Title
Surface Workers Refining Tin St Ives Consols
Subject
Surface
Anno MWorkWC IBP
Description
St Ives Consols showing children at work.
Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting, rising to 3d or 4d per day, according to their ability.
See Parliamentary Papers (1842) XVI Report or Chldren's Employment Commission, and 1864 Enquiry into all mines in Britain (not coal) and other official records.
(Two copies of photo)
Children were often employed on refining stages, sometimes working in water with bare feet. Their ages ranged from about seven or eight to 12 or 13. Their pay would have been from 1d to 2d on starting, rising to 3d or 4d per day, according to their ability.
See Parliamentary Papers (1842) XVI Report or Chldren's Employment Commission, and 1864 Enquiry into all mines in Britain (not coal) and other official records.
(Two copies of photo)
Publisher
Morrab Library
Date
1870
Rights
Morrab Library
Format
Print
Identifier
MIN 8.085
Coverage
St Ives
Original Format
photo
Business Name
St Ives Consols
Period Costume
N
Individual Names
St Ives Consols