When I started the little barn I wanted it to be as like the barn at my granny's as possible. There was always a mangle in the barn which I was not allowed to touch for fear of getting my hands trapped between the rollers -not sure how often this had happened to others but it was drummed into me not to touch it. I was occasionally allowed under close supervision to turn the heavy handle.
My mangle in the barn is from a Petite Properties kit.
I made a little board with very ill made butter pats and a slab of butter. In my day butter making had ceased in Lisbane but it must have been made in the 1930s and 40s from milk from the cows kept by my grandfather on the farm.
The kit I used for the barn is The Washhouse from Petite Properties. It has a division in the middle and I kept this as a store for tools. The little tools I purchased at Kensington Dolls House Fair London last May but I think I could make them. I would like to add an hook and a scythe to them as the latter two were used by farmers for cutting hay and grass in the North of Ireland.
