Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in time than we might believe. Yet at that time, in the most technologically advanced nation in the world, people buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mold forming and wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such household drudgery was routinely performed by the grandparents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Judith Flanders's...

"Through their eyes we see not only England as it really was in the 1850s--an England puffed with prosperity at home and chastened by war and mutiny abroad--but also much of the nineteenth-century Continent ...".

Henry Lomas was baptized 13 February 1793 in Watford, Hertfordshire. His parents were Decimus Lomas and Anne Halsey. He married Sarah Poulton 18 February 1843. He was a plumber and decorator. He died in 1858. Includes his diaries for 1822 and 1825-1828. Thomas Newcome was born 6 November 1777. His parents were Henry Newcome (1732-1803) and Elizabeth Hughes. He married Charlotte Winter, daughter of Thomas Winter. They had eleven children. He was the...