Historical information

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."

Significance

This item belonged to the Alexander family who owned a farming property in Emerald from the 1920s but who lived in Belgrave.

Physical description

Washing dolly - a wooden laundry implement which was probably used to lift hot washing from the copper into a cold rinsing tub.

Inscriptions & markings

None discernible