Name: ランドリーツアー - ビクトリア朝の道 (A Tour of the Laundry - The Victorian Way)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:56:22.000Z
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You see, I have just written to our local Member of Parliament and I'm hoping he's

going to represent our views in the next debate on women's suffrage.

Well don't you take any interest in  these affairs Mrs. Crocombe?

I think that Lady Braybrooke is an example to follow.

She takes a great interest in all the local affairs, you might have noticed?

After all the things she has done for the necessitous children of Walden, all her

charitable activities and so forth... - Well, I'll think about it.

Oh look! Here's your applicant for the laundry.

Ah good morning! I see that you're punctual - very good. I daresay you'd like

a tour of the service wing?  We shall go to the laundry directly.

This is the wet laundry. Now, I understand you've been assisting your mother with

her local cottage laundry but you will find this a very different proposition

at Audley End. You see you will have to deal with 600 towels every week, for example,

and you must be quite robust because we do like our laundry maids

to have stamina. We would never take a girl fresh from school, for example.

They simply don't have the right  experience or the strength.

And we certainly wouldn't take somebody  from the workhouse.

We are scrupulous about hygiene here at Audley End. For instance in one country house

that shall be nameless, do you know a case of scarlet fever was brought in

with a laundry basket. Huh! Quelle horreur.

So, we operate on a weekly laundry cycle here.

The laundry is delivered every Sunday evening by rail

depending on where Lord and Lady  Braybrooke have been staying.

Typically their London residence up at Brook Street, or it could be Bournemouth. Or Scotland.

You must rise at 3:00 on Monday morning to make sure all the fires are lit.

Then you can return to bed for a couple of hours, and then rise again to take a cup of tea

to your laundry superiors - Ellen and Sarah. You must make sure you show them

all due respect at all times for you are their junior.

You must know how to identify various stains.

Now, Lady Braybrooke's personal maid will deal with any stains pertaining to her lace, for example.

But there are many other stains aren't there. For example, how would you deal with, say, ink stains?

And now let's move on to the coppers shall we?

There are many different types of treatment depending on the nature of the laundry.

For instance, Mrs. Crocombe's kitchen  cloths will need a very hot boil.

So we put the washing in the copper here  when it's quite an average temperature

and then we wait for the temperature to come to the boil.

Mrs. Crocombe as you will know maintains very high standards of hygiene in her kitchen.

I'm sure you're quite aufait with wringing out excess water but you may well find that

this mangle helps you in that process.  Always be sure to use a mangle cloth.

And do be careful. Don't trap your fingers in it.

The laundry drying lawn is just out there

behind the cloud hedge, where the family's laundry can dry in privacy.

You do know how to bleach your laundry don't you?

We sometimes use the rather quaint method

of using the action of the sun upon our linens to make them whiter.

Quite often our linens are cream-colored and to reach the optimum level of white

well we might have to to and fro for quite some months before we reach that

white that we so desire. We usually prefer our grass that we lay our linens

upon to be of medium height and preferably on a frosty day.

And however long it takes...well, so be it.

Now, we've done the washing and the ringing

Now it's time to do the ironing and the finishing.

Now, we like to iron things when they're slightly damp. You must supply your own

iron cloth. You only pick up an iron without an iron cloth once.

I don't know whether your mother has one of these in her small laundry

but if ever see you using a box mangle to wring out excess water you will be instantly dismissed.

and everything that comes out of it should be perfectly flat and perfectly shiny.

Now, we come to Saturday. That's when we parcel up all the finished laundry,

we send it off to where it has to go  and that means labelling it.

It's another reason why we don't use commercial laundries. So what we have to do is make

sure it's dated, numbered, the house it's going from, the house it's going to, so on and so forth.

It's far too much effort! Why would we go to all that trouble?

So, I think that we've seen all we need to now.

I shall perhaps usher you into the servants hall

and Mrs Crocombe will procure you a cup of tea.  I shall read through your character and we

shall give you your expenses for your fare.

Thank you so very much for coming to see us.

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