If you are looking for events with which to celebrate King Charles’ coronation this year then why not take a look at the 1937 version and stage pillow fighting, cutting down a leg of mutton or even ‘climbing the greasy pole’? Like most towns and villages at that time a lot of effort was put… Continue reading A coronation carnival
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Caring for the needy – Part Two
A similar fate to James Conway befell two Waltho children, William and Jane, at even younger ages. Richard Waltho from Armitage had married Hannah Cox in Hamstall Ridware in 1785 and they had a son and a daughter in Hamstall Ridware. By 1791 the family was living in Armitage and reliant on poor relief as… Continue reading Caring for the needy – Part Two
Caring for the needy – Part One
In the 16th C there was no formalised practice for relief of the poor but the Act for the Relief of the Poor 1597 began a long process of setting up a legal requirement for helping the needy of each and every Parish in England and Wales. One of the first principles established was that… Continue reading Caring for the needy – Part One
Drunk and …
The introduction of beerhouses in 1830 led to more disorder and drunkenness and this is just a selection of the troubles our ancestors got into because of drink.
Handsacre poachers
By 1849 the pottery was shut. The pits were really struggling and there were no jobs down the pits for any miners in either Armitage or Handsacre. But you could always go foraging for wild fruit and roots, like your distant ancestors. Or go hunting for food, like your distant ancestors. Only they had brought in the hated Game Laws so now it was called poaching.