Dressed in Victorian attire, the children from Transition stepped back in time to experience a traditional Victorian Washday.
Busy hands scrubbed on the washboard at the dolly tub, circulated water through the clothes with the copper posser and ‘whites’ made to look like snow with a drop of ‘dolly blue’. Everyone agreed that washdays were a strenuous job, as the mangle wheel slowly turned and the clothes were finally aired.
Artefacts used in homes long ago were compared with modern equivalents and sketched carefully. Evidence from old sepia photographs was investigated and a selection of costumes from ‘patens’ (over-shoes) to Sunday best, tried on enthusiastically! Singing ‘Dashing away with the smoothing iron’ banished any sign of those ‘Washday blues!’
