Because mechanisation in the cotton and woollen industries meant that little skill or physical strength was required to operate the machines, employers began to recruit women and children in their mills.
Small children could also carry out tasks beneath and within the machinery which grown adults could not manage.
The Calendar of Events gives many examples of accidents involving children working in the mills and mines of the district.
See Child workers at I. & I. Calvert's mills
This Foldout collects some entries relating to child labour
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