Dark As A Derbyshire Coal Mine.

Subscribe to my you tube channel for 280+ more coal mine tributes and counting. Most of the children employed in the Derbyshire pits from an early age suffered physically, long hours virtually deprived them of daylight, and insufficient sleep resulted in dullness and stunted growth. Most of these children arrived home at the end of a days work with aching limbs and in need of rest.In similar vein, in his work on the Derbyshire miners, Williams has
suggested: 'Many of these unfortunate children started work at the age of five or six.
Few began work in the pits at a later age than eight’.47 Computer-aided analysis of
the starting ages of the 276 subjects observed in the C.E.C. evidence from
Derbyshire, however, provides a mean age at commencement of 8.78 years.
According to the evidence, therefore, most children working in the Derbyshire mines
commenced work after the age of eight.