Showing 4 items matching "washing dolly"
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Emerald Museum & Nobelius Heritage ParkDomestic object - Washing dolly, Unknown maker, 1920s - 1940s
... Washing dolly...washing dolly...Fay Weldon describing a New Zealand wash-day c1940, in Auto da Fay - A Memoir , 2002, relates the following: "Sheets were left on the boil for half an hour or so, and then, wet and steamy, would be heaved into the first sink with the washing dolly - a tough wooden stick strong enough to provide sufficient leverage without snapping."...Washing dolly - a wooden laundry implement which was probably used to lift hot washing from the copper into a cold rinsing tub....Domestic object Washing dolly Unknown maker ...Fay Weldon describing a New Zealand wash-day c1940, in Auto da Fay - A Memoir , 2002, relates the following: "Sheets were left on the boil for half an hour or so, and then, wet and steamy, would be heaved into the first sink with the washing dolly - a tough wooden stick strong enough to provide sufficient leverage without snapping."This item belonged to the Alexander family who owned a farming property in Emerald from the 1920s but who lived in Belgrave.Washing dolly - a wooden laundry implement which was probably used to lift hot washing from the copper into a cold rinsing tub.None discerniblewashing dolly, laundry equipment, alexander -
Whitehorse Historical Society Inc.Domestic object - Wooden pegs
... Wooden pegs used for washing day Washing Pegs Laundry 33 wooden Dolly clothes pegs with a dome top Domestic object Wooden pegs ...Wooden pegs used for washing day 33 wooden Dolly clothes pegs with a dome topwashing, pegs, laundry -
Mont De LanceyBook, Pamela Sandbrook, Laundry Bygones, 2004
... Laundry aids Laundry equipment Laundry irons Laundry dollies Washboards Washing machines This book illustrates the simple, rare but often extremely beautiful traditional laundry aids as well as machines which were used before and in the first quarter of the twentieth century. ...This book illustrates the simple, rare but often extremely beautiful traditional laundry aids as well as machines which were used before and in the first quarter of the twentieth century.A small brown and blue covered book, Laundry Bygones, with the title in white lettering at the top of the front cover with the author Pamela Sambrook printed in blue underneath. The cover has a full sized photograph of the old fashioned laundry at Shugborough, Staffordshire Arts and Museum Service in England. The contents show the history of laundries from the past with information as well as black and white photographs. There is a List of Further Reading and Places to Visit at the back. Pp.32.non-fictionThis book illustrates the simple, rare but often extremely beautiful traditional laundry aids as well as machines which were used before and in the first quarter of the twentieth century. laundry aids, laundry equipment, laundry irons, laundry dollies, washboards, washing machines -
Emerald Museum & Nobelius Heritage ParkDomestic object - Wooden clothes pegs (5), unknown
... These wooden clothes pegs of unknown manufacture were used to hang wet washing on a clothesline. They were also known as 'dolly pegs' because they were used as toy dolls by children. ...These wooden clothes pegs of unknown manufacture were used to hang wet washing on a clothesline. They were also known as 'dolly pegs' because they were used as toy dolls by children. ...These wooden clothes pegs of unknown manufacture were used to hang wet washing on a clothesline. They were also known as 'dolly pegs' because they were used as toy dolls by children. This type of peg was in use in the first half of the 20th century and earlier but was then gradually replaced by wooden spring pegs and plastic spring pegs. These pegs are an example of a once common household item no longer in use.Five wooden clothes pegs - wooden dowels with two 'legs'.Star on top of each peg
