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In a previous posting there is a photo of The Gough Arms. Can you tell me where its name derives from? If I have asked this before I apologise my memory plays tricks. But I could tell you what happened years ago.

I have been talking to many over the years, how so many babies were lost during washing day. And not just washing day. So sad. Women worked so hard well everyone did but there were no concessions for them then

I would uptick everybody I have been locked ewt!

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The Alexandra Cov (the Flea Pit) showed foreign films & mucky ones , gran said, & some were foreign & mucky! But she stayed till the end, cos she' d paid, she said.

In what way diffent?

I had to say the "when theTatler was the best seller," In a weird school play called Here We Go Round The Prickly Pear, I was the dad I always hot old gittish parts, but I got a part, So .. we asked teach what the Tatler was, .

Wasnt the Tatler a newspaper.

I was told the jug & basin on a stand was called a dry sink.

I think you had to wipe it first. I remember the stiff clothes they would stand up on their own. It took me years to realise what a clowzorse actually meant! And the bungole where it was kept.

Our hinges were fabric which wore and it all went very wobbly with the weight of the washing & the dog knocked it over with his tail . He also ate the ironing board he was not popular.

Me too. Ours was small I made dens with it Nan's was double the size. Dad came home with an upight concertina one, that used to come down on you & my fingers. But we had a garden. Nan had a pulley line in the kitchen and over her bath. I forgot about those. I am yet to see one like gran's little...

A sad note but it sticks in my mind that she lost several babies whilst doing the washing as did my great gran. Off topic I suppose but sort of linked.

My mate's gran gave me an imagibary washboard demo. She stood behind it with a big block of soap and scrubbed up & down the bottom of it in the poss tub. For sone reason I didn't think you stood up. The granny had a small one on her sink in the 70s still.

Its like the one I couldn't turn. Small Mangle on the right too at the front. Where did they hang the washing, across their street,? In Lenny Henry's Three Little Birds it was hung across the windows. Would they have had the Italian type airers on pulleys?

It's like the one I couldn't turn.

Twiddle the thing that adjusted the height of the rollers. Dry it all off.

I thought it was cool to help nan mangling till I tried . Bent over, onee foot on the base to stop it slipping, enough pressure turn the handle , one hand to catch the clothes. I couldn't even turn the handle of the one in the kitchen!

I had a double page spread in a French paper a modern article commemorating D Day about the allied troups & what French people felt then. I gave it, with a translation to an e x serviceman for his association. And a A5, four page French newspaper 1940 I think to a French history group in...

Ex Servicemens' organisations would be interested & history groups. We gave ours to one.