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Re: Young girls sent into service

Ted
Apart from newspaper adverts (when seaside hotel proprietors originated from Sheffield they wanted servants from their home town) there were numerous agencies or registry offices, dealing with both local and distance placements. In 1923 agencies such as Myers (Norfolk Street), Kathleen Dronfield (Ecclesall Road), Lille & Co. (Norfolk Row), Housemaid Generals (Blackpool) were advertising in the Sheffield papers. To illustrate the numbers of businesses put *servants* in the search box for directories.
Good evening Ted and many thanks for your information !

My hope is but I doubt I will be successful is to find exactly where she was employed.
I remember her telling me that whilst there it was the first time she had seen someone from the African continent and was frightened by his appearance !

Re: Young girls sent into service

Looking at School records on this site, there is the evidence she didn't stay long in service in

Lancashire as she was admitted back into school in August 1915

Yet another example of how life has changed from the good old days.

Can you imagine your 13 year old daughter now being sent into service.

Re: Young girls sent into service

Better than being sent to work in a MILL or Mine.

Elaine in Ottawa.