Boy pushing coal wagon in mine at Halifax, Yorkshire
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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
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© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
1840s 1842 Apprentice Apprenticeship Belt Chain Coal Conditions Halifax Harness Heavy Investigation L Aw Mine Mines Mining Official Passage Poor Poverty Pushing Truck Under Ground Waist Workhouse Workhouses
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