Arrive 7.15am and chop the wood, fetch the coal, and light the fires.
Fetch deeds baskets containing the very heavy ledgers from the ‘strong-room’ (accessed across an outside yard that became a watercourse in wet weather).
Review ledgers as required at sloping wall desks while sitting on very ‘Dickens-like’ high leather-topped square stools.
Write using their feathers, ink and parchment paper, and deliver documents by hand.
Purchase a cigar for Mr Russell at 5.45pm then head home.
A Jackson Russell lawyer in 2021…
Arrive 8.30am and make a coffee.
Turn on the computer.
Review documents at their ergonomically-designed workstations.
Type, email, read, phone and send information using their computers and mobile phones.
On Fridays share a drink with colleagues and head home around 5.30pm.