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During the Victorian Era Children worked as scavengers and etc. Scavengers were tiny children who crawled under the machinery to gather up loos pieces of cotton.

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There were also the "Mudlarks", children of very poor families, who scavenged bits of scrap metal from harbours at low tide, to sell for a few pence (at most probably) to scrap-merchants.

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