Winchester Laundry

From the collection of

Wessex Film and Sound Archive
Wessex Film and Sound Archive is based in Winchester. Providing the opportunity to see and hear history, the archive contains nearly 40,000 film, video and sound recordings relating to Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, ranging from late Victorian times to the present day. It includes both amateur and professional material, local newsreels, military and maritime subjects, as well as footage produced by individuals, businesses and organisations.

Winchester Laundry


William John Prall's short but historically interesting film starts at the entrance to a laundry in Winchester. We see large laundry vans waiting. Next we see a trio of young women chatting in a sunlit garden before entering the murky gloom of the laundry. In the shadows, we can see large numbers of women wearing white overalls laundering and ironing clothes using steam presses.


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