- Female Employment
The sheer hard work and repetitive nature of Domestic duties, as required then, is nowadays difficult to appreciate., - Male Employment and General Employment Trends
Overall, this was a time when food shopping was carried out every day, - Shops and Shop workers
'Shops in general opened from 9am to 8pm with no closing for lunch. On Saturday it was 9am till 11pm', - Inns and Public Houses
A change in the law in 1830 (The Beer House Act) allowed a large number of beer houses to open and many later became Public Houses., - Public Service
Firemen have long played an important role in public service and Twickenham acquired its first engine in 1738., - Waterworkers
The Metropolis Water Act of 1852 prohibited the taking of water from the tidal Thames., - Nurserymen and Market Gardeners
In the 19th century Twickenham and Isleworth were important constituents of what was known as The Garden of England., - Transport Workers
The Railways led to much development and a huge increase in population., - Soldiers
In 1859 Charles Edward Murray founded the Whitton local volunteer corps, - Livelihoods from the River
Until the 18th century local roads were little more than dirt tracks, increasingly unsuitable for heavy goods, so leading to increased river traffic., - A Twickenham time-capsule
The items displayed form only a tiny part of the contents of a Twickenham shop that lay undisturbed for decades:, - People at Work Display
Enlarged copies of London United Tramways (LUT) tickets, dating from about 1903.,