[Margaret Pilkington]

I wonder if my laundry habits can be laid at the door of my paternal Grandmother.....Ok, they didn't have the modern detergents.....she grated olive soap, boiled her sheets in a Slaxone copper boiler.........and used bleach. I loved the smell of the boiling sheets and pillow cases.........and used to help her put the sheets through the mangle.
She would lift the laundry out of the boiler with wooden tongs into a dolly tub of cold water .....swish the sheets around using a posser........then we would fold the sheets and put them through the mangle( a couple of times)....isn't it a good job the floor in the kitchen was stone flags....oh yes, and she wore clogs too.
That's my laundry story.