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Washing Clothes

Joan Jalland interviewed by Romano Cavaroli
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Click here to listenWhat was the next development after that?

Well, the next development was - long after that, after we came to live in Basildon-I was still managing with a boiler and mangle - and my mother came to visit, from Switzerland and she was horrified to think I was doing my washing by hand and she very kindly supplied me with the money to buy a washing machine and a spin dryer, for which I was very grateful.

Click here to listenWe went to Switzerland the year after the war - 1946, and that's when we saw for the first time - that people - they didn't use washing lines they had the - rotary dryers, and they were in gardens and even in public places - where people in the town that didn't have a garden - could use.

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