Indian washmen

Indian washmen, or ‘dhobies’ (launderymen), would routinely leave laundered clothes to dry out in the open in the Dhoby Ghaut area. They would wash the clothes of residents in a stream that ran down from Orchard Road into the sea.

 

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View of the Cathay Building and Dhoby Ghaut

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Laundry drying at Dhoby Ghaut

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