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Craigmillar Steam Laundry- washing department
Couper, James Lamb, 1890, Photograph
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Craigmillar Steam Laundry- washing department
Craigmillar Steam Laundry- washing department
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Craigmillar Steam Laundry, Edinburgh - washing department
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Both men and women work machines with large barrels to wash items. In the middle of the room are trolleys and baskets full of laundry.
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Couper, James Lamb
Date
1890
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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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