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On Sunday, 22 February 2015 19:31:20 UTC, Mr Pounder wrote:
There was a time when apprentices had to pay for the privilege of being
an
apprentice and learning a useful skill.
When would this be and for which apprenticeship?
I was an indentured apprentice heating and ventilation engineer in 1966. I
was a slave and got paid peanuts.

Probably up until the early 20th Century.

An Apprenticeship Indenture is a legal document binding a child (usually
around the age of 12 or 13 but sometimes as young as 7) to a master or
mistress for seven or more years. A sum of money (premium or consideration)
was usually paid to the master, and in exchange he (or more rarely, she)
agreed to train the child in their trade or profession, and to supply them
with appropriate food, clothing and lodging for the duration of the
apprenticeship. An indenture needed the signature of a Justice of the Peace
in order to become legally enforceable.

I still have the copy of my Indentures.
Would you really like me to .............. (scanner is ****ed) photograph
it, upload to Dropbox and send here???!!!!!