Boy dragging coal wagon with harness and chain in mine
A boy with a harness and chain between his legs drags 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 mines, in some cases placed there by workhouses
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Boy dragging coal wagon with harness and chain in mine
A boy with a harness and chain between his legs drags 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 mines, in some cases placed there by workhouses
© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Media ID 4470413
1840s 1842 Apprentice Apprenticeship Chain Coal Conditions Dragging Halifax Harness Heavy Housing Investigation L Aw Legs Mine Mines Mining Official Passage Poor Poverty Pulling Truck Under Ground Workhouse Workhouses
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