Description: A domestic servant scrubs steps, in what then would have been an 'upper-middle class' area of Nottingham. Compare this to NTGM000055. Here, houses have been built in the background which are not seen in the earlier picture. In Victorian times, as in earlier centuries, the bulk of waged work for women appears to have been found in trades associated with female skills, particularly where these were also casual and low paid. Domestic service of all kinds was the single largest employer of women. In the census of 1851, female domestic workers made up 40 per cent of female occupations in provincial cities and 50 per cent in London. By World War 1, the numbers of women working 'In Service' had fallen dramatically, due to changes within the social structure and wider opportunities in other areas of employment.