Re: washing mangle

My granny had a mangle it was kept in the back garden by the kitchen door she also had a big drum type thing and a posser for churning the laundry. I remember her whites seemed super white to me. She used something called Dolly Blue to whiten them.

Gosh the things you remember

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did laugh when i saw this thread -when i was very young 'we had a big mangle in the garden 'turning the big wheel was great fun 'my bro said put ur hand on the roller i want turn it hard -he did OMG screams street heard me - he got a whack and then the mangle vanished -dont remember where 'but big ugly machine but did the trick of drying clothes i know now .

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I married in 1969 I was doing the washing in the sink by hand until a friend sold me her box type washing machine , the heater had broken so I filled it with hot water from a pan , it had an electric wringer on it , I would pull the mangled clothes out of the machine , push them through the wringer into the sink , rinse them by hand then through the mangle again . It was 5 years before I had another machine

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I remember we had a mangle when I was very young. It was kept outside the kitchen door and I used to love turning the handle when it was washing day

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I think my mum spent most of Monday doing the washing.
Then she got a twin tub and a whole new world opened up

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I remember the mangle in the back yard

When I was really young my nan used to fill the pram with the washing and take it to the public laundry where there were rows of deep sinks and scrubbing boards and electric mangles and big presses

Then mum bought a twin tub. She would start the washing with the whites and work her way down to the socks, then the water was used to wash the floors and door step

I remember the bags of blue as well. They were kept at the side of the till in liptons and if you touched then your fingers were dyed indigo blue

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I wish I had kept my Mums old mangle they make good money as trendy garden oranaments !

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Yes we had a Mangle and Poss Tub.

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Before we had a washing machine we had a 'boiler' for heating up a large amount of water which was then used either for washing by hand or filling up the tin bath for a weekly scrub .... after the washing was done, it was indeed mangled, which I loved doing and sometimes got my fingers pinched ...

We only had an outside toilet as well ... those were the days. Not.

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My maternal grandmother had a mangle, which a sort of ornament, if I remember rightly. My mother had a washing machine from the start of her marriage in 1947, I believe.