Part 3 of Nunney Scarecrows: Child Labour and Education in Nunney, Somerset. #OnePlaceEducation 🗃️
Families in Nunney in the 19th century had a choice of sending their children to work in the factories in Frome - and staying there overnight for 6 days a week - or working in the fields. 🧵 1/~
Families in Nunney in the 19th century had a choice of sending their children to work in the factories in Frome - and staying there overnight for 6 days a week - or working in the fields. 🧵 1/~
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children were employed making pillow-lace (hand-made lace) in Oxfordshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Devonshire. Children as young as five years old worked in lace 'schools', which were really workshops. 2/~
Government taxed foreign gloves. 3/~
Lives with grandmother. When older would like to go to service.” 5/~
hours per day had been passed as early as 1802 and 1819. These acts turned out to be ineffective. 7/~