The local Conservation Area newsletter has just arrived in my inbox.
Always interesting (sic) is the "How We Lived Then" section
"...a century ago*, how we lived was very different in many ways.
There was no internet, no televisions, no mobile phones, no microwave ovens, not even any selfie sticks! Telephones and commercial flights were very much in their infancy and not something local people were likely to have experienced by then."
So far so predictable, but the next bit gave me cause to pause and ponder:
"The most common occupations in Britain at the time were: agricultural labourer, clerk, domestic servant and coal hewer."
That really brought home to me just how much the world has changed at a very fundamental level!
* [Ed: When my parents were leaving school for the Mill (mum) or orphanage to be a Cobbler in a different orphanage (Dad)]
Always interesting (sic) is the "How We Lived Then" section
"...a century ago*, how we lived was very different in many ways.
There was no internet, no televisions, no mobile phones, no microwave ovens, not even any selfie sticks! Telephones and commercial flights were very much in their infancy and not something local people were likely to have experienced by then."
So far so predictable, but the next bit gave me cause to pause and ponder:
"The most common occupations in Britain at the time were: agricultural labourer, clerk, domestic servant and coal hewer."
That really brought home to me just how much the world has changed at a very fundamental level!
* [Ed: When my parents were leaving school for the Mill (mum) or orphanage to be a Cobbler in a different orphanage (Dad)]
