Food Connection

	Shropshire farmers often employed migrant workers, especially from Wales and Ireland. Many women went in search of work at harvest time and were paid 8d a day for weeding and haymaking in 1827. In 1869 a Government enquiry identified the county’s agricultural worker’s housing as being worse than any other part of the country other than Dorset. During this period the population of the county grew by 45%; that of Market Drayton grew by 53% - one of the largest increases in the county.
The Edwardian woman in the photograph from the Hinstock area is wearing rather fine clothes. She was perhaps a farmer’s wife or relative.

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