OT Washing Machines

You were lucky. When we got 'ome from us school our mam would make us wring washin' out by 'and.

Non sequitir. Usual lack of intelleigenve from the resident moron.

My grandfather had and outside loo AND an inside one.

That fact alone shows how much you really know about how some people dont have to live in this country, which is supposedly the 5th richest the world.

I couldnt afford a mortgage till 1993

Right.

So all the dribblers in the family chose to use the outside loo, while all the intelligent ones used the inside loo.

So which branch of of the family do you hail from ?

michael adams

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But if you remember it was you not me who claimed one aspect of never having had it so good - was "not having to go outside for a s*it"

You were the first person to mention "not having to go outside for a s*it" not me.

Now you seem to be completely changing your tune in claiming "not having to go outside for a s*it" isnt now a real benefit at all, and in fact people are queuing up to do it,

So which is it?

michael adams

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Yeah and a lever on the side to smack if you got your t*ts caught.

But is that an outside toilet as their only toilet, or an outside toilet which hasn't been gentrified into a wine cave?

Owain

DHW from a pot-bellied cast iron coal stove in the kitchen, and an open flue geyser over the bath. The stove had to go with the clean air act, replaced by a Rayburn coke stove in the living room, galvanised riveted hot water tank (uninsulated), and an immersion heater!

We had a proper enamelled bath, with gas geyser over, in the home counties. But going back to mother's family in Swansea for summer holidays in the 1950's, they still had the tin bath. Not in the garden, though, in the everyday living room in front of a coal fire / range. There was a front parlour for Sundays, funerals, and posh visitors of course.

I remember that kind, but asingle tub Hoover as I remember it.

Like this one?

Owain

I reemebr my mum using a dual tub version , where yuo took the washing out of teh water section then into the spin dryer.

In message , whisky-dave writes

Twin Tub. Yes, I had one when I bought my first house in 75. Great fun having to remove the wet stuff from one tub, and dump in the spin tub. I had a pair of wooden tongs for that job.

Ah yes! It was around that time that we took over an AEG twin-tub that a relative had finished with. Built like a battleship. IIRC it had a facility to rinse by running water into the spinner.

Chris

Yes I remmebr that and my mum doing it I found it fasinating for some reaso n the steam the smell, the noises I stood there watching while my mum tried to get me to go and do something else, she was always worried about the cl othes falling back and making a big splash of hot water. I kepp takiong the rubber spiders web that went in the spinner took it out into the garden to use it as a frizbee sort of thing.

I had one in a rented property in the 1980s.

If one can ignore the floor flooding and the windows steaming up, it was actually quite an efficient way of getting a lot of washing done.

Owain

One of my jobs was to sit on the spin-dryer to stop it waltzing round the kitchen, and pull the lid up to stop it when the washing-up bowl on the floor was getting full of water. (We had the economy model with a spout instead of a hose.)

Owain

Your mum? We used to have one (well, two).

When we married, we were living in a flat. It didn't come with a washing machine and it was a very low rent (actual, altruistic landlady, even gave us a nice wedding present).

One of our professors (well, two actually - the other being his wife) gave us a secondhand twin tub machine. It lasted about 8 years, and then was basically unrepairable. It was good because our kitchen was *tiny* - we kept it under the stairs and wheeled it out for wash days.

When it broke, I managed to find a brand new one - so we got that (there was *no* room for an automatic).

And we, too, had the wooden tongs for transferring washing to the spinner.