Location: Home » Learning » Record Office » Agriculture and Industry

Aspects of Life in 19th Century Worcestershire

Agriculture and Industry

With the Industrial Revolution under way, there were fewer jobs on the land. Until the event of factory reform, conditions in industry were appalling, but this did improve throughout the century.

Please click on the thumbnails for a larger picture.


Advert from Bevis's Builders
Price Book, p.228-229, 1884

Advert from Bevis's Builders
Price Book, p.120, 1884

Advert from Bevis's Builders
Price Book, p.25, 1884

Advert from Bevis's Builders
Price Book, p. 22, 1884

Averill's Hardware Shop,
Market Place, 1890

Situations Vacant,
Evesham Journal, p.5, 1878

The Old Stonebreaker,
c.1889

Hay Making, c.1896

The Depression in Agriculture,
Evesham Journal, p. 5, 1878

Horse Drawn Tram
St Johns, c. 1889

Further Reading

The Museum of English Rural Life

Back to the main Exhibition page     The River Severn