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Started by: MarieM (5563)
I've been to the Museum of Science and Industry today at Deansgate and every afternoon at 3.00p.m. they have a demo in a cotton mill they have set up with small machines. It was heartbreaking seeing how our Irish ancestors suffered. They had five year old children cleaning the machines while they were still running. There were numerous injuries. There were no schools then. These children who cleaned were called scavengers. I had a scavenger on my family tree, so now I know what it was.
Replied: 17th Oct 2013 at 19:43