Postcard Memories is a series of historic views and photos of Bradford West Gwillimbury, a trip down memory lane on a Saturday morning.
Edna Vernon, in Governor Simcoe Slept Here, remembered that children took their baths in one of the laundry tubs.
“The tub would be put in a small room, just off of the kitchen, and the water would have to be heated on the stove.”
Bath-time started with the smallest and youngest, then include older children, in order of age – as long as they could still fit in the tub.
“When we got a little bigger and did not fit in the tub anymore, it was more like having a birdbath,” said Edna. “By then, we would have to take a basin of water to our bedrooms and have a sponge bath. In the wintertime when we would move to the south part of the house, the tub would be set up in one of the bedrooms. Our heads were washed in a basin of water, and we would pour water over our heads to wash the soap out.”
Details from Governor Simcoe Slept Here: The legacy of West Gwillimbury.
