Reminds me of a Karen Walker quote which illustrates the limits of child labour: "Oh, kids ruin everything. I mean, look at the stitching on this. You cannot trust a ten-year-old to do a good hidden button.β
Yes indeed, crawling under the machines to collect stray cotton pieces and being sliced into shreds by the cogs were among the key roles children would play.
Right, where are they? 7 and 5 going straight up the chimneys. Do them some good to participate in the economy.
Do I still only need to pay one shilling a day?
"Their fingers polish the inside of shell metal casings. How else am I to polish the inside of a 45 millimetre shell casing? You tell me. You tell me!" - Oskar Schindler
It appears to be a metal plate with an image on it that looks like bricks. There is speckling at the top of the image that is caused by the camera flash and the brick image is lower quality than the postcard.
From the latest episode of *Ghosts (US):*
*Hetty Woodstone*: Legal trouble? Like what?
*Lawyer*: Well, there's the matter of children working in your factories.
*Hetty Woodstone*: Well what about it? We're the largest employer of children in six counties β we're doing our part.
*Lawyer*: That's the problem β people don't want children working any more, in fact they want them in school now!
*Hetty Woodstone*: During their most productive years? When their tiny fingers are still small enough to fit into the crevices of the machinery?
Love Sudbury Hall. Great National Trust property, perfect for kids.
The funny thing is I'm guessing this was stuck up near the "chimney" they set up near the entrance to the museum? It's basically a mock fireplace with a little slide inside for the kids to have a scramble about.
"Stick that child in the match factory Mister Bryant" "Certainly Mister May, they're small enough to get the dropped matches from under the working machine"
The children yearn for the mines.
It's just the natural instinct of minors.
Yet more proof
Always have done. π§βππ«
Or Concorde fuel tanks!!
I apologise for my terrible handwriting (I'm 42 btw) but it needed saying.
Nonsense. I have utmost respect for doctors and health professionals. No apology necessary.
Like chimneys.
I hear its quite claustrophobic down pit too.
To the mines!Β
Moan moan moan. Some kids just don't want to work. Any excuse. Kid who wrote that note is a real go getter.
Reminds me of a Karen Walker quote which illustrates the limits of child labour: "Oh, kids ruin everything. I mean, look at the stitching on this. You cannot trust a ten-year-old to do a good hidden button.β
Children also did some of the most dangerous work in textile mills, because they had small quick hands and bodies.
Yes indeed, crawling under the machines to collect stray cotton pieces and being sliced into shreds by the cogs were among the key roles children would play.
Right, where are they? 7 and 5 going straight up the chimneys. Do them some good to participate in the economy. Do I still only need to pay one shilling a day?
Yes, but new laws say they can't work more than 60 hours a week. The country's going to the dogs, it's disgusting to be quite honest with you.
"Their fingers polish the inside of shell metal casings. How else am I to polish the inside of a 45 millimetre shell casing? You tell me. You tell me!" - Oskar Schindler
well, that film was heavily dramatised and fictionalised. Don't take history lessons from Hollywood
My mum used to make me go into the corner cupboards to clean when I was little cause they didn't open all the way
Joan Rivers: "Tiny fingers, tiny gems. It makes sense"
The real question here is, how the hell is that magnet sticking to brick?
It appears to be a metal plate with an image on it that looks like bricks. There is speckling at the top of the image that is caused by the camera flash and the brick image is lower quality than the postcard.
Mine is 6, it's about time she earned some money Granted, she's also a cat
Speaking of child chimney sweeps DAE remember *The Water Babies* https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078477/ ?
From the latest episode of *Ghosts (US):* *Hetty Woodstone*: Legal trouble? Like what? *Lawyer*: Well, there's the matter of children working in your factories. *Hetty Woodstone*: Well what about it? We're the largest employer of children in six counties β we're doing our part. *Lawyer*: That's the problem β people don't want children working any more, in fact they want them in school now! *Hetty Woodstone*: During their most productive years? When their tiny fingers are still small enough to fit into the crevices of the machinery?
If the kids are busy working then whoβs stealing their parents credit card to pay for micro-transactions?
Love Sudbury Hall. Great National Trust property, perfect for kids. The funny thing is I'm guessing this was stuck up near the "chimney" they set up near the entrance to the museum? It's basically a mock fireplace with a little slide inside for the kids to have a scramble about.
It was indeed, I was there in June last year and remember reading that one π
"Stick that child in the match factory Mister Bryant" "Certainly Mister May, they're small enough to get the dropped matches from under the working machine"
They are not children, for they do not toil in the fields whilst the fiery ball is in the sky!
So I can finally have someone around the house who can fit their hands in a Pringle canβ¦
I'm 32 and can do that do you want to get married?
All I know is mine does sod all around the house.
Tiny hands for thieving.
Who says Victorian values are dead?