Parish relief was only one way that people in Armitage and Handsacre helped those in need. For more than two centuries, local benefactors provided bread, coal and financial assistance to struggling families. Their gifts reveal a long tradition of neighbourly support that stood alongside, and sometimes softened, the realities of the Poor Law.
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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.