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Late 19th and early 20th Century to a modern housing estate at that time was a wash-house, where the women washed the clothes of the family. Here was the great-fired boiler wash, often a shortage for wringing the laundry and often permanently brick basins in which soaked the clothes in soda lye or was rubbed clean with soap and washboard. All this, of course, also left his mark and so it is no wonder that had to be called in laundry rooms for cleanliness. Such a plate I used as a template for writing this …