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Where did the wringer live, inside or outside!!

Hi Bob yes it was a mangle, I believe it was the rollers that were different they were made out of wood, unusual considering he was a blacksmith, also I think in America it was called a ringer.

Hi, In 1802 a blacksmith from Accrington had an idea!!. He made his idea and his wife used it in the family home ( they had 6 kids) it became quite popular and other neighbours would cue outside to use it. Can any body give him a name!! And what was it!! :)

Hi, can anybody tell me the price of coal or nutty slack, in the nineteen twenty s. I know it was a long time ago, so if a mans wage was £2 week and he had to feed and cloth a family of 6 presumably coal was cheap, but how cheap, can any body please help!!! Jethro

Hi Dotti can you remember bath nights !!! Who went in first adults or children and did they use the cloths horse as a privacy screen. I've head the saying ( don't throw the baby out in the bath water) but that would imply children went last.

Thank you for sharing that lovely story with us, didn't no about the toffee.

Hi Dotti, very interesting, can you think back to when your mother was cooking on the ( black lead fireside range) did she cook vegetables in a pan on the open fire or did she put the pan on the hot plate, the shelf above the oven !!!. Also Dotti apart from baking bread and cooking poultry in...

Can any body tell me what soap they would have used in the tin bath, and also would they use it as a block or would they have grated it with a cheese like grater !!!!!!. And when they were washing clothes in the dolly tub, what did they use no washing powder in those days. And finally what was...

It was the coal and Iron Age of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britton, there would have been soot in the air pretty much all the time.

That's interesting did you ever taste any food cooked on the range. And if so what was it like!!!.

I'm giving a talk to primary school kids in March key stage 1&2 aged 6 to 9 about life as a child in the Victorian times and how life centred around the ( black lead fireside range) I do have an exact replica of the range made out of wood compleat with oven firebox and water boiler it looks just...

Thanks Margaret that's exactly what I was hoping for, have you ever heard of Hardin it was a Victorian cloth I think and used as a oven cloth. None of my customers have heard of it.

Hi Susie, many thanks yes I have seen the short film on YouTube, the Victorian farm link is interesting. As a chimney sweep I still get to sweep these every now and then, one of my customers who is 89 years old and she said they used to sprinkle salt in the bottom of the oven and when it started...

Hi this is my first post, Does any body remember the old (black lead fireside range) the one with an oven, water boiler and open fire, they wear still in use up to about the 1950s. I no George Bodley invented the range in 1802 and revolutionised the Victorian kitchen. 1. How did they no when...