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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 Mail26d
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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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Chimney sweep who died aged 11 becomes youngest person honoured with blue plaque
George Brewster, whose 1875 death at work led to child labour reforms, joins Cambridge recipients Darwin, Cromwell and Turing A Victorian chimney sweep has ... he was 12 years old, and fought ...