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DescriptionJust pulled this beauty out of our laundry in Christchurch. You could see the round stain made by the copper on the concrete floor.
ContributorJillian Nuth
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LinkFacebookDate Created2017-09-30CommentsDebz Turner I have two of these - grow herbs in them. They are marvellous.
Brian Langton Yep we had them in Westport plus the old copper it must have been bloody hard work back then I can always remember my Grans face after she had finished bright red and she was knacked.
Heather Newby my Mums fingers were frozen after she hung out the washing in winter and the sheets would be solid on the line after a frost
Gail Callaghan We had one of these in Sydney
Michael Dense I still got one herb garden
Heather Newby same with me... do you have anything in the base for drainage?
Michael Dense Heather Newby no
Sandy Brears Good place to grow the mint now
Phyllis Aberhart Good for water for horses
Craig Grundy Would have had a wash board ribbing inside as well
Sheila Dixon Got one in the garden in Hari Hari. Free to a good home!!!
Bernice Jennison I keep my coal in them at the back door Very handy
Helen Brennan We had one boys put tadpoles in it in garden
Wendy Bruce There was 1 in our wash-house. I ‘bathed’ in 1 side every night except Sunday’s. When it was real bathtime
Catherine O'Neil I am still using one in my house in Nelson. It works well, so see no reason to change it. I do wash my delicates in a bucket, I must confess.
Anje Kremer had1 now used as a flower box at my gate
Jeannie Johnson Yes I would love one if any one has one please let me know
Craig Smith Our old washhouse when i was a kid had one of these and a copper beside it
Katarina Leaf-Dobbs We did as well when we lived in Haast :)
Jenny Marshall Craig Smith we had one in riccarton, 2 concrete tubes with wringer in the middle...had to be careful not to get your hand and or arm caught in it... and the copper beside it.
Sandy Hayes Incredible have not seen one like that in years
Denis Mellett excellent for growing herbs,mint and parsley
JeffJanet Curtin The one we had in the outside wash house in Addington was made of timber. We had to bathe in that after rugby. Had a coal fired copper beside it where dad cooked the crayfish
Cynthia McCaughan Probably Kauri. My first house had them too
Jennifer Nicol Growing raspberries in ours.
Lindsay Blincoe Yes, I grew up with a laundry like this plus a washing machine, one lifted the clothes from it into the tub, rinsed them then fed into a diabolical wringer into the other tub. Hard work!!!!
Doris Blanchard I remember having those and the wooden pole that we used to transfer the clothes from one to the other. Also remember having washboards, 1 wooden and 1 glass.
Mary Moffitt Doris Blanchard my mum called that pole a poss-stick. I think I still have it - unless one of the blokes used it for kindling!
Bobbie Johnson Remember them well and the washboards.
Linda Howard Only the best... my mum had to be careful to check them first for elvers, crawlies and cockabullies!!...we kids had a lovely time in the creek and the river!!
Arlene Hutcheon There was one in my grandmothers wash house in Hokitika., too.
Venetia Hill I have a lovely wooden one I think white pine!
Pat Dooley Where is the wringer mounted on the divide between the two tubs
Brian McIntyre Same with my Mum too HeatherNewby. Our house would have been right on the edge of the Barber
Ray Friend We had one for years.
Karen Vincent Still have one and the wringer.although the rubbers are probably perished by now
Shirley Arabin when we modernised and replaced them they went into the garden and i grew my mint and parsley there.
Peter Gray One of these plus, the old copper boiler & a paddle board
Dorothy Wills I had concrete tubs a ringer and a copper for boiling the nappies and a glass washboard when I was first married
Mary Moffitt Dorothy Wills Did you rub your knuckles raw on it? I did, but it got the clothes clean.
Dorothy Wills Mary Moffitt yes a few times
Peter Dennehy My wife had one in the laundry, when I shifted in,
Patricia Atkinson We had one in Swanson street. Think it was still there a few years ago . Had the coal copper to. Boil water for washing. Can still hear mum go mad when dad used it to cook crayfish
Win Kane Remember these
David Walker Us kids had baths in these.
Heather Newby David Walker i remember us kids having baths in them too
Arlene Hutcheon Would you believe, in 1986, when we moved into a Dairy Co house up in Paerata, near Pukekohe, we had one of those double concrete tubes? There was still room for my washing machine and dryer though.
David Coach-man they are hard to find nowadays! great for growing veggies in! :)
Patricia Stephens Mum dad had one we use hope in it on hot day lol so big you could bath in it. We also had big boiler use do sheets in which wss heated up by fire. Also used it for other things as well.
Noeline McCaughan I realise how old I am when I see concrete tubs being described as old, In my childhood I only saw wooden tubs, some homes had no wash-house and it was common to see (especially in rural areas) a round wooden tub on a stand under a small lean-to beside the back door, a bucket for filling and emptying the tub usually stood underneath.
Esther Esther Bruns When ours was taken out, it made a wonderful tub for tadpoles
Michael Nottingham Hahaha, I used it for that purpose before it was taken out. Frogs and Tadpoles much to my parents dismay.
Ngaio McKee We had one in Cobden
Jan Sowman Those were the days . We had a copper as well to heat the water
Shona Ratana Yes memories of tubs and copper early 1950s Dobson Mining house
Barb Kennedy Ours had the copper boiling beside it
Jeanie Stechman And a scrubbing board.
Richard Pope The tubs are heavy, had to be.
Betty Juranovich Had goldfish in mine lol
Tony Shirley Watters We also had twin tubs and a copper in Blaketown . Shirley Gordon
Mike Mora We have one at Awatuna for frogs and Tadpoles. Out side of course.
Heather Newby Mike Mora ahhhhhh.... Frogs and tadpoles!!! Thats a whole new post! Bullfrogs and tree Frogs and hundreds of tadpoles!
Deborah Marley Tadpoles and frogs seem to be on the decline. ..I used to love them wen I lived in rotomanu I had them inside in a fish tank for my son but ended up having to put them back outside cause my dog sat in front of it most of the day trying to catch them...he used to get in the old bath outside which was full of them ...but he still couldn't catch them
Helen Hadland Each year we have lots of tadpoles in a little fishpond out back. Love watching them turn into frogs and hear the noise. We thought we had lost them a few years back but no they have returned.
Eve Holley we had one in wellington and a copper had to heat the water to do washing the ringer had a glass board for washing
Janaka Mary Bartlett We had one of those. Also had a copper boiler out in the porch that Mum washed the sheets/blankets in. Then at Xmas Dad would use the copper to get the feathers off the turkeys....OMG how times have changed.
Gary Watts Can vaguely remember the Twin wooden tubs, my late mother regularly used for washing clothes within an outside wash house, which included a copper. This was on our family Dairy Farm.
Helen Hadland We use these tubs for our cow troughs now and growing mint.
Marie Hamilton it was so dangerous for trucks. i remember being told to jumo if i had to outa the truck as it was so dangerous.. 34 years ago
Shirley Barrow Oh the memories this photo brings back. My Maternal Grandma had one of these, and the old copper. My sister and I would ring out sheets the old fashioned way.
Dave Hamilton Replace the washing machine with a copper, and you have the first laundry I can remember.
Bob Jamieson We had those and a boiling copper in Runanga. and layer, much later, one was in the garden shed in Sumner when we moved in.Made a great herb garden with some gravel in the base and topsoil on top.
Julie Kersten
Still use one!
Jan Vuillermin
Julie Kersten
Linda Griffin
Had one of these with a wringer in between and a glass wash board in one of the tubs
Bazza Morland
So did everyone Linda , Mum never complained when a new 'Surgemaster' wringer wash machine was purchased , much easier to 'cleanse' Noels 'pit clobber' ! ..
Kevin Oregan
Still use one. Kevin
Brent Whyte
Yer I got four of them
Bazza Morland
Thank goodness . Most have a new life 're-purposed' in paddocks !
Bob Homewood
Bazza Morland or become big flower pots
Bazza Morland
.... and that Bob !
Marie Harrington
Had one growing up
Allan Quinn
We had one just like it in our house in Westport thanks for sharing
Sophie Allan
Saw one at the dump shop the other day, wish I'd grabbed it now.
Maggie Riordan
That’s what I grew up with
Murray Saunders
We occasionally get them in for sale at work.
The legs with out cracks in them are even harder to find
Lois Iacoppi
Know them well
Anje Kremer
yes made it in to a planter box by the gate .
Sandra Skates
Mines in the garden doing it s job with flowers
Bruce Anderson
Hi I have four of them full of Plans
Dorothy Wills
I had one of those when I first married with a hand writer mounted on the middle of it between both tubs
Janine Norcliffe
Would make a great planter box ..lick paint .some decoration .
Raylene Cathcart
I still use one and I have quite a few I use as feed bin for the horses..
Eve Holley
We had one when I was young in wellington and had a hand wringer in the middle them
Louise Blair
Lmao looks just like the garden planters everyone has
Mary Griffith's
Great tubs
Nick Coxon
Lead waste
Les Holmes Germanicus
I think these were locally made at Cooper's Concrete Tanks and products just north of Camerons. I was using mine as a washtub until fairly recently.
Helen Joan Forrest
There was a double one in the house we moved into in Reefton. Shelves above which were full of preserved fruits etc. During the Inangahua Earthquake the jars crashed down into the tubs. What a mess.
Christine McNicol
Brilliant for striking cuttings in. Stay cool & damp in a shady spot.
Margaret Grant
One in my garden they were bloody heavy..
Graeme Tucker
Great for stock water.
Den O'Brien
Yep there's one in our garden too
Sharleen Nicole Williams
Haha I have one as my laundry sink
Roger Strong
I think that the wooden ones that preceded them were inclined to leak especially it they were dry for too long...
Jean Keenan
have one in back yard with violets in was here when we bought the flat.
Rob Lunn
I am pleased to hear that Margaret commented on their weight have exited them from many a dwelling with the help of three or four of my burly mates
Heather Newby
Rob Lunn yes.. they are really heavy!!
Pauline Barker
We’ve gone some in our garden now.
Leslie Simons
I know where they still use these in mot
Catherine Brian Denton
They make great garden boxes
Pat Dooley
I remember them well. With the hand operated wringer mounted on the divider between the tubs
Katarina Leaf-Dobbs
Love theseJacinda Te Rata Moran
I've got one absolutely love it
Margi Adamson
I remember those days!
Ross Davis
Good for tadpoles when I was a kid
Jo E Nicol
Ross Davis and Crawlies
Bronwen Skates
Got this twin concrete tub on our deck full of flowers. A great memory as from my late mums wash house
Bronwen Skates
John Flattery-donohoe
remem the tub same as ran down beach was about 3yr old an straight on 2 the blue bottles an stung shit out of me an mum took me hm put my feet in tub an sat me on the edge an filled tub with water an stuff for stingswasnt a gd day for me as got my han… See more
Marcus Madden
old hand wringer in the middle of the tubs.
Helen Willis
Oh and the blue bags for the cold water
Sheri Wright
Make great herb gardens.
Anne Stapleton
Ive got one still in use today .
Leslie Hanlon Harris
Same one still use in our 1935 cottage at Haast. Will be using it for a “dog bath” in the new house laundry/mud room lol. Love it elevated! Good work!
Karen Da Via
I've got garden mint planted in mine.
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
I reckon, Les Holmes Germanicus. My brother Eric worked there for a while. Just round the corner from the old Holmes residence.
Nina Townsend
Got a double outside & single still in my wash house
Susan Walker
We had them and a copper and hand wringer.
Bronwen Skates
Susan Walker same as us . Mum used it bringing up us 5 kids plus had to keep coal range going for meals and hot water etc
Marilyn Fraser
We had an old ringer between the tubs. (Very modern)
Lee Henderson
Mine is a sheeps trough
Yvonne Jean
great for herbs and mint
Thelma Wilkins
We had one of those growing up. In the the good old dayPatricia Milne
We had one like that with the wringer in the middle at our house at Ross and a copper to do the washing in.Liz Hay
These tubs were standard laundry equipment. Ours were next to a copper in which the laundry was done after the water was heated by a fire lit underneath it. The tubs had a handwringer mounted between the two, and were used to rinse the clothes. Doing the laundry was hard physical work and Monday was traditionally wash day after the weekly bath. (Heating water for a bath was another chore.) Clothes weren't changed as often as today, maybe weekly, but natural fabrics such as wool and cotton didn't smell like artificial ones do.
Gary Watts
Can vaguely remember similar wooden tubs in the washouse (which was a separate building away from the house) on our family farm in rural South Taranaki. A copper was also located in the corner which was utilized for hot water, obviously following the burning of kindling wood in the bottom for heat.
Christine Stewart
I remember these, wow!
Gaye Waide
Christine Stewart I do too - made of concrete - ugly but did the job ..
Rob Absalom
Christine Stewart hahaha me too. with a clothes ringer in between the tubs held by a couple of wing nuts.
Christine Stewart
Rob Absalom yes, I remember getting my long hair caught in the ringers
Christine Stewart
I'm awake, very much awake,
Neville Chaney
Still got one as a sheep trough.
Jason Clark
I have a single one of these in my laundry and use it everyday.
They are great to use for all sorts of different things and very solid without any movement whatsoever, the great bonus about these is the fact that they are very large and very deep...give me a moment and I'll grab my tape measure.....I'm back... The Depth of inside of tub is 330mm...Length around 600mm with a width of 530mm.
Dorothy Wills
I had one of these when I married in 1960 with a hand ringer bolted across the middle
Linda Howard
I remember them well, the wringer was set up between them.
Mike Stagg
Have one as my garden planter, didn't want it to be destroyed. 8n
Keith Taylor
Mike Stagg likewise !
Maree Lewis
Everybody had them, so there must be thousands lurking in back yards, and on small blocks as a water trough. Ugly, weren’t they?
Wendy Bruce
Maree Lewis they were but that’s how I ‘bathed’ between the weekly Sunday bath.
Peter Gray
Just need the copper and wringer to complete the wash house i knew as a kid
Peter Spence
Rinso or Persil soap powder in the left tub - then thru' the wringer to the second tub containing Reckitt's blue - -
Eve Holley
We had them when I was growing up with the ringer in middle tubs
Julie Leaf
Me to when we lived in Franz
Jeanette Corkran
Yep had them,with my ringer washing machine.
Glenda O'Donnell
I remember them we had one of them when I was younger
Darrell Andrews
Haven’t seen one of those for a while lol
Kevin O'Regan
Use them every day.
Caroline Dunlop
Something that was in our wash house. With wash board and wringer and of course the copper, and after 4 children, Mum became the proud owner of a wringer washing machine with a petrol engine.
Christine Stewart
I remember these, wow!❤️
Gaye Waide
Christine Stewart I do too - made of concrete - ugly but did the job ..
Rob Absalom
Christine Stewart hahaha me too.Caroline Dunlop
Something that was in our wash house. With wash board and wringer and of course the copper, and after 4 children, Mum became the proud owner of a wringer washing machine with a petrol engine.
Ian Miller
I still have one - outside. In principle it is for growing herbs, but it seems to end up growing weeds faster.
Brian Langton Yep we had them in Westport plus the old copper it must have been bloody hard work back then I can always remember my Grans face after she had finished bright red and she was knacked.
Heather Newby my Mums fingers were frozen after she hung out the washing in winter and the sheets would be solid on the line after a frost
Gail Callaghan We had one of these in Sydney
Michael Dense I still got one herb garden
Heather Newby same with me... do you have anything in the base for drainage?
Michael Dense Heather Newby no
Sandy Brears Good place to grow the mint now
Phyllis Aberhart Good for water for horses
Craig Grundy Would have had a wash board ribbing inside as well
Sheila Dixon Got one in the garden in Hari Hari. Free to a good home!!!
Bernice Jennison I keep my coal in them at the back door Very handy
Helen Brennan We had one boys put tadpoles in it in garden
Wendy Bruce There was 1 in our wash-house. I ‘bathed’ in 1 side every night except Sunday’s. When it was real bathtime
Catherine O'Neil I am still using one in my house in Nelson. It works well, so see no reason to change it. I do wash my delicates in a bucket, I must confess.
Anje Kremer had1 now used as a flower box at my gate
Jeannie Johnson Yes I would love one if any one has one please let me know
Craig Smith Our old washhouse when i was a kid had one of these and a copper beside it
Katarina Leaf-Dobbs We did as well when we lived in Haast :)
Jenny Marshall Craig Smith we had one in riccarton, 2 concrete tubes with wringer in the middle...had to be careful not to get your hand and or arm caught in it... and the copper beside it.
Sandy Hayes Incredible have not seen one like that in years
Denis Mellett excellent for growing herbs,mint and parsley
JeffJanet Curtin The one we had in the outside wash house in Addington was made of timber. We had to bathe in that after rugby. Had a coal fired copper beside it where dad cooked the crayfish
Cynthia McCaughan Probably Kauri. My first house had them too
Jennifer Nicol Growing raspberries in ours.
Lindsay Blincoe Yes, I grew up with a laundry like this plus a washing machine, one lifted the clothes from it into the tub, rinsed them then fed into a diabolical wringer into the other tub. Hard work!!!!
Doris Blanchard I remember having those and the wooden pole that we used to transfer the clothes from one to the other. Also remember having washboards, 1 wooden and 1 glass.
Mary Moffitt Doris Blanchard my mum called that pole a poss-stick. I think I still have it - unless one of the blokes used it for kindling!
Bobbie Johnson Remember them well and the washboards.
Linda Howard Only the best... my mum had to be careful to check them first for elvers, crawlies and cockabullies!!...we kids had a lovely time in the creek and the river!!
Arlene Hutcheon There was one in my grandmothers wash house in Hokitika., too.
Venetia Hill I have a lovely wooden one I think white pine!
Pat Dooley Where is the wringer mounted on the divide between the two tubs
Brian McIntyre Same with my Mum too HeatherNewby. Our house would have been right on the edge of the Barber
Ray Friend We had one for years.
Karen Vincent Still have one and the wringer.although the rubbers are probably perished by now
Shirley Arabin when we modernised and replaced them they went into the garden and i grew my mint and parsley there.
Peter Gray One of these plus, the old copper boiler & a paddle board
Dorothy Wills I had concrete tubs a ringer and a copper for boiling the nappies and a glass washboard when I was first married
Mary Moffitt Dorothy Wills Did you rub your knuckles raw on it? I did, but it got the clothes clean.
Dorothy Wills Mary Moffitt yes a few times
Peter Dennehy My wife had one in the laundry, when I shifted in,
Patricia Atkinson We had one in Swanson street. Think it was still there a few years ago . Had the coal copper to. Boil water for washing. Can still hear mum go mad when dad used it to cook crayfish
Win Kane Remember these
David Walker Us kids had baths in these.
Heather Newby David Walker i remember us kids having baths in them too
Arlene Hutcheon Would you believe, in 1986, when we moved into a Dairy Co house up in Paerata, near Pukekohe, we had one of those double concrete tubes? There was still room for my washing machine and dryer though.
David Coach-man they are hard to find nowadays! great for growing veggies in! :)
Patricia Stephens Mum dad had one we use hope in it on hot day lol so big you could bath in it. We also had big boiler use do sheets in which wss heated up by fire. Also used it for other things as well.
Noeline McCaughan I realise how old I am when I see concrete tubs being described as old, In my childhood I only saw wooden tubs, some homes had no wash-house and it was common to see (especially in rural areas) a round wooden tub on a stand under a small lean-to beside the back door, a bucket for filling and emptying the tub usually stood underneath.
Esther Esther Bruns When ours was taken out, it made a wonderful tub for tadpoles
Michael Nottingham Hahaha, I used it for that purpose before it was taken out. Frogs and Tadpoles much to my parents dismay.
Ngaio McKee We had one in Cobden
Jan Sowman Those were the days . We had a copper as well to heat the water
Shona Ratana Yes memories of tubs and copper early 1950s Dobson Mining house
Barb Kennedy Ours had the copper boiling beside it
Jeanie Stechman And a scrubbing board.
Richard Pope The tubs are heavy, had to be.
Betty Juranovich Had goldfish in mine lol
Tony Shirley Watters We also had twin tubs and a copper in Blaketown . Shirley Gordon
Mike Mora We have one at Awatuna for frogs and Tadpoles. Out side of course.
Heather Newby Mike Mora ahhhhhh.... Frogs and tadpoles!!! Thats a whole new post! Bullfrogs and tree Frogs and hundreds of tadpoles!
Deborah Marley Tadpoles and frogs seem to be on the decline. ..I used to love them wen I lived in rotomanu I had them inside in a fish tank for my son but ended up having to put them back outside cause my dog sat in front of it most of the day trying to catch them...he used to get in the old bath outside which was full of them ...but he still couldn't catch them
Helen Hadland Each year we have lots of tadpoles in a little fishpond out back. Love watching them turn into frogs and hear the noise. We thought we had lost them a few years back but no they have returned.
Eve Holley we had one in wellington and a copper had to heat the water to do washing the ringer had a glass board for washing
Janaka Mary Bartlett We had one of those. Also had a copper boiler out in the porch that Mum washed the sheets/blankets in. Then at Xmas Dad would use the copper to get the feathers off the turkeys....OMG how times have changed.
Gary Watts Can vaguely remember the Twin wooden tubs, my late mother regularly used for washing clothes within an outside wash house, which included a copper. This was on our family Dairy Farm.
Helen Hadland We use these tubs for our cow troughs now and growing mint.
Marie Hamilton it was so dangerous for trucks. i remember being told to jumo if i had to outa the truck as it was so dangerous.. 34 years ago
Shirley Barrow Oh the memories this photo brings back. My Maternal Grandma had one of these, and the old copper. My sister and I would ring out sheets the old fashioned way.
Dave Hamilton Replace the washing machine with a copper, and you have the first laundry I can remember.
Bob Jamieson We had those and a boiling copper in Runanga. and layer, much later, one was in the garden shed in Sumner when we moved in.Made a great herb garden with some gravel in the base and topsoil on top.
Julie Kersten
Still use one!
Jan Vuillermin
Julie Kersten
Linda Griffin
Had one of these with a wringer in between and a glass wash board in one of the tubs
Bazza Morland
So did everyone Linda , Mum never complained when a new 'Surgemaster' wringer wash machine was purchased , much easier to 'cleanse' Noels 'pit clobber' ! ..
Kevin Oregan
Still use one. Kevin
Brent Whyte
Yer I got four of them
Bazza Morland
Thank goodness . Most have a new life 're-purposed' in paddocks !
Bob Homewood
Bazza Morland or become big flower pots
Bazza Morland
.... and that Bob !
Marie Harrington
Had one growing up
Allan Quinn
We had one just like it in our house in Westport thanks for sharing
Sophie Allan
Saw one at the dump shop the other day, wish I'd grabbed it now.
Maggie Riordan
That’s what I grew up with
Murray Saunders
We occasionally get them in for sale at work.
The legs with out cracks in them are even harder to find
Lois Iacoppi
Know them well
Anje Kremer
yes made it in to a planter box by the gate .
Sandra Skates
Mines in the garden doing it s job with flowers
Bruce Anderson
Hi I have four of them full of Plans
Dorothy Wills
I had one of those when I first married with a hand writer mounted on the middle of it between both tubs
Janine Norcliffe
Would make a great planter box ..lick paint .some decoration .
Raylene Cathcart
I still use one and I have quite a few I use as feed bin for the horses..
Eve Holley
We had one when I was young in wellington and had a hand wringer in the middle them
Louise Blair
Lmao looks just like the garden planters everyone has
Mary Griffith's
Great tubs
Nick Coxon
Lead waste
Les Holmes Germanicus
I think these were locally made at Cooper's Concrete Tanks and products just north of Camerons. I was using mine as a washtub until fairly recently.
Helen Joan Forrest
There was a double one in the house we moved into in Reefton. Shelves above which were full of preserved fruits etc. During the Inangahua Earthquake the jars crashed down into the tubs. What a mess.
Christine McNicol
Brilliant for striking cuttings in. Stay cool & damp in a shady spot.
Margaret Grant
One in my garden they were bloody heavy..
Graeme Tucker
Great for stock water.
Den O'Brien
Yep there's one in our garden too
Sharleen Nicole Williams
Haha I have one as my laundry sink
Roger Strong
I think that the wooden ones that preceded them were inclined to leak especially it they were dry for too long...
Jean Keenan
have one in back yard with violets in was here when we bought the flat.
Rob Lunn
I am pleased to hear that Margaret commented on their weight have exited them from many a dwelling with the help of three or four of my burly mates
Heather Newby
Rob Lunn yes.. they are really heavy!!
Pauline Barker
We’ve gone some in our garden now.
Leslie Simons
I know where they still use these in mot
Catherine Brian Denton
They make great garden boxes
Pat Dooley
I remember them well. With the hand operated wringer mounted on the divider between the tubs
Katarina Leaf-Dobbs
Love theseJacinda Te Rata Moran
I've got one absolutely love it
Margi Adamson
I remember those days!
Ross Davis
Good for tadpoles when I was a kid
Jo E Nicol
Ross Davis and Crawlies
Bronwen Skates
Got this twin concrete tub on our deck full of flowers. A great memory as from my late mums wash house
Bronwen Skates
John Flattery-donohoe
remem the tub same as ran down beach was about 3yr old an straight on 2 the blue bottles an stung shit out of me an mum took me hm put my feet in tub an sat me on the edge an filled tub with water an stuff for stingswasnt a gd day for me as got my han… See more
Marcus Madden
old hand wringer in the middle of the tubs.
Helen Willis
Oh and the blue bags for the cold water
Sheri Wright
Make great herb gardens.
Anne Stapleton
Ive got one still in use today .
Leslie Hanlon Harris
Same one still use in our 1935 cottage at Haast. Will be using it for a “dog bath” in the new house laundry/mud room lol. Love it elevated! Good work!
Karen Da Via
I've got garden mint planted in mine.
Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
I reckon, Les Holmes Germanicus. My brother Eric worked there for a while. Just round the corner from the old Holmes residence.
Nina Townsend
Got a double outside & single still in my wash house
Susan Walker
We had them and a copper and hand wringer.
Bronwen Skates
Susan Walker same as us . Mum used it bringing up us 5 kids plus had to keep coal range going for meals and hot water etc
Marilyn Fraser
We had an old ringer between the tubs. (Very modern)
Lee Henderson
Mine is a sheeps trough
Yvonne Jean
great for herbs and mint
Thelma Wilkins
We had one of those growing up. In the the good old dayPatricia Milne
We had one like that with the wringer in the middle at our house at Ross and a copper to do the washing in.Liz Hay
These tubs were standard laundry equipment. Ours were next to a copper in which the laundry was done after the water was heated by a fire lit underneath it. The tubs had a handwringer mounted between the two, and were used to rinse the clothes. Doing the laundry was hard physical work and Monday was traditionally wash day after the weekly bath. (Heating water for a bath was another chore.) Clothes weren't changed as often as today, maybe weekly, but natural fabrics such as wool and cotton didn't smell like artificial ones do.
Gary Watts
Can vaguely remember similar wooden tubs in the washouse (which was a separate building away from the house) on our family farm in rural South Taranaki. A copper was also located in the corner which was utilized for hot water, obviously following the burning of kindling wood in the bottom for heat.
Christine Stewart
I remember these, wow!
Gaye Waide
Christine Stewart I do too - made of concrete - ugly but did the job ..
Rob Absalom
Christine Stewart hahaha me too. with a clothes ringer in between the tubs held by a couple of wing nuts.
Christine Stewart
Rob Absalom yes, I remember getting my long hair caught in the ringers
Christine Stewart
I'm awake, very much awake,
Neville Chaney
Still got one as a sheep trough.
Jason Clark
I have a single one of these in my laundry and use it everyday.
They are great to use for all sorts of different things and very solid without any movement whatsoever, the great bonus about these is the fact that they are very large and very deep...give me a moment and I'll grab my tape measure.....I'm back... The Depth of inside of tub is 330mm...Length around 600mm with a width of 530mm.
Dorothy Wills
I had one of these when I married in 1960 with a hand ringer bolted across the middle
Linda Howard
I remember them well, the wringer was set up between them.
Mike Stagg
Have one as my garden planter, didn't want it to be destroyed. 8n
Keith Taylor
Mike Stagg likewise !
Maree Lewis
Everybody had them, so there must be thousands lurking in back yards, and on small blocks as a water trough. Ugly, weren’t they?
Wendy Bruce
Maree Lewis they were but that’s how I ‘bathed’ between the weekly Sunday bath.
Peter Gray
Just need the copper and wringer to complete the wash house i knew as a kid
Peter Spence
Rinso or Persil soap powder in the left tub - then thru' the wringer to the second tub containing Reckitt's blue - -
Eve Holley
We had them when I was growing up with the ringer in middle tubs
Julie Leaf
Me to when we lived in Franz
Jeanette Corkran
Yep had them,with my ringer washing machine.
Glenda O'Donnell
I remember them we had one of them when I was younger
Darrell Andrews
Haven’t seen one of those for a while lol
Kevin O'Regan
Use them every day.
Caroline Dunlop
Something that was in our wash house. With wash board and wringer and of course the copper, and after 4 children, Mum became the proud owner of a wringer washing machine with a petrol engine.
Christine Stewart
I remember these, wow!❤️
Gaye Waide
Christine Stewart I do too - made of concrete - ugly but did the job ..
Rob Absalom
Christine Stewart hahaha me too.Caroline Dunlop
Something that was in our wash house. With wash board and wringer and of course the copper, and after 4 children, Mum became the proud owner of a wringer washing machine with a petrol engine.
Ian Miller
I still have one - outside. In principle it is for growing herbs, but it seems to end up growing weeds faster.
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