This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.*
Now this was Dad's welcoming present to 294 when we moved in in 1964.
I say Dad's but the reality will be that it will have been mum who insisted on this piece of cutting edge technology.
And with that "keyplate" which "automatically selects the right water temperature, the right washing action, the right number of rinses and the right spin-drying time for what ever wash you are doing" we could really feel the future had arrived.
And on top of all that here was a front loading machine which was already plumbed in and needed no endless filling of water buckets to put into the machine.
I could also comment on the rather sexist headline but won't.
Location; Well Hall
Picture; advert for the Hoover Keymatic, The Observer Magazine January 30 1966 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road,
I say Dad's but the reality will be that it will have been mum who insisted on this piece of cutting edge technology.
And with that "keyplate" which "automatically selects the right water temperature, the right washing action, the right number of rinses and the right spin-drying time for what ever wash you are doing" we could really feel the future had arrived.
And on top of all that here was a front loading machine which was already plumbed in and needed no endless filling of water buckets to put into the machine.
I could also comment on the rather sexist headline but won't.
Picture; advert for the Hoover Keymatic, The Observer Magazine January 30 1966 from the collection of Andrew Simpson
*One hundred years of one house on Well Hall Road,
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