If anyone with an informed interest of our area were to come across the document (below), he or she would automatically know that it originated from the Arrow valley: this would be the case because of the surnames of the signaturies.

The names which we have marked seem to be common in the history of Alcester and its satellite villages. The agreement, in fact, comes from Bidford-on-Avon.
(Due to technical limitations only a transcription is available at this time)

Transcription of agreement

June 15th 1875 Terms agreed upon by the undersigned for wages to offer to the workmen from this date. Time as usual 6 to 6 ordinary meal time included: no Beer - 14 shillings able-bodied men - 16 shillings head Carters and shepherds. 6 per day extra when haymaking to include overtime, one hour and a half to be allowed for meals, ordinary days. 5 shillings per day when harvesting all piece work to be settled by men and their employers. no beer to be given under any circumstances what so ever

Peter Davis Chairman William F. Holton Charles Baylis John Lane James Milward Herbert Coney EB H. Bromford R.A.Brookes Thomas Hodges George Heming Charles Heming Walter Harward H.L. Fisher William Tipping Henry Adkins

John Careless John Fisher John Proiser Henry B. Slatter Walter Wm. Hendley Thomas Sheaf M. Wadley Thomas Wesson John Hemus William Rinwell Howard Fleet

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