Post by BernadettePost by Mary FisherI don't care what Wiki says, it was known as both in my youth - when we
used them. I've lived all my life in England. If there was a difference it
was that the mangle was a large, solid cast iron frame holding two huge
wooden rollers with gearing and a device to increase or decrease the
pressure. It was used over a dolly tub. The wringer was a smaller machine
with rubber rollers and without the majestic gears and enormous handle.
We still have a very small wringer, intended for use on a draining board
and not very efficient. I used it when manking beeswax foundation but
that's another story.
Mary
Wiki isn't always correct Mary but you can always go in and amend an entry
if you wish.
I know, then someone else can re-edit it. Life's too short :-)
Post by BernadetteWe also used both words in my family and Mom had one on the end of the old
crock sink. I loved that sink because, when the weather was very cold
in winter, she would bath us children in it as the scullery and kitchen
were the only warm rooms in the house. The old black kitchen range was
the other side of the scullery wall so (apart from draughts) it was always
snug. :-)
My Grandma had an ancient (even older than her!) battered shallow brown
earthenware sink. I loved it and wished we had one instead of the deep white
pot sink. I couldn't understand why my mother didn't agree ...
The huge mangle was also at my Grandma's. And the copper boiler and the
bread oven - not room for much more than a table and hard horse-hair sofa in
that 'cellar kitchen'. Their bedroom was above that (at street level) and
then the attic - they brought up four children there and kept a pig in the
tiny garden during the war. No bath, no hot water, lavatory outside under
the stone steps to the 'front door' - which led into the bedroom. A tiny
fire and a couple of gas lamps. They died in the 1950s, having lived in that
house all their married life - about sixty years.
God, why do some people complain now!
Mary