Last knocking of Victoriana

Watching the TV programme, Victorian Farm, I realised I came into this world just as the final dregs of Victoriana and before were leaving. Many of the things the people use on the farm and in their cottage I can remember using. On the farm they used a contraption that cut up Mangle Worzels for the cattle. You had to turn a big wheel by hand and I remember doing just that with a Land Girl. Flat Irons, blue in the wash, boiling in coppers were done every week. I didn’t ever cook on a range but we had one and I had to black lead it every week. Oil lamps of course were in regular use and candles. By the time I was 18 all had gone except the oil lamp in my father’s caravan.