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Ritemp Washing MachineA housewife prepares to drain her English Electric Ritemp washing machine, simply and rapidly, into bucket or drain, according to the instruction book
Drying Clothes / AllinghamA woman in a pink bonnet check her washing line to see if her washing is dry
Girls Washing & IroningGirls washing and ironing
Rochester Castle, KentSchoolboys at play with hoops, marbles and leapfrog, not far from the castle at Rochester, Kent Date: circa 1830
Dolls clothes on a washing line
Woman washing by David WrightBeautiful portrait of a woman, possibly the artists wife, Esme, sitting in a small metal bath. Date: c.1948
Advert for Ewarts Califront hot water 1928" Just turn the tap" Ewarts Califront hot water instantly night or day. Hot water supply to bath, lavatory, basin ect. 1928
Man riding out of town on a Bank HolidayA man rides his skinny white horse out of a smoky town on a Bank Holiday
Pembrokeshire fisherman and familyA Pembrokeshire fisherman and his family outside their cottage. The woman on the left is washing clothes in a wooden bucket
Good Boy by Muriel DawsonA little boy in a charming blue smock and shorts outfit, washes his face using a flannel, soap and metal wash bowl
Lingerie modesty screen / W H RobinsonFor those who don t wish to air their lingerie in public - the modesty screen can be placed to enclose such offending items from view when on the washing line
Ironing Day, by Ethel Parkinson. A little Dutch girl tries to iron a sheet, but a little boy has his arm round her and is trying to kiss her
Woman in the Tub 1918A young woman starts her day washing herself in the tub with a large sponge. A towel sits on a rail for when she has finished
Elephant Washing AldinAn elephant washing itself with water from a bucket
Ottoman Empire Views (2 / 5)Cabinet de Toilet in an Arab Bath house
A Man and his Tub C1880A man and his tub
Sugar Beet WeighedIn the washing room, 28lbs of beet is weighed before and after washing and the average dirt content is calculated for the complete load
Advert / Cooks SoapCooks Pure Toilet Soap
Washing drying in the sunLines of washing drying in the sun with the outlines of roofs and chimney pots behind, in an unidentified location in either Islington or Camden, in London
Byron / Newstead / BedroomNEWSTEAD ABBEY Bedroom of Byron, aristocrat and Romantic poet, at his Nottinghamshire home
De Beers Diamond MineWashing equipment for the diamonds of De Beers mines in South Africa
Jane Lewson (116)JANE LEWSON a London widow as renowned for her eccentricities as her age, such as a belief that washing in water is unhealthy : she used pigs lard instead
Lady in Bath, Maid AddsA lady is in her bath when her maid adds some of Lewandowskis shampoo and bath extract
Early DishwasherAn early machine for washing dishes
Lady in Hip Bath 1905A German lady washes in a hip bath
Bathing Child 1852A mother bathes her two children: the elder, a toddler, sits drying on a table, while baby stands in the bath tub
Children Wash ClothesTwo little girls help their mother with the laundry on washday
Bathing BabyTwo nurses bath a baby
Two boys larking about in the bath
Delhi - the banks of the River Yamuna Date: circa 1920
Miner washing at a tin bath, South WalesA South Wales miner washes at a tin bath in front of the fire, while his wife sits mending socks
A slavey or servant maid, East End of LondonA slavey or domestic servant maid washing a doorstep in the East End of London
Shipping Beef on Board HMS Alexandra, 1878Engraving showing the crew of HMS Alexandra taking beef aboard ship from a small supply boat, off Tuzla, in the Sea of Marmora. The supply ship has also brought fish, barrels and the washing
Young girl cleaning and tidying. Source unknown
Washing clothes in the Nile, SudanWashing Day on the banks of the Nile, Omdurman, Sudan Date: circa 1910s
British soldiers bathing, Basra, Mesopotamia (Iraq), WW1British soldiers enjoying some nude bathing in a river at Busra, Mesopotamia (now Basra, Iraq) during the First World War. Date: circa 1916
Hair washing with Cuticura soap, 1890sAn advertisement for Cuticura soap, used here as a shampoo: for a clean, healthy scalp and luxuriant hair, where all else fails. Date: 1890s
Bendix washing machine advertisement, c. 1955Advertisement for the Bendix automatic home washer, which, claims the woman in the advert, really does do everything. I find that hard to believe. c.1955
Gypsy Camp near Latimer road, LondonSketches of gypsy life: an encampment near Latimer road, Notting Hill. Mr. George Smith, social reformer of Coalville, Leicester, can been seen conversing with a gypsy family in the fore ground. 1879
Street Children - Naples, Italy. The Scunizzi street urchins, running wild amid the bombed buildings of Naples. The priest Father Mario Borrelli achieved international renown with his campaigns to
Two boys playing in old washing machineTwo young lads fooling about with (and inside!) an old washing machine. Perhaps they were harbouring dreams of a career in plumbing at this stage?!
Women chatting in a back yard, Pontypool, South WalesA group of women, probably all wives of coal miners, chatting in the back yard of 76 Hanbury Terrace, Pontypool, South Wales. The smiling woman in the spotted skirt is the mother of W E Jones
Woman using a dolly tub in a back yard, South WalesA woman using a dolly tub to do the weekly wash, in a back yard in South Wales, with two children on the left. W E Jones recalled
Native Americans of California, 1851Engraving showing some of the native Americans of California, 1851. Two native american women, one washing clothes in the stream
Mangling MachineEngraving of a woman using a mangle to squeeze excess water out of washed clothes
Clothes Lines - LondonDrying sheets and general washing in the back yards of a row of terraced houses in London
Bathing / Bloodletting 16CPeople in a public bath house, bathing and blood letting
The Torpedo Washer / 1888THE TORPEDO WASHER - clothes cleaned by compressed air, in half the time of any other washer
