Washing Tub Stand - Revision history

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 {{Thing
 |Type of thing=Domestic
-|Date made or found=early 1900s
+|Date made or found=1900
-|Date approximate=No
+|Date approximate=Yes
 |Place used=Mallala
 |Place found=Mallala
 |Current location=Mallala Museum
-|Ceased use=1940s
+|Ceased use=1940
-|Date approximate2=No
+|Date approximate2=Yes
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 In the early days of settlement washing was not the easy process it is today as there were no washing machines.

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 On washing day the wood copper was lit and kept burning as long as required to provide hot water for the washing tubs, one on each side of the stand.
-The scrubbing board was in one tub and the clothes would be rubbed with a bar of soap and then the dirt loosened by rubbing on the corrugated board.  Clothes would be wrung out by hand, placed in the second tub and rinsed in the clean water.
+The scrubbing board was in one tub and the clothes would be rubbed with a bar of soap and then the dirt loosened by rubbing on the corrugated glass board.  Clothes would be wrung out by hand, placed in the second tub and rinsed in the clean water.
 When the hand wringer was invented it was placed on the partition between the tubs and the clothes fed through the wringer to remove most of the water.

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 The scrubbing board was in one tub and the clothes would be rubbed with a bar of soap and then the dirt loosened by rubbing on the corrugated board.  Clothes would be wrung out by hand, placed in the second tub and rinsed in the clean water.
- When the hand wringer was invented it was placed on the partition between the tubs and the clothes fed through the wringer to remove most of the water.
+When the hand wringer was invented it was placed on the partition between the tubs and the clothes fed through the wringer to remove most of the water.
 It was necessary to be careful feeding the clothes through the wringer or the fingers could be caught and squashed.

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 |Sources=Excerpt from a letter written by Miss Myrtle Hayman of Lewiston and quoted in  "Two Wells Then and Now"  second edition by Betty Williams.
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+|FlickrID=7674496938,7602710430,
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 {{Memory|Mrs Martin of Chivell Street, Mallala supplemented her income by washing clothes for other people in the early 1900s. The Washing Tub Stand on display at the Mallala Museum was owned by Mrs. Martin.}}
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 |Date approximate2=No
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-'''Bold text'''In the early days of settlement washing was not the easy process it is today as there were no washing machines.
+In the early days of settlement washing was not the easy process it is today as there were no washing machines.
 On washing day the wood copper was lit and kept burning as long as required to provide hot water for the washing tubs, one on each side of the stand.
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 When the early hand operated washing machines were invented the clothes would go from the washing machine through the wringer and into the tub to be rinsed.
 {{Info
 |Sources=Excerpt from a letter written by Miss Myrtle Hayman of Lewiston and quoted in  "Two Wells Then and Now"  second edition by Betty Williams.

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 Mrs Martin of Chivell Street Mallala supplemented her income by washing clothes for other people in the early 1900s. The Washing tub stand on display at the Mallala Museum was owned by Mrs. Martin.
 {{Info
-|Sources=Excerp from "Two Wells Then and Now"  second edition by Betty Williams.
+|Sources=Excerp from a letter written by Miss Myrtle Hayman of Lewiston and quoted in  "Two Wells Then and Now"  second edition by Betty Williams.
 }}
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