The wash house

France - Saint-Martin-de-Belleville

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247 Route du Châtelard, 73440 Les Belleville, France

The women did their laundry with bicarbonate of soda in a wooden tub of warm water. After thoroughly soaping, scrubbing and rinsing, they soaked the clothes in a bucket of boiling water preheated with ashes wrapped in a tea towel. Afterwards, they took their buckets to the stream or the wash house for rinsing, which they did with the help of a wooden beater on a plank of wood. Once this was all done, the washing was hung out over the balcony to dry.

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