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..........meet for a scrub and chat here at the village laverie:
These laveries are usually found with roofs alongside the village stream or river but here, before mains water arrived, they must have pumped or pulled well water for washing clothes.
These wash houses always make me smile but probably didn't have the same effect on the ladies of yester-year.
This is St Alexandre in the Rhône Valley.
Colin ???
These laveries are usually found with roofs alongside the village stream or river but here, before mains water arrived, they must have pumped or pulled well water for washing clothes.
These wash houses always make me smile but probably didn't have the same effect on the ladies of yester-year.
This is St Alexandre in the Rhône Valley.
Colin ???