Miss Agnes Toward 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.”
That is why Steve, alongside co-hosts Chris Phin and Connie Fleming, recorded a special episode of their popular podcast from Agnes’ home, The Tenement, which has been untouched in over half a century and was gifted to the National Trust for Scotland as a valuable time capsule.
We’ve been somewhere very special today, recording next week’s episode. Can you guess where? pic.twitter.com/VyOwNtzBV4
— Pass It On podcast (@ThePassItOnPod) October 24, 2019
Pass It On is based on a column which ran in The Sunday Post from the ’50s to the ’90s, where readers shared household advice. The tips can be funny, delightfully dated, but often still useful.
Inside Agnes’s house, she had original Pass It On tips, lovingly clipped from paper. 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, Chris and Connie also discuss 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.”
Listen to the podcast at podnews.net/podcast/1462631562
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