Big white sink in the kitchen(called a butler's sink, with a wooden draining board . A "copper" for the washing, heated by gas. A "posher" in my part of the world, to move the clothes about and make sure they all got well washed. Wooden tongs to take the clothes out of the copper and put them through the wringer.that was still the way in my home in 1947; in some ways, things were even more difficult in the postwar years than they'd been during the war.