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Images by Theme: Children at Work

A selection of images showing children at work Check out our Teaching Activity What was life like for Victorian children? Did it get any better?

Servant girl, Grandborough, Warwickshire

The Blowing Stone, Kingston Lisle, Oxfordshire

The Field Offices, Breams Buildings, City of London

Workers at Osram Glass Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear

Children packing tea at Butlers Wharf, London

Frank Cooper's Works, Victoria Buildings, Park End Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Gardener, Hellidon Grange, Northamptonshire

Golding and Adams, High Street, Byfield, Northamptonshire

Hartley Memorial, Earsdon, Tyne and Wear

Harvesting at Haddenham, Buckinghamshire

Haystore, Byfield, Northamptonshire

Headington Domestic Training School, Headington, Oxford, Oxfordshire

Huskar Pit Disaster Memorial, Silkstone, South Yorkshire

J Plater's Cart, Van and Carriage Works, Haddenham, Buckinghamshire

John H Chandler Family Butcher, Southam Street, Kineton, Warwickshire

Odeon Cinema, Hounslow, Greater London

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