£100 a day
2p
3
half a crown
£9000
80k
In Victorian times, children as young as 6 years old could be employed in factories and mines. The legal working age was later raised to 10 years old. However, many children started working at a much younger age due to poverty and lack of regulations.
Not very much!
Not very much!
they got paid 2 pounds fifty
Will depend on the mine, but in general, underground coal mines may be very wet. One of the first uses of early steam engines was operating mine pumps to control water levels.
There are various types of mines in action today besides gold mines, such as coal mines, copper mines, iron ore mines, and diamond mines. Each type of mine is dedicated to extracting different minerals or resources from the earth.
Coal miners in the Victorian era were paid low wages, typically earning around 15-25 shillings per week. The work was extremely dangerous and the conditions were harsh, leading to widespread poverty among coal miners and their families.