Surface Workers Refining Tin St Ives Consols

MIN 8.085.tif

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)

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

Geolocation