The family enters the workhouse
What will this mean for all them all?
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 The family prepare for a very different life: a life away from the farm and a step into the unknown.
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An elderly farm labourer and his wife taken around 1850
[Shropshire Archive reference:PH/S/14/2]
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The gentleman in the photograph is wearing a smock and leather gaiters. These were common forms of dress for the agricultural labourer of the mid 19th century. Smocks were sometimes referred to as drabbets or drappets.
Many smocks were highly decorated with embroidery across the chest and shoulders. This form of dress went out of fashion towards the end of the 19th century to be replaced by the waistcoat and jacket.
It would be these personal clothes which would be swapped for standard workhouse clothes if the family entered the workhouse.
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