What Life Was Like For A Baker During The Victorian Era | Victorian Bakers | Absolute History

Name: What Life Was Like For A Baker During The Victorian Era | Victorian Bakers | Absolute History
Uploaded: 2021
Duration: 50 min

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The bakers have said goodbye to the brutal working conditions of the 1870s urban bakery. It is now 1900 and Britain's middle classes are enjoying the democratisation of luxury. Bakers were quick to cash in - this time, the bakers have an elegant shop on the high street. Their new workplace boasts huge steam-belching ovens, but it is the early 20th-century electric dough mixer that takes the hard work out of baking. The technology has changed beyond recognition and so has their trade.

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