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Child labour - ages for working in mines
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Unknown | Report | 5 Apr 2006 15:26 |
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Original thread seems to have gone, but for anyone who is curious, found by googling that |
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Unknown | Report | 5 Apr 2006 15:26 |
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The Mines Act was passed by the Government in 1842 forbidding the employment of women and girls and all boys under the age of teen down mines. Later it became illegal for a boy under 12 to work down a mine. |
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Vicky | Report | 5 Apr 2006 16:39 |
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i've lots of 14 year olds working in the mines - 1851 onwards. Horrific conditions too, for most of them. There are plenty of stories on the web about what mining was really like then. |
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Deborah | Report | 5 Apr 2006 17:57 |
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i had relations working at clifton hall colliery pendlebury when the mining disaster took place in 1885. There were alot of young boys killed then as young as 13 it seems such a waste , some were even classed as boy so maybe they could have been younger again |
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