The Laundry at West Hill, 1824

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Date:1824

Description:After clothes had been washed in the wash house, they came to the Laundry, where the large fire and ‘Ironing Stove’ were used to dry and iron clothes. A sixteen foot ironing board was kept in the laundry, alongside a ‘Dressing Horse’ and a number of clothes horses. The laundry housed twenty four ‘flat irons’ in addition to ‘6 Italian Irons & heaters’, indicating the high volume of laundry that came through the wash house from the Mansion House. A ‘Capital’ mangle also lived in the laundry, with an ‘Ironing Table’ and a number of ironing stools.

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