9th
May
1873
1873
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There were very many different reasons
for not turning up for school. One of the more unusual ones in Victorian
times was the bark harvest. Boys would
go to the local woods to remove bark from oak trees, for use in the tanning
of leather hides. |
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9th
May
1873 |
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"Friday - The school thinly attended during the week - boys harvesting the bark in the woods accounting for it". |
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There is another job for the children in the example below from Llanllugan School in April 1886... |
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2nd
April
1886 |
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"There are many children kept at home to look after the lambs". |
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There is more about not being at school on the next page... Digging out peat and going to the fair...
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RDR
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It seems likely that most
of the children would have enjoyed
this job rather more than some of the other jobs they were kept away from
school to do !