Wash them clothes....how?

[NorthernRaider]

Sunna at the Beamish living museum they still have many Victorian and Edwardian houses, shops, etc fully operational and when we last visited one of the cottages had a large copper caldren ( for want of a better discription) set into a brick frame with a coal fire underneath. In this they boiled the clothes in hot water before transfering it to a large corrugated wooden tub and agitating the laundry with a poss stick. Cloths need a good agitate in hot water apparently.

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BTW Group if you have ever wondered what the post oil post electric world is likely to be like I strongly reccomend you visit the beamish open air mueum in Co Durham,