Starched knickers for Mrs Redstone

Mrs Redstone was the schoolmistress at Easterton. Holders of such posts are not always popular with the children and that seems to have been the case revealed here. But let’s first see where Lucreti...

Laundry Tongs

Most of us, these days, use an automatic washing machine. You load it, select the setting and switch on and go and do something else. Later, you come back and remove the washing which already has most...

An alternative to the flat iron

Before electricity, getting creases out of clothes was a job for the flat iron. These were heavy chunks of metal which were placed on a stove to heat up. When they reached what was deemed a suitable t...

Little Dorrit

Downstairs in our kitchen area at Market Lavington Museum we have a small stove whose function was to keep flat irons hot and ready for use. Modern day irons would have seemed like total miracles bac...