The Ariss Family, Upper Boddington, Northamptonshire

Photograph taken 1896 - 1920 © Reproduced by permission of Historic England Archive ref: BB98/02506

A group portrait of brother and sisters. Elsie standing to the right, brother George in the centre, Edith standing to the left, Ethel seated on the left and Clara seated to the right. The sisters are all wearing clothes that would have been the height of fashion for the middle classes around 1911.

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Northamptonshire Upper Boddington

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Edwardian (1902 - 1913)

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The Comptometer room at the Stratford Co-operative Society, showing girls and boys working on model 'E' comptometers. The comptometer, invented in 1887 by American, Dor Felt, was the first successful manual calculating machine. Many of the boys and girls look very young to be at work. The school leaving age was only raised to 14 in the Education Act of 1918 so they could well have been younger than that.

The Ariss Family, Upper Boddington, Northamptonshire

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