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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

@ana @robb My parents had a special ‘rotary iron’ — a big padded rotating drum with a curved hot plate pressing onto it — which was used for sheets and similar. 😱 It was actually quite fun to use.
Something like this, though ours was a table-top model.
miele.co.uk/e/rotary-ironer-b-

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toooobeeee :verified:

@betschart @KimSJ @ana @robb well, let me contribute to this glorious thread: when I was a young boy my mother would collect all the newly washed bed linen and table cloths, and wander down the street to some place that was called a "Heißmangel". The quarter's female population would gather around the gargantuan ironing appliances there, and take turns...

three women working on a huge mangle, pressing/ironing bed linen
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