 So your clothes were boiled and you had a dolly, and the mangle
- and the ironing - was it an electric iron you had? Yes, we did have an electric iron - yes. But it was as I say - it
was stressful every week. I stayed there for six months and then a friend of
mine got me a job with a family who lived - were going to move to Wimbledon -
but at that time they were living in Petworth in Sussex - and the contrast -
with the families - the ones in Horncastle and the family I came to were so
stark - it's almost impossible - they were very generous and nice people, and
the children I was in charge of was a baby - he was six months old and Peter
was three.
And how did they cope with the washing day?
Now, when we lived in Petworth, they lived in a cottage -
and they had a modern washing machine and they had a spin dryer.
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