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Aye Up,
I wonder how many will know what a 'Dolly' peg is?
Were they a national or just a local/regional item?
I wonder how many will know what a 'Dolly' peg is?
Were they a national or just a local/regional item?
Alreet,
I'm not sure never really thought about it, i just thought it was that style of clothing peg that was called "dolly peg" as you'd see people draw faces on them.
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I'm not sure never really thought about it, i just thought it was that style of clothing peg that was called "dolly peg" as you'd see people draw faces on them.
Check theses out
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/groverdee/woodcarving-clothespins/?lp=true
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I remember my Gran doing her Monday laundry , part of which was a pot-bellied and corrugated, galvanised barrel . As I recall, those many years past, clothes and ( hopefully)hot water were put in the barrel along with soap flakes and a chunk of Sunlight soap and the whole lot was agitated with a device called the Dolly Peg...it looked like a small legged stool with a 3 foot handle and a crossbar on the handle top. I may be in error with this, cos there was another long-handled device, a "Posher" , a hemisphere of spun and plated copper, with many holes that would admit the soapy water, making a weighty headed cudgel for pounding the clothing...to the ruination of many shirt and trouser buttons.
All the dhobying was eventually hung out on a long line and clipped in place with wooden pegs of split wood, bound with a length of stripped tin-can.
On the other hand, according to my North Country Missis, a Dolly Peg was just a 3 foot lump of wood, without any embellishment at all, but twas used in a similar barrel, for the same purpose.
Well, that was a trip down memory lane!
Ceeg
All the dhobying was eventually hung out on a long line and clipped in place with wooden pegs of split wood, bound with a length of stripped tin-can.
On the other hand, according to my North Country Missis, a Dolly Peg was just a 3 foot lump of wood, without any embellishment at all, but twas used in a similar barrel, for the same purpose.
Well, that was a trip down memory lane!
Ceeg
I thought a dolly was as Hammock man says, a device used when cleaning clothes rather than a clothes peg.
Aye Up,
Done a bit of research after noting replies -
Seagull/Hammockman - I think that this is the tub and the 'posher' or dolly that you mention.
It appears that the term 'Dolly' was applied to any of the items - tub/posher/pegs etc
More info around this site http://www.oldandinteresting.com/washing-dollies.aspx
Just thinking ahead for the wife's Christmas presents.
Done a bit of research after noting replies -
Seagull/Hammockman - I think that this is the tub and the 'posher' or dolly that you mention.
It appears that the term 'Dolly' was applied to any of the items - tub/posher/pegs etc
More info around this site http://www.oldandinteresting.com/washing-dollies.aspx
Just thinking ahead for the wife's Christmas presents.
In Yorkshire a wife IS a washing machine!
Oh 'eck, I bet that's thrown't cat among't pigeons!
Aye Up,
Done a bit of research after noting replies -
Seagull/Hammockman - I think that this is the tub and the 'posher' or dolly that you mention.
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It appears that the term 'Dolly' was applied to any of the items - tub/posher/pegs etc
More info around this site http://www.oldandinteresting.com/washing-dollies.aspx
Just thinking ahead for the wife's Christmas presents.
These are what we call Dolly's around here. But we also call the wooden peg's Dolly peg's too.
A dolly peg is a wooden clothes peg with a split up the middle running around 3/4 the way up.
The other device is called a "Posser" and was used for "Possing" an action similar to Plunging but with a rotating movement as you agetate up and down.
The other device is called a "Posser" and was used for "Possing" an action similar to Plunging but with a rotating movement as you agetate up and down.
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