Resource 2: Victorian children at work and at home

Images of children at work and at home during the Victorian era.

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Child coal miners moving coal back from the coal face - c 1866.
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Children working in a Victorian textile factory. One job was to clear strands of cotton from under the looms while the machinery remained in operation.
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The image shows a street in the centre of Glasgow in the 1870s.
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The image shows slums in south London in 1905, at the end of the Victorian era.
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The image shows the interior of a typical poorer Victorian family home.