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A History of the County of Essex
… in Wormingford in the 19th century. In 1823 farm workers threatened to burn their employers' farms if their …
A History of the County of Essex
… largesse money was spent in Colchester by the farm- workers' families. There was an annual Whit Monday Fair …
A History of the County of Sussex
… by the presence of 1,500 members of the United Building Workers Union. 46 By the late 19th century, however, the … casual gardening afforded higher rewards to local farm-workers than agricultural overtime. 70 In the 1920s and 1930s …