Rita
Andrew I remember about the washing. We had about 10 folk between the two closes to this wash-house. It was about a foot from the back door and had a big boiler in it and two big tubs. You got a certain day to go. Mother would get away down and steep the washing and put on the boiler and get the hot water. Then she would do her washing -put into the boiler and boil it and then she would go away up the stair and by the time they were boiled, or she thought they were ready for rinse and hanging out, she came down and she did that. After it was all finished she had to leave the wash-house the way she got it, clean. Before that, if any of us wanted to get our feet washed or anything like that, she put on the boiler again and we got ourselves in the wash house.
