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Chimney sweep, 11, becomes youngest to be honoured with blue plaque
A chimney sweep whose tragic death at the age of 11 inspired reform has become the youngest person to be honoured with a Cambridge blue plaque. George Brewster died in 1875 after tragically being ...
Daily Mail25d
Chimney sweep, 11, whose tragic death sparked outrage and inspired law change becomes youngest person to be honoured with blue plaque 150 years later
A chimney sweep whose tragic death at the age of 11 inspired reform has become the youngest person to be honoured with a Cambridge blue plaque. George Brewster died in 1875 after tragically being ...
The Financial Times15d
Chimney sweeps and mouse men should stigmatise the rest of us
As we all do, if you think of it in primeval terms. More ancient than the Victorian chimney sweep, we can’t get away from the stuff that goes deep: the desire for fire, the fight against the ...
AOL25d
Plaque for chimney sweep, 11, whose death changed law
George Brewster, 11, became trapped in a chimney of a former Victorian pauper asylum in Fulbourn ... a seemingly insignificant 11-year-old boy, who died not knowing that he changed the lives ...
BBC2y
History KS2: The Victorians
Topics include: life as a Victorian chimney-sweep, Victorian servants, Victorian railways, famous Victorians, Victorian inventions, Queen Victoria, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Victorian children.
The Daily Telegraph25d
Chimney sweep who died aged 11 becomes youngest person honoured with blue plaque
A Victorian chimney sweep has become the youngest person to ... Sidney joined up when he was 12 years old, and fought at the Somme when he was 13.