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The Washerwomen

Weald and Downland Museum - Singleton - Museum of Welsh Life (2001)

Two washers beating the linen laundry with battledores.

Typically only the underclothes were washed and not normally with soaps; which were normally used only to remove grease or stains.

Photographer: Johnnie Rutter

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