What was it like to be a chimney sweep?

Answer 1

It was only in the last two hundred years that the chimney has grown large enough to hold a man, generous rise to the image of the chimney sweep as it developed in the time of the Industrial Revolution. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Western Europe, was when the roof tops had the room to conveniently get on top off and down of the chimney. With the better town population, the number of houses with chimneys grew quickly and the job of chimney sweep became much more needed. It was also one of the more usually difficult, dangerous, and low-paying jobs of the time period, and as a result has been aimed at in our day as bases of story line for pantomimes.