First Steam Train
This photograph which was built by Peter Cooper in 1830. I was the first working carrier steam engine train which was called the Tom Thumb.
Child Labour
This photograph was taken around the end of the Industrial revolution 1900. It shows 2 young boys working on a very large machine that is in the spinning factory so they are spinning cotton. The machine looks very big and dangerous to these 2 boys who only look around the age of 6-7. This shows how bad child labour is and to especially young kids during the Industrial Revolution. This image also shows that they are two small to stand up and work the machine so they have to climb up the spinning machine.
Coal mining
This photograph shows about 18 young boys that have just come out of working in the coal mines. They look very miserable and very dirty. They also look very dirty and miserable. These children worked around 14 hours a day with only 1 or 2 small breaks. But these young children should of been in school simply just learning there ABC's but they were working the same about of hours as Adults.
Factories
This photograph is of a very large spinning factory. With many people working in it. Many different aged people there is adults mainly women but then there is many young children of many ages both girls and boys and there is also teenagers also both girls and boys. All working in a very big and not so clean looking factory for many hours a day with hardly any breaks.
Drawing of Factory
This is a drawing of one of the first big factories in England during the Industrial Revolution. It shows you how big they were and how big they are compared to the houses near it which was the normal sized houses or work but once the factories come they were the biggest.
Sketch of spinning factory
This is also another picture of s spinning factory but it is a sketch and it shows mainly women and young girl teenagers, and kids. The machines are massive and are very big compared to the little girl in the front bending over to get more cotton.
Textile Industry
This artwork as said bellow is a textile factory with a whole family boys and girls working hard in the textile industry during the Industrial Revolution during the year of 1840.
Child pulling coal
As it says below this is a young child who is in a coal mine and is crawling through a very small tunnel underground. With a basket of coal which is bigger then him tied to his waist. He is pulling this heavy bucket of coal while bending over which would of been really hard and especially when he doesn't have much room.
First Railway Opening
This sketch as it also says below is of the first railway opening in 1825 during the Industrial Revolution, It shows also many fancy dressed men and women on and watching the steam powered train. Because many people traveled far and wide to see the first railway because it was a major part of the Industrial Revolution because it now meant where ever a railway is made a train can travel so that meant very far and quick.
Interviews from people that worked as Child Labourers
"The smallest child in the factories were scavengers……they go under the machine, while it is going……….it is very dangerous when they first come, but they become used to it."Charles Aberdeen worked in a Manchester cotton factory, written in 1832.
"Two children I know got employment in a factory when they were five years old………….the spinning men or women employ children if they can get a child to do their business……..the child is paid one shilling or one shilling and six pence, and they will take that (five year old) child before they take an older one who will cost more." George Gould, a Manchester merchant, written in 1816.
"In the evening I walked to Cromford and saw the children coming from their work. These children had been at work from 6 o’clock in the morning and it was now 7 o’clock in the evening."
Joseph Farington, 22nd August 1801 (diary entry)
"I began work at the mill in Bradford when I was nine years old……we began at six in the morning and worked until nine at night. When business was brisk, we began at five and worked until ten in the evening."
Hannah Brown, interviewed in 1832.
"We went to the mill at five in the morning. We worked until dinner time and then to nine or ten at night; on Saturday it could be till eleven and often till twelve at night. We were sent to clean the machinery on the Sunday." Man interviewed in 1849 who had worked in a mill as a child.
"Two children I know got employment in a factory when they were five years old………….the spinning men or women employ children if they can get a child to do their business……..the child is paid one shilling or one shilling and six pence, and they will take that (five year old) child before they take an older one who will cost more." George Gould, a Manchester merchant, written in 1816.
"In the evening I walked to Cromford and saw the children coming from their work. These children had been at work from 6 o’clock in the morning and it was now 7 o’clock in the evening."
Joseph Farington, 22nd August 1801 (diary entry)
"I began work at the mill in Bradford when I was nine years old……we began at six in the morning and worked until nine at night. When business was brisk, we began at five and worked until ten in the evening."
Hannah Brown, interviewed in 1832.
"We went to the mill at five in the morning. We worked until dinner time and then to nine or ten at night; on Saturday it could be till eleven and often till twelve at night. We were sent to clean the machinery on the Sunday." Man interviewed in 1849 who had worked in a mill as a child.