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13 years ago
My name is Susan my Motherinlaw is Mary Varah who lived on saltom beach and I am looking for any one who has any pictures of the house and mine on saltom beach
mistericeman
13 years ago
That makes some fascinating reading Ian

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Roy Morton
13 years ago
A really interesting link which has thrown up a question for me.
Given that Parliament banned the employment of women and children underground in 1842, was the same act made law countrywide? or did the Cornish Stannary Parliament allow the practice of employing children to continue independantly of Westminster?
The folowing photo was taken in 1893 at Dolcoath Mine Camborne.

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Makes you wonder...... :blink:
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Redwinch
13 years ago
Roy, was it possibly because, as I'm sure you know, Cornwall didn't consider itself to be part of England, who was there to see what went on in the more remote districts !!
Still supporting Rampgill. last time I looked
pedrgogh
13 years ago
Where are the children?
The three young lads look like they are 14 and there fore they would be of a working age.
My Grandfather started work in a coal mine in North Wales at the age of 13 in around 1876.
Buckhill
13 years ago
There's one photo in the Saltom Archive album showing the cottages which used to lie NE of the shaft.

The 1842 Act only prevented the underground employment of females and boys aged under ten. There was another Act in 1860 which controlled the employment of boys under twelve and in 1900 a further Act raised the underground age to 13. The CMA of 1911 raised it to 14 but exempted boys already employed so, and in 1954 the minimum age under M & Q became 16, except for trainees. School leavers often did their basic u/g training at 15 then had to work on the surface until reaching 16.
Redwinch
13 years ago
Strange how the equality act gave the women the RIGHT to work underground again, dont suppose many wanted to !!
Still supporting Rampgill. last time I looked
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