The bagwash, the forerunner of the laundrette, 1940s-1960s UK
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40) Thompson Dry Cleaners
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The Liverpool launderettes keeping our clothes spotless for over 70 years - Liverpool Echo
The Salvation Army: Ebenezer Hall
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Doing laundry in 1916 Part II (the part where I actually do it) - The Dreamstress
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Doing laundry in 1916 Part II (the part where I actually do it) - The Dreamstress
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How People Used to Wash: The Fascinating History of Laundry
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GRIM HISTORIES: Bagwash and Reckitt's Blue - When Washing Day was a Monday
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Embodied Water Entanglements: Sex/Gender, Race/Ethnicity and Class Urban Sanitation Practices
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East and west on Southern Row: 1969
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Chapter Fifteen - Changed Consumer Patterns Childhood Experiences of War & Peace, 1939-1960