Scrubbing clothes by hand, pegging your washing out in the street – take a look back at how Sheffield's household jobs have changed in the last century

Pictures from the Sheffield City Archive’s Picture Sheffield library paint a picture of how life was from 1910 all the way up to the 1950s.

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