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Prince Maurice of Teck

1910–1910

Born
29 May 1910, Esher
Country of birth
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, today United Kingdom
Died
14 Sep 1910
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A life in time

  1. Born · Esher

    Birth, Esher

  2. Died

    Death

What was it like?

The world around Esher, 1910: who ruled, who else was alive, how people lived. This is general history, not a record about the family, and every item shows where it comes from.

Prince was born the same year as Dorothy Hodgkin, William Shockley, and Mother Teresa.

Known for

In their life

  • infant death
Born the same year

  • Dorothy Hodgkin

    British chemist

  • William Shockley

    American physicist and inventor (1910–1989)

  • Mother Teresa

    Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997)

  • Akira Kurosawa

    Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)

  • Jacques Cousteau

    French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)

  • Giuseppe Meazza

    Italian association football player and manager (1910-1979)

Fashion

Domestic servants' uniform requirements

Female domestic servants were required to purchase their own uniforms, which consisted of striped cotton dresses for morning chores and a black dress with a white cap and apron for afternoon duties.

Working-class menswear habits

Working-class men often wore their father's old suits for manual labor, leading to common sights of mismatched coats and trousers.

Music

Affordable dance halls in the 1920s

During the 1920s in Glasgow, young people flocked to dance halls where they could dance for six hours for the price of sixpence. These halls were known for being fiercely respectable, and participants focused on skill and style.

Concertina music at village festivals

In the early 20th century, concertinas were widely used at house dances, village festivals, and in pubs, where dancers might even perform on farm wagons. Collectors sometimes had to be stationed at doors to ensure dancers paid the musicians, as collecting fees became harder with the popularity of round dances.

Getting around

Horses ruled the early 1900s streets

Before World War One, horses dominated town streets, pulling everything from carriages and taxicabs to delivery carts and buses.

Daily life

Lighting in the home was rarely electric

Most late-Victorian and Edwardian families lacked electricity and relied on gas, or in rural areas, oil lamps and homemade rushlights.

Water was often collected from outside taps

Many homes lacked running water, requiring families to collect it from an outside tap shared with neighbours and heat it on the stove for bathing.

Food

Buying Meat for Home Cooking

Because many working-class homes lacked ovens, families often bought 3/4 pound of leg of beef and 1/2 pound of beef suet for meat puddings or rissoles.

Common Drink Adulteration and Reuse

Tea was frequently re-used until all flavour was extracted, and milk was sometimes adulterated with chalk and water.

Prices and wages
Around 1914–1915

Rising food costs for families in 1915

A standard family's weekly supply of food, which cost 19s 8d in July 1914, rose to 24s 5½d by March 1915 due to wartime price inflation.

Around 1875–1900

Bread prices at the century's end

By the late 19th century, bread prices declined to just above 1 penny per pound, a staple item for a subsistence-level family.

Work

Common Jobs and Uncertain Labour

Common jobs included agricultural labourers, coal miners, domestic servants, and factory workers, as the economy shifted from agriculture to manufacturing and service industries. Many unskilled workers were simply classified as labourers, relying on uncertain daily work at docks or quarries.

Early Morning Child Labour

In the early 1900s, some young boys rose as early as 3:00 a.m. to deliver newspapers or wake up workers before attending school. By 1918, new regulations and compulsory education to age fourteen made such extreme juvenile employment practices virtually impossible.

Family

Parents

Ancestors and children

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Four generations back to the right, the children to the left. The number beside a child counts the generations of descendants known after them.