We know it is the Women’s Institute, is it amateur dramatics or maybe a fancy dress, we would love to know the occassion and who you recognise on this picture? Now do not be shy, it is too late now!
And for younger viewers, can you identify the wooden object the lady on the left is holding? Bob Doe wins the identification quiz telling us: ”My parents used to have something like this in the 1940s/50s. I believe it was used for washing clothes in a wooden or metal tub. The tub was called a poss tub and the wooden object was a posser.” Derick Pearson assists with: ”We had exactly the same type of object in the late 1940s and early 1950s, including the wooden beer barrel type tub with hoops on and later the galvanised ribbed metal one.”
Image courtesy of Ann Hamliton and Loftus Women’s Institute, many thanks to Bob Doe for identifying the poss tub and posser; also Derick Pearson for the update.
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