The latest episode of Pass It On podcast is out today, and this week it’s a very special episode.
Recorded on location at Glasgow’s Tenement House, the podcast is based on a column which ran in The Sunday Post from the ’50s to the ’90s, where readers shared household advice.
✨ In today’s special extended episode, we visit the home of Miss Agnes Toward, now a @N_T_S property called @TenementHouse11. She lived there 1911–1965, and clipped Pass It On tips from The @Sunday_Post! Join us as we immerse ourselves in the real world of Pass It On housewives! pic.twitter.com/zFLdmRQnwW
— Pass It On podcast (@ThePassItOnPod) October 30, 2019
The tips can be funny, delightfully dated, but often still useful, and The National Trust for Scotland’s historic house museum is a place that embodies the lives of those who wrote in with the ‘life hacks’ celebrated in the podcast.
Indeed, its resident, Miss Toward, actually clipped the Pass It On tips from The Sunday Post, and they’re still in her archive!
Agnes lived in her tiny tenement house at 145 Buccleuch Street in Glasgow for 54 years.
From the day she moved there in 1911 until 1965, Agnes looked after her furniture and possessions with love and care.
She was, as Pass It On podcast host Steve Finan describes: “One of the best housewives who ever lived – the hard-working, house-proud, Scottish housewife of the 1950s.”
The podcast unearth gems such as passing a slice of bread, fed through a mangle then toasting it with butter – a delicacy not to be missed.
Steve, alongside co-hosts Chris and Connie, also discusses how to make a dishcloth last longer, and why milk is good for lino.
Steve said: “If you had a beetroot stain in a tablecloth, wanted to dust behind a huge wardrobe, or needed advice on a stained shirt, then Pass It On was a must read.”
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