Figure 1.-- Here we see a baker and boy with an impressive load of bread doing door to door bread round deliveries. The photograph was taken in Twyford, Berkshire during 1895, We are guessing that is the baker himself making the deliveries. Notice the boy helping him. He is wsearing a boater and white jacket like the baker. Shop attendants commonly wore boaters, but they were less common fgor delivery boys. The boy in 1895 probably got the job after finishing primary school. He looks to be about 13-years old.

Baker boys were a little diffrent than shop boys and delivery boys in that they produced a product, bread and other baked goods. Learming how to bake was an important part of a boy's education. Especially in the 19h century, working class boys did not progress very far in school. In the early 19th century they might not attend school at all. Boys beginning to work at a bakery might be most;ly involved in deliveries. Many bakers had carts that made home deliveries. This was especially common in the 19th and early-20th centuries. Bakeries also had stores where boys may woirk rater like shop boys. I the 19h century there were no supmsarkets. Shopers had to go the the diufferent kinds of shops (green gricer, dry goods stores, bakeries, butcher, fishh monger ect.) Gradually many of the bakers boys learned the trade of baking. This was a little mnore involved compared to whart a shop boy had to learn. We do not yet have a lot of specific information about baker boys.

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