Re: Job of Census enumerators in the 19th century

I think that I have posted this before:

Anyone thinking of signing up as an enumerator............... might like to
see what their fellows had to cope with in Chesterfield 100 years ago. An
article from the Derbyshire Times, Saturday April 6th 1901 (reproduced by kind
permission of the editor) describes the difficulties they encountered.

Nick...

Very interesting. My own personal stories from 1981 are as follows:

1 Calling on a council flat which had been squatted by winos and having
helped them fill out the form one offered me a swig out of their cider
bottle. I am not sure how I managed to wriggle out of that one. One also
gave me a pound for my troubles (!) which as a young innocent I was troubled
by and I donated it to our NALGO hardship fund.

2 One ED included the Thomas a Becket pub on the Old Kent Road - which I
think is no longer open. In not so distant 1981, the closing time was at
3pm. When I called at 3.30pm they let me in and so I presume that I couldn't
report them for breaking the licensing laws they made sure that I had half a
pint!

Incidentally the first floor of the pub used to be a well-known boxing gym
where I believe that some big name boxers used to train. It wasn't the sort
of place that one wanted to mess with!

Jeff...

Henry Cooper trained there.

Nick...

I wondered!

Regards Stan Mapstone

Re: Job of Census enumerators in the 19th century - not much has changed