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Hampshire chimney sweeps book
« on: Tuesday 29 July 14 18:29 BST (UK) »
hi  is there sure a book Hampshire chimney sweeps .if so from 1800  to 1900
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Re: Hampshire chimney sweeps book
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 30 July 14 19:11 BST (UK) »
Hampshire libraries only have one book about chimney sweeps but it covers the whole of Britain.

British Chimney Sweeps: Five centuries of Chimney Sweeping by Benita Cullingford

Chimney sweeping was often a job carried out by gypsies.

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Middx - VAUS, ROBERTS, EVERSFIELD, INMAN, STAR, HOLBECK, WYATT, BICKFORD, SMITH, REDWOOD
Hants - SMALL, HAMMERTON, GRIST, FRYER, TRODD, DAGWELL, PARKER, WOODFORD, CROUTEAR, BECK, BENDELL, KEEPING, HARDING, BULL
Kent - BAYLY, BORER, MITCHELL, PLANE, VERNON, FARRANCE, CHAPMAN, MEDHURST, LOMAX, WYATT, IDEN
Devon - TOPE, BICKFORD, FOSTER
YKS - QUIRK, McGUIRE, BENN
Nott/Derbs - SLACK
Herts - BARNES
L'pool- PLUMBE
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