Fri 11 Dec 2015: Charlbury Society:The Victorian market town lodging house
This event is in the past.
Talk to be given by Barrie Trinder:
Memorial Hall 8 p.m. Refreshments 7.30 p.m.
All welcome. Non-members £3.00. Under 18 free.
Lodging houses were to be found in most market towns in Victorian England, even in the smallest. They had an evil reputation as sources of infection, both medical and moral, and reformers were eager to control them. Dr Trinder's talk is based on a wide-ranging survey of lodging houses across most of England, and shows the important functions that they performed within society, as temporary resting places for skilled men on the tramp, as alternatives to the workhouse, and as bases for itinerant traders and popular entertainers, including German bands. Dr Trinder will also look at the varied buildings that were used as lodging houses, at the men and women who were keepers, and the culture of the lodging house kitchen.