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Thread Number: 80061
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
Liverpool Wash House 1959 |
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Post# 1039907 7/29/2019 at 20:07 (1,726 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Post# 1039908 , Reply# 1 7/29/2019 at 20:30 (1,726 days old) by thomasortega (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porciúncula) |
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Not for me, thanks... | ||
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Post# 1039912 , Reply# 2 7/29/2019 at 21:28 (1,726 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 1039925 , Reply# 3 7/29/2019 at 22:50 (1,726 days old) by Washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i) |
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Post# 1039926 , Reply# 4 7/29/2019 at 22:53 (1,726 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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No thank you Luv! | ||
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Post# 1039928 , Reply# 5 7/30/2019 at 00:04 (1,726 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Post# 1039930 , Reply# 6 7/30/2019 at 00:43 (1,726 days old) by Mrsalvo (New Braunfels Texas) |
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I wonder what soaps / detergents they used back then? Dolly tubs? I had never heard of them referred to that name. Thanks for posting Laundress. Barry | ||
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Post# 1039932 , Reply# 7 7/30/2019 at 01:05 (1,726 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kittys Launderette
One has to know the climate of the UK, Liverpool, and the era of post WW2" to understand that Kitty Wilkinson`s vison was nothing short of a Public Health miracle.
To be able to boil wash and sanitize your clothes, bedding n towels while your house was probably over run with vermin, in around 2 hours from wash to fold dry would be literally a lifesaver never mind the benefit of a communal meeting place, chat and local catch-up !! And to think that era is only 2 years before I was born ha ha, and my nearest city (7 miles) so don't knock it !!
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Post# 1039933 , Reply# 8 7/30/2019 at 01:08 (1,726 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty`s Launderette
Fast Forward to current era and we have Kitty Wilkinsons Launderette and ethos brought back to life by community launderettes and local housing projects.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO chestermikeuk's LINK
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Post# 1039934 , Reply# 9 7/30/2019 at 01:13 (1,726 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson`s Launderette
The old wash house has gone, (local slang is The BagWash) the steam wafting above the Dolly Tubs and chain smoking men operating industrial washing machines and hydro extractors (call Whizzors) ,
the latest in Professional Laundry care is provided by Miele and don't they look majestic in their colour and stature !!
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Post# 1039936 , Reply# 10 7/30/2019 at 01:14 (1,726 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson`s Launderette
Kittys vison brought back to life !!
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Post# 1039937 , Reply# 11 7/30/2019 at 01:15 (1,726 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson Launderette
Brought to film supporting Womens Causes by local community films.
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Post# 1039938 , Reply# 12 7/30/2019 at 01:16 (1,726 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson`s Vision
Come along for a cuppa, catch-up and wash n dry !!
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Post# 1039939 , Reply# 13 7/30/2019 at 01:18 (1,726 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson Launderette
Even catch up on work....
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Post# 1039940 , Reply# 14 7/30/2019 at 01:19 (1,726 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson Launderette
And dry time !!
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Post# 1039941 , Reply# 15 7/30/2019 at 01:21 (1,726 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson Launderette
Now all we need is a space next door for a "Wesher Museum"...#Looking !!
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Post# 1039979 , Reply# 16 7/30/2019 at 08:49 (1,725 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Post# 1040034 , Reply# 17 7/30/2019 at 16:11 (1,725 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson`s Launderettes
Where was the first UK Launderette you visited Paul, I bet the place was full of pastel coloured machines or even Frigidaires ??
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Post# 1040039 , Reply# 18 7/30/2019 at 16:36 (1,725 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Mike, it was most likely in Mansfield or Nottingham (where most of the rellies lived...and still live!). I remember they had front-load washers with a chute to add detergents, softener, etc - when I now use my '58 Bendix Duomatic I am reminded of them! I do remember seeing Frigidaire machines, but I can't remember where... possibly somewhere on the coast.
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Post# 1040041 , Reply# 19 7/30/2019 at 16:51 (1,725 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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I was born in 1959. In contrast to the Liverpool wash house, my parents had a 1956 (or thereabouts) Kenmore wringer washer and took clothes to the laundromat to dry them during the winter, when hanging outdoors wasn't an option. She also had a couple of those multi-tiered air drying racks in the house. And this was in the era of cloth diapers! No boiling for sanitation as in the wash house, but she used liquid chlorine bleach a lot.
Early in 1960, my dad bought the Kenmore Model 80 pair I grew up with. My mom, who used a public by-hand wash house in Italy before coming to the States after the war, was not convinced the automatic would clean as well as her wringer, so she'd wash in the wringer, then transfer the clothes to the automatic and select the Rinse & Spin cycle. No wonder the black lettering on that cycle button was the first to wear off. She had the automatic a good nine months before trusting it with the whole job. Thanks for embedding the fascinating film, Launderess! | ||
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Post# 1040058 , Reply# 20 7/30/2019 at 19:00 (1,725 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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To be fair
One does own a posser in form of C.T. Childs "Rapidwasher"
www.readymaderesources.co... www.lehmans.com/product/rapid-la... And am here to tell you the thing is amazingly effective. Don't quite go at it like women in film (though if one is ticked off about something it is a very effective way to work out anger while getting washing done....) , but the thing works though a tub of washing faster than anything else one knows. Often if have a load of linens that don't want to wait ages to do in the Miele or AEG (too many for one load, or a small load that would cause out of balance issues), will just bung the lot into wash tub and get out the posser. Five minutes washing, several rinses later the lot is bunged into spin dryer. Can get though six sheets and twelve pillow slips in under 45 minutes. That is everything washed, rinsed and on the clothes horse. Back on topic; would love to see the goings on when say one wife noticed her husband's/bf's shirt, hanky or other article of clothing in some other woman's wash. Phrase "it all comes out in the wash" derives from secrets told by dirty laundry. That and when things that ought not to be in someone's bundle, well are. *LOL* I mean if you're a widow or single woman and a man's drawers or other article of clothing is in your wash..... This or some housewife is sorting out her washing in public and her man's shirt has a lipstick mark that all the others recognize isn't her shade. Another well known phrase comes out of all this; airing one's dirty linen in public. | ||
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Post# 1040059 , Reply# 21 7/30/2019 at 19:03 (1,725 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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@ChestermikeUK | ||
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Post# 1040060 , Reply# 22 7/30/2019 at 19:04 (1,725 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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And now the other famous Kitty from "North" UK | ||
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Post# 1040171 , Reply# 23 7/31/2019 at 14:32 (1,724 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson`s Launderettes | ||
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Post# 1040181 , Reply# 24 7/31/2019 at 15:58 (1,724 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kitty Wilkinson`s Launderettes
Hi Eugene, have heard that story so many times of mums not trusting the "Automatic" over the wringer or handwash and when they find out just how easy it is later on,
Thankfully we have all that experience, and still the magical washers from our childhoods that we can keep going and using and loving them | ||
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Post# 1040182 , Reply# 25 7/31/2019 at 16:05 (1,724 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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Kittys Launderette
Good afternoon Launderess, yes one could imagine the reactions when said "Unmentionables" get caught up in ya folded items of laundry ha ha…
The Miele laundry appliances are the new products from the Miele Professional range like the Little Giants and are often seen in Launderamats throughout the UK and Europe. In this instance they are not coin operated and you simply pay your tab at the till when finished, its a lovely homey operation !! These are electrically heated usually couple of heaters wired in to boost quick heating times !! (See Link) CLICK HERE TO GO TO chestermikeuk's LINK
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