Shropshire Routes to Roots

Register of Parish Apprentices in Oldbury, Shropshire. 1809.

Facing page of the Oldbury Register. Continuation of the entries in the Register of Parish Apprentices in Oldbury, Shropshire. 1809.

The Parish Examination of Thomas Holland, 1832. Provides an excellent first hand account (essentially a 'curriculum vitae') of the working life of a servant child.

Continuation of the Parish Examination of Thomas Holland, 1832.

Photograph of the workers at the Castle Car Works, Hadley. The exact date is uncertain, although the photograph is of interest as it illustrates the continuation of child labour into the early twentieth century.

Photograph of the workers at the Castle Car Works, Hadley. Close up of the juvenile workers at the factory. Early twentieth century.

Young milkmaids at work, late nineteenth/early twentieth century. Written on the back of the photograph was "Mary Edwards (on right) learning dairying. She then lived at Staunton on Arrow, near Kington, Herefs., and later in Shropshire."