A clog maker who makes a lump, the school lady who waits for the children and workers who are working with peat. During the Compascumer Days, the Veenpark in Barger-Compascuum returns to the 1920s.
During these days you will experience what the lives of people looked like in the Veendorpen. Eighty volunteers are working here during the summer holidays, in the clothing style of that time. The pastor walks around, a trader passes by and the fire brigade shows how to extinguish a peat fire.
The washing women are also working in the park. Reporter Vera Beuke experienced that doing the laundry went very different at the beginning of the twentieth century than today. Women had a day’s work on it.
“It was hard work,” says Jantje, one of the volunteers. “You washed them on a washboard, then pulled them through the wringer, and then hang them up.” Where nowadays you will stretch a stain with what a remedy, it used to be by hand. Jantje: “Then you had blocks Sunlight soap. After that you put the clothes on the pale for a while and because of the sun the stain turned out often. And otherwise it would be strong.”
Curious how people used to do that? Then watch the video below in which reporter Vera Beuke is investigating.