Hello all,
I deleted the first posting on the subject 'Dolly Blue' without reading it
as I assumed it was yet more offensive junk email. (I am now getting ten
times as much junk as wanted emails). Perhaps we need to be careful in our
choice of subject lines?
Denny Plowman
-----Original Message-----
From: Selwyn Van Zeller [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 May 2003 17:56
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Dolly Blue
Reckitt's Blue- a laundry whitener- nick-named "dolly blue" after the dolly
tub(?)- was manufactured by Reckitt & Sons, established by yet another
Quaker named Isaac Reckitt.
It was made by using a combination of a synthetic ultramarine and sodium
bicarbonate. An earlier blue was made by grinding a semi-precious stone
lapis lazuli.
I remember helping my grannie do the washing when I was about 6 and being
amazed that she could put all the white sheets and grandad's best shirts
into this blue water and yet they would come out white. OMO, I think
introduced the blue whitener into its washing powders in the early sixties.
Blue is synonomous with white, and clean. I remember an ad in Australia for
a toilet cleaner - Bon Ami - the buy line was "You don't feel it's clean
unless it's blue!".
Dolly Blue is also the name of a narrowboat roaming the Midland canals.
Selwyn
Selwyn van Zeller
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