Charcoal burner's caravan and cabin in a wood

Charcoal burner's caravan and cabin in a wood in the Hythe region of Kent, England. The charcoal burners would spend the summer in the woods cutting wood and producing charcoal, living with their families in caravans or, more usually, in rough cabins constructed of wood and turf. Woodcut from The Saturday Magazine (London, 9 January 1836)

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