Mam would be up at the break of dawn, summer or winter, and into the wash-house to prepare for washing day. The copper boiler would be filled by bucket from the outside tap -if it wasn't frozen- and the fire would be lit under the boiler. The clothes were boiled, scrubbed, possed with the poss stick in the wooden tub then rinsed. The water was squeezed from the clothes between the wooden rollers of the mangle then pegged onto the clothes line in the back lane and left to dry in the breeze. In the winter the clothes were dried indoors.