The work was incredibly dangerous and highlights how widespread child labor was during Britain's industrial age. Chimney sweeps were often orphans or came from impoverished backgrounds.

A blue plaque to commemorate a Victorian child chimney sweep has been unveiled at the place of his death. George Brewster, 11 ...

The first blue plaque to commemorate the life of a child will be unveiled at the house where he died. George Brewster, 11, became trapped in a chimney of a former Victorian pauper asylum in ...

Not only frozen in the public imagination as a Dickens-y grimy child, the chimney sweeps of Brighton and Hove now suffer a greater practical indignity: being asked to park their vans several ...

The death of a child chimney sweep in Fulbourn prompted a change in the law banning "climbing boys" A blue plaque to commemorate a Victorian child chimney sweep has been unveiled at the place of ...