Milking at Stockers Farm, Luppitt, Devon

Photograph taken 1896 - 1920 © Reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive ref: BB98/06105

A view of two ladies milking cows at Stockers Farm, Wick near Luppitt. While life was changing for many women who lived in towns it changed much more slowly for those in the countryside.

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Devon Luppitt

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Edwardian (1902 - 1913)

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The Comptometer room at the Stratford Co-operative Society, showing girls and boys working on model 'E' comptometers. The comptometer, invented in 1887 by American, Dor Felt, was the first successful manual calculating machine. Many of the boys and girls look very young to be at work. The school leaving age was only raised to 14 in the Education Act of 1918 so they could well have been younger than that.

Milking at Stockers Farm, Luppitt, Devon

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