Children at Work in the Industry Children as young as four years old, worked in very dangerous factories. As children grew older, they did many different jobs in factories, which were often very hard and dangerous. If they didn't do their work very well they were beaten. Children at work in the countryside In Victorian times lots of people still lived in the countryside, so children still had to work there. In Spring they had …showed first 75 words of 354 total…

…showed last 75 words of 354 total…- which was quite small). They let us take photographs so we could remember others and made it possible for us to see in the dark with the electric light bulb. They gave us the bank holiday so we could see all the family. They let us have anaesthetics so that we did not feel the pain of operations and antiseptics to kill the bad germs Without their contribution, life would be a lot different.