tied at the top with a piece of string and dropped into the rinsing water so that the white laundry looked brighter. The soap was a very crude soda- based concoction which was bought as an unwrapped ,roughly-sawn up bar. It was very hard and had to be grated into a seperate bowl of boiling hot water to melt it before it was put into the dolly tub with the dirty clothes

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Stanleysteamer said:

Persil was the very first, 1907 invented by the Germans. Tide was an early one, '46 and believe it or not Dreft came out very early on, '33, wasn't good for really dirty clothes! Omo came out in '63.

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kevstar said:

You've had one tied up with a bit o string

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kevstar said:

Noooooooo !!!!!! It was the rav 4 that was the rust bucket, the honda is ex ambulance service.

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kevstar said:

Where does the blue rinse hair come from did they stick there wig in the machine too.

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What Is a Blue Rinse? (with pictures)

A blue rinse is a hair dye that is used to make gray hair look brighter and less yellow. It can be tricky to use, since leaving it...

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Stanleysteamer said:

Didn't check back.
Should have!
Hopefully the ambulance service will have kept up with the maintenance as it may well have been used hard in earnest.

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kevstar said:

Where you getting this info mumsnet

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