Chimney sweep

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A Chimney Sweep and his tiny apprentice

Chimney Sweeps - unknown many children were used for this terrible job, with sometimes disastrous results

Victorian Chimney Sweep

The life of an apprentice chimney sweep in England in the 1600s–1800s was dangerous and, too often, very short. Here is a detailed description of these children's working lives.

A new book shows the terrible price paid by the labourers who serviced machines, pushed coal carts and turned the wheels that drove the Industrial Revolution.

Old Photos of Whitby, Yorkshire - browse nostalgic, historic local photos online

Illustrators Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone.

Stefan Moses - Chimney Sweeps 1962