Property: 5 Worcester Road ln year: 1891

Occupant: Bertha Brookes (widow) aged:  34  Born:  Feckenham

Trade: Needle Sticker –

Notes: Bertha had 1 working daughter + 5 younger children at home. Not sure it she is Brookes or Brooks as both on different census. On the 1881 census she lived with her husband Joseph in Astwood Bank. On the 1901 census Bertha lived at 90 Lodge Road, Upper Ipsley. (On earlier census Worcester Road was known as Vine Street) Bertha died in 1904.

Source: JC – Census