There was a time when almost every backyard in Australia had a chook house, an outdoor dunny, a vegetable garden and either a Hills Hoist or a clothes line propped up with a stick. Here’s a photo (below) from 1960 of a typical Australian suburban backyard which also includes a number of fruit trees. One […]
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Remember Swinging on the Hills Hoist Clothes Line?
The Hills Hoist is now an Aussie icon of course but had its humble beginnings right here in Adelaide in the mid-1940s. The legend goes that when Lance Hill returned home from war in 1945, his wife started nagging him about her clothesline. It was strung up between two posts and propped up in the […]