The cover image, shot sometime in the 1890s, shows a group of working at Neuadd Fawr Mansion (Llanwnnen, Ceredigion) after a hay harvest. No matter how tough times might feel today, they pail (pun unintended) in comparison to the graft of those times.
I believe Neudd Fawr was a manor house between 1554-1915, though I am willing to listen to corrections on the date. Like most other manor houses of this time period, workers were hired (often from poorer families and background) as agricultural labourers to tend to the fields. Inside and out of the manor houses, these workers would become a staple of the manor and often lived in a servants’ quarters – usually a small room in the house with a couple of beds for them. For many, it was an improvement.
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