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Part 1: Brookbottom Colliery, Heanor, Derbyshire, 1842

Extract from Sub Commissioner's report, 1842 on the conditions of children and young people employed in the collieries.

"His name is Godfrey Fletcher
Eleven years old
Worked these pits for nearly three years
Does not know the alphabet
Cannot read in the least"

The pit shall keep him body and soul
But better that than going to school
Or ploughing the field
Hot as any fire and brimstone Methodist's sermon down here
In the awesome stillness
Of the deep black

A Boy in Darkness

The seam they work is more than a yard
The headway here is nearly four feet
...

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