Grandma would never allow underwear to be hung on lines in the laneway in view of the neighbours and passers by

          - Florence Gallagher tenant No 58, 1944

Today clothes pegs are available in countless variations; from novelty animal shapes, designer versions in fashionable colours and Hurricane pegs that grip your clothes even in gales. From the practical wooden dolly pegs of the past to the colourful designer pegs of today this display explores the history of a simple but indispensable domestic object the clothes peg.

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