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<blockquote data-quote="Bluetit1802" data-source="post: 2296074" data-attributes="member: 94045"><p>In my family history and social history studies over the last 20 odd years has taught me that in England almost every household kept at least one pig. My ex father-in-law's home in South Wales, an old small terraced house, had a pig sty at the bottom of his garden. Thankfully no longer used in the days I used to visit. In East Lancashire near the Yorkshire border people made a lot of money growing and selling turnips for pig fodder. I have a copy of an accounts book kept by a shop keeper. On one day in 1804 she sold "half a load of turnips" to a man for 3 shillings, 1 stone of turnips to a lady for 6d. and another stone to a man for 6d. All for the pigs. She also sold 4 and a half stones of apples, which I also assume was mostly for the pigs. We have just returned from a cottage holiday in Warwickshire. The terraced cottage was built around 1880 in a row of about 20 others. Behind the back gardens were stone built outhouses now used as storage, but they have troughs round the walls. A neighbour informed us they were piggeries. Bacon was part of their every day staple diet.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bluetit1802, post: 2296074, member: 94045"] In my family history and social history studies over the last 20 odd years has taught me that in England almost every household kept at least one pig. My ex father-in-law's home in South Wales, an old small terraced house, had a pig sty at the bottom of his garden. Thankfully no longer used in the days I used to visit. In East Lancashire near the Yorkshire border people made a lot of money growing and selling turnips for pig fodder. I have a copy of an accounts book kept by a shop keeper. On one day in 1804 she sold "half a load of turnips" to a man for 3 shillings, 1 stone of turnips to a lady for 6d. and another stone to a man for 6d. All for the pigs. She also sold 4 and a half stones of apples, which I also assume was mostly for the pigs. We have just returned from a cottage holiday in Warwickshire. The terraced cottage was built around 1880 in a row of about 20 others. Behind the back gardens were stone built outhouses now used as storage, but they have troughs round the walls. A neighbour informed us they were piggeries. Bacon was part of their every day staple diet. [/QUOTE]
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