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Remembering Worcester wash houses: when was wash day where you lived?


THIS week, I’m including a bit of my own family’s experience of living in Worcester, after a conversation with my mum about wash day in the 1950s and 60s.
It seems strange to think today with such ready access to automatic washing machines and dryers, that getting your washing clean and dry was quite an ordeal! 
So much so, that a number of laundries around the city did a roaring trade.
“It used to be the done thing to send your sheets to the laundry. Grandma did every week. They collected and delivered.
The Metropole Laundry, Powick Mills in 1951 ....

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