Hartlepool History Then & Now

Washing day - 1888

What we know about this image :

Hannah Blenkinsop, born about 1869, and Miss Wilson doing the laundry the old fashioned way with a posset and scrubbing board.

Date (of image) : 1888

Donor : Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham

Creator : James Whitehead Pattison

Part of the "Pattison's Photographs" collection

Location

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