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Craigmillar Steam Laundry
Couper, James Lamb, 1890, Photograph
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Craigmillar Steam Laundry
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Title
Craigmillar Steam Laundry, Edinburgh - ironing and finishing department
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Women work machines or iron and fold items at long tables in the ironing and finishing room of the laundry. Trolleys and baskets are nearby to tables.
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Couper, James Lamb
Date
1890
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Photograph
The Craigmillar Steam Laundry was founded in the early 1880's. It is described in 'A Descriptive Account of Edinburgh - Illustrated', published around 1893, as "the largest, best arranged, and most perfectly equipped establishment of this kind in Scotland". The laundry used state of the art equipment including steam driven washing machines and hydro-extractors, a type of spin drier. In addition to the cleaning, ironing and finishing of clothes the laundry dealt with a whole range of materials including carpets and curtains. All finished goods were despatched in the company's horse drawn vans. In the late nineteenth century the laundry employed roughly 130 people.
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