[72197] Cromer : Museum - Mangle

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[72197] Cromer : Museum - Mangle
[72197] Cromer : Museum - Mangle

Cromer Museum, 4 Tucker Street, Norfolk.
Mangle
Whiteleys was London's first department store, located in the Bayswater area of London. The store's main entrance was located on Queensway. The first store, described as 'an immense symposium of the arts and industries of the nation and of the world', was devastated in an enormous fire in 1897, one of the largest fires in London's history. A new store opened in 1912.

I assume they were the retailer of this mangle rather than the manufacturer.

After clothes were washed and rinsed, a mangle was used to squeeze out as much water as possible. The clothes and bed linen were fed between the two rollers, and the handle turned to pull it through. The water that was squeezed out was collected in the washtubs below to be re-used.

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Taken on: May 4, 2017
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