Date:1930 - 1940 (c.)
Description:Polly Featherstone lived at Polly's Cottage, Mill Dale. She smoked a clay pipe which she kept in the oven of her fire grate. She is seen here washing her laundry using a dolly peg and tub. Polly's Cottage is now a take-away cafe.
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The laundry maid or house wife would use a wooden dolly peg in a dolly tub, twisting it and raising ...
Three generations of the Knowles family washing laundry. Mrs Knowles is using a dolly peg and tub, ...
Polly Featherstone lived at Polly's Cottage, Mill Dale. She smoked a clay pipe which she kept in the ...
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Image courtesy of: Alstonefield Local History Society
Donor ref:Polly Featherstone at Polly's Cottage (173/22372)
Source: Alstonefield Local History Society
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