Back when I was a child this house only had cold water on demand, any hot water had to be boiled on the stove or in the very early days of this house on the fire hobs. This was a very common thing up to the 40s and early 50s. The sink was what we now call a butler's sink(http://www.notempire.com/images/uploads/Picture_6-57.jpg) which took more water to fill than our manual washing machine so a bowl, enamel way back then later plastic, was placed in the sink to save having to boil the very large kettle more than once. It was a habit that my mother kept to the end of her life and which I had until about 5 years ago when asked myself why I was doing it found no good reason and stopped doing it.
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which took more water to fill than our manual washing machine so a bowl, enamel way back then later plastic, was placed in the sink to save having to boil the very large kettle more than once. It was a habit that my mother kept to the end of her life and which I had until about 5 years ago when asked myself why I was doing it found no good reason and stopped doing it.