On the 1901 Census for Westerham, there are surprisingly few apprenticeships, being only two girls aged sixteen as apprentice dressmakers, one girl aged seventeen as an apprentice milliner, one boy aged 17 an apprentice blacksmith, one boy aged fifteen an apprentice stationer and one boy aged 14 apprenticed as a saddler to his father George ...
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This 1901 Census return records two tradesmen as ‘journeyman’ in their craft, one a journeyman Butcher, the other a journeyman shoemaker. This term was used for those who had completed an apprenticeship and were now in their first years of work as a skilled man – a bit like the green ‘L’ plate of today! ...
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Having secured his formal Deed of Apprenticeship with builders Stanley Berwick in Cramptons Road Sevenoaks, David started on his first trade position, that as plumbers apprentice working on Hartley Road, Ash Road and Oak Road in 1954-55: “…I started there in September 1954 when I left school, I’d taken a summer holiday from June and ...
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David continues: “…In those houses the water was heated on a back-boiler behind the kitchen fire and that fed a cast-iron hot water tank up in the bathroom cupboard. As theapprentice, it was my job to mix up the powdered asbestos with the correct amount of water in a big wooden barrel. The following day ...
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