Occupation
| Gramps ID | E2326 |
| Date | 24/12/1884 |
| Place | Hope Foundry, Burnley Wood, Burnley, Lancashire |
| Description | Fined on Christmas Eve with co-proprietor Van Guelder (sic) for employing three young workers without registration. DRA: Interesting do... child, young person, meal hour. Three days in December. Four cases involving eleven kids. 10s for employing a kid without cert or registration - £1 for failing to report a death. And look at the costs! I'd like to bet that there weren't as many cases in the whole of last year, in the whole country (or decade even). Assuming there are still rules about that sort of thing. No sign of a Hope Foundry on the OS 25" in Burnley Wood. But it might not have been very big. Every town (with a canal, river navigation, or railway) had one. Must have been an interesting place in those days. Filthy and smelly too. |
Source References
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HM Factory Inspectorate: Factories and Workshops. Annual Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops
[S0265]
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- Date: 1886
- Page: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2eglAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA65
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