A rate collector's notebook. The collectors of the Poor Rate (a local tax paid by everyone to support the poor) walked a convenient route round the parish marking in their notebooks when they had collected the amount due.
They did not have the convenience of a fountain pen or biro but would have used a quill pen and carried a bottle of ink.
These rate collection books are useful now for discovering when people arrived at or left a property.
Judith Etherton
Borough Archivist
Valence House Museum
Becontree Avenue
Dagenham
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