Boy pushing coal wagon in mine at Halifax, Yorkshire
A boy with a belt and chain around his waist pushes a heavy coal truck along a low underground passage in a mine at Halifax, Yorkshire. An official investigation in 1842 revealed that children as young as seven were being apprenticed to work, in some cases placed there by workhouses
Picture No
10424749
Media ID
47524564
Size
5085px x 2071px
(3.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed engraving in parliamentary report on children working in mines
Date
circa 1842
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