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Vile Victorian Childhood
For the poor Victorian child there was no childhood just hard and dangerous work without any protection services. They went down the mines; because they were small and could manoeuvre in tight spaces, up chimneys working in factories and laundry. They worked making matches, pottery and scared birds from the fields also as domestic servants. Many were forced outside the law as pick pockets and sailed close to the wind as rat catchers and street sellers
How would you manage living on the street
How would you manage living on the street
£5 per child I adult free
Bourne Hall Museum Kids Club, Spring Street, Ewell, Surrey KT17 1UF
Sat 7 Mar 2015
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