A stone floor, butter mould, tobacco cutter and shower - all from Mangowine Homestead
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (364640)
Rockingham, Australia
October 23, 2025 3:47am CST
Here is another collage from Mangowine Homestead. In the top right-hand corner on the left is an improvised shower. You can buy these now in canvas if you want a shower when you’re out camping. You put your hot/warm water in the container then by pulling the chain, water is allowed out the holes in the bottom.
Lower left is a mould which would be pressed into a pound of butter. My mother had a circular one which she used in the dairy when they were selling milk and butter. Lower right is a photo of a tobacco cutter. I’m not familiar with these but many back in those days smoked if they had the chance.
The upper photo on the left shows the stone floor. Wouldn’t that be hard on your feet and legs if you were standing all day on it?
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@BarBaraPrz (50514)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
1h
They probably had rugs or straw matts in place where one was expected to do a lot of standing.
@ptrikha_2 (48520)
• India
51m
That is quite an interesting portfolio of things and features used in the past.
Many people might be visiting this place just to capture all these things.
@LindaOHio (204075)
• United States
4h
We have fatigue mats on our kitchen floor. I can't imagine standing on stone.
@DaddyEvil (160192)
• United States
5h
We had molds like that when I was a kid... They had the shape of an ear of corn. Mom sold a lot of butter we kids churned by shaking thick cream in glass jars with lids on them. We did that while watching television (I did it while reading my books.)
We had other cast iron molds that mom used for baking cornbread that were also shaped like ears or corn. We added butter while the molds were still warm and it seeped down into the cornbread. 
We didn't have an indoor bathroom when I was growing up so took baths in a tub similar to the one beside that shower... Mom heated the water for baths on our wood burning kitchen stove. (One older brother started a construction business when I was around 9 or 10 years old and added a bathroom, tub and shower to our house.)
Concrete floors are hard enough on feet/legs/backs when you have to stand/work on them all day long. I'd think someone could break a leg if they weren't careful on that stone floor.
We didn't have an indoor bathroom when I was growing up so took baths in a tub similar to the one beside that shower... Mom heated the water for baths on our wood burning kitchen stove. (One older brother started a construction business when I was around 9 or 10 years old and added a bathroom, tub and shower to our house.)
Concrete floors are hard enough on feet/legs/backs when you have to stand/work on them all day long. I'd think someone could break a leg if they weren't careful on that stone floor.
