Wow! Those poor little tikes with their pipes and candlelit hats working as trappers, pulling heavy carts, and rarely seeing daylight. Thank goodness we now have child labor laws to protect them, although there are still places around the world where this is sadly not the case. Thanks for sharing. Jenny
We agree, you’re right that this horror still exists for many children around the world. It’s utterly heartbreaking to hear of their hard lives, when we feel so privileged to have been allowed to be children, to play and learn, with never an expectation of having to earn money. ❤️ ❤️🩹
Absolutely fascinating!!! If you ever get the chance try and visit some of the miners museums in South Wales - Afan Argoed was a good one. I was able to read some of the accident reports,,,,,The children were rarely named - infant aged 5 died in a rock fall etc,,,,Just infant....Sobering indeed. Thank you for this vlog,,,, as all your others!
Fascinating! Children today don’t know they’re born! A good day’s work teaches youngsters a thing or two about respect and value - something they would do well to understand! 😉
That's sobering. It is also sad to think of so many children denied a proper childhood because they were made to work for a living. Not any better here in the States, where children worked in the sweatshops and factories of the north, or the cotton fields of the south. Very sad.😢
Exactly so…this was at a time when kids were often just used for cheap labour. I’m sure their parents loved them, for the most part, but manual work wasn’t much better for anyone back then, kids or adults. Makes me appreciate the childhood I had and the social changes from which we all benefited. But even today there is child labour used around the world in terrible, dangerous and painful work. Thanks for watching and commenting Debba ❤️
Great vlog, fascinating is it. Wouldn’t happen to day plus we have no mines left. There is a museums in Wakefield that quiet interesting too. Hope you all well take care
Yes that's incredible ❤. Very sad. Quite amazing and almost impossible to believe. But like some of the other comments. It's true it still goes on around the world. There is a song by the Unthanks. Folk singers. It's a song about women working down the mines as you explain. Thank you for the history and your time .
I’m a huge history bath and this just made me so so sad… I actually don’t even live in the UK I live in Eastern Oregon USA on the Oregon trail… I built a house here, but I actually thought about living in a narrow boat, didn’t know how I make that work since I’m not a British citizen. So I opted to build a house and move away from Portland or so much destruction has happened to a calmer life. I love watching your travels. This is the first time I wrote anything on any of the Narrowboat adventures I have watched and I do watch quite a few actually… Holly, the Café boat. They now are living in a house, but keeping Holly, Ben and Emily, a couple other ones, but they’re not really posting as much and I totally get it because I think RUclips can just control you and I didn’t realize there was so much editing to be done how exhausting. I love Tilly as everyone else does, I have one dog right now CeCee Bloom, She lost her best friend, my short legged dog, Prince Harry October 31 of last year. It was very hard on her. Harry was the alpha the leader of the pack. I had gotten CeCee at the Humane Society in Portland and when I went to take her to Petsmart to get her toenails cut, there was hairy. He was part corgi part Papillion very smart. I also have four cats because I have Home down 22 cats! So the town I moved into, and you had taken a video of a deer well, this town has three things that are too many and not that I don’t like any of them because I do it’s just there’s a lot… ATVs, deer, and cats.! And it’s very sad because they don’t all survive. I’ve homed out for kittens in a little over a month. Anyway, I wrote a lot thank you so much you guys are doing so so much I mean I love the fact that you’re rallying for the small businesses, what’s going on in the UK, especially with the canals that can’t happen you guys all need to get together and fight all that that’s going on you can’t lose it people from back in our past Built this canal and there’s a lot more people and she said that her using it they never did. Even people from all over the world are coming to the UK just to tour the canals. Thank you for what you’re doing the Lord bless Hold you in his Eagles wings and shine his blessings all over you.❤
Hi Sam! Thank you so much for your beautiful comment - we truly do appreciate it and thank you for following our channel! We love Holly too and have enjoyed their story so far! Your move to build your own house away from the bustle and destruction of nature, peace and quiet is what we’d like to have done if we hadn’t chosen boat life - which, as you rightly say, is certainly under threat these days. CeeCee obviously mourns sweet Harry - as I’m sure you do - losing a pack member is very hard on us but it’s wonderful that Harry got adopted into your home and bonded with CeeCee! We do feel strongly about supporting small businesses - it’s getting harder as the giant tech retail world has destroyed so many, the way out of town malls did for the small town community shops in the USA (and here). Rents are high in the town centres and with all the traffic restrictions it’s hard for many businesses there. Yet we do see some succeeding, nestled in among the thrift stores and nail parlors - usually specialist stores like the hardware shop in our Chorley video - it’s wonderful to see them and to be able to help them survive and thrive! These are dark times for many people and it’s important to show some of the beauty of the creation - The scenery and the wildlife, for example. We all three send love and blessings to you and yours, kisses from Tilly to CeeCee 🐕 🥰
As my husband and I were watching and listening, we wondered how this wasn't referred to as slavery. Slavery of the very young, dare I say, 'white' children. No one is shouting out for reparations for these poor souls or their descendants. 😪 Hope you both and Tilly are in good health ~ Hugs Lacy, Mike & Hamish 🐾🤗💕
Hi Lacy, Mike and Hamish - I suppose the difference is that slaves are ‘owned’ whereas these were not. Either way, it’s hard to imagine being a parent and knowing you have no choice but to send your beloved children into such terrible harsh and hard labour, while children of the wealthy would have enjoyed games, toys and the safety of a warm, dry bed. Reading these accounts is actually quite upsetting. That kind of exploitation definitely still goes on around the world and business owners still get very rich off it. 💔
@@NarrowboatLiberty At that time, the government and business owners did 'own' them. They had the power of life or death over them. 💔 Nothing much has changed in the world.
Fascinating look back on the terrible conditions experienced by all, thank you.
Thanks Andrew. What hard times they were for poor people - of every age. ❤️
Wow! Those poor little tikes with their pipes and candlelit hats working as trappers, pulling heavy carts, and rarely seeing daylight. Thank goodness we now have child labor laws to protect them, although there are still places around the world where this is sadly not the case. Thanks for sharing. Jenny
We agree, you’re right that this horror still exists for many children around the world. It’s utterly heartbreaking to hear of their hard lives, when we feel so privileged to have been allowed to be children, to play and learn, with never an expectation of having to earn money. ❤️ ❤️🩹
@@NarrowboatLiberty I agree, we are privileged to have laws that allow children to play.
Very interesting can't wait for the next one
Thanks very much Terry 🥰
Absolutely fascinating!!! If you ever get the chance try and visit some of the miners museums in South Wales - Afan Argoed was a good one. I was able to read some of the accident reports,,,,,The children were rarely named - infant aged 5 died in a rock fall etc,,,,Just infant....Sobering indeed. Thank you for this vlog,,,, as all your others!
Thanks Ian - we’ll be sure to check out Afan Argoed if we get anywhere near to it!
Fascinating!
Children today don’t know they’re born! A good day’s work teaches youngsters a thing or two about respect and value - something they would do well to understand! 😉
😂 thanks Martin ❤️
Oure history our heratige. Like it or not we have to accept it and as time goes by we have to change it, and yes we have. Hart warming thank you.
Agreed, Trevor! Thanks very much ❤️
Interesting vlog guys x
Hiya mate! Thanks 🥰
That's sobering. It is also sad to think of so many children denied a proper childhood because they were made to work for a living. Not any better here in the States, where children worked in the sweatshops and factories of the north, or the cotton fields of the south. Very sad.😢
Exactly so…this was at a time when kids were often just used for cheap labour. I’m sure their parents loved them, for the most part, but manual work wasn’t much better for anyone back then, kids or adults. Makes me appreciate the childhood I had and the social changes from which we all benefited. But even today there is child labour used around the world in terrible, dangerous and painful work. Thanks for watching and commenting Debba ❤️
Great vlog, fascinating is it. Wouldn’t happen to day plus we have no mines left. There is a museums in Wakefield that quiet interesting too. Hope you all well take care
Thanks Caroline ❤️
Yes that's incredible ❤. Very sad. Quite amazing and almost impossible to believe. But like some of the other comments. It's true it still goes on around the world.
There is a song by the Unthanks. Folk singers. It's a song about women working down the mines as you explain.
Thank you for the history and your time .
Thanks for that, Katie ❤️ ❤️
I’m a huge history bath and this just made me so so sad… I actually don’t even live in the UK I live in Eastern Oregon USA on the Oregon trail… I built a house here, but I actually thought about living in a narrow boat, didn’t know how I make that work since I’m not a British citizen. So I opted to build a house and move away from Portland or so much destruction has happened to a calmer life. I love watching your travels. This is the first time I wrote anything on any of the Narrowboat adventures I have watched and I do watch quite a few actually… Holly, the Café boat. They now are living in a house, but keeping Holly, Ben and Emily, a couple other ones, but they’re not really posting as much and I totally get it because I think RUclips can just control you and I didn’t realize there was so much editing to be done how exhausting. I love Tilly as everyone else does, I have one dog right now CeCee Bloom, She lost her best friend, my short legged dog, Prince Harry October 31 of last year. It was very hard on her. Harry was the alpha the leader of the pack. I had gotten CeCee at the Humane Society in Portland and when I went to take her to Petsmart to get her toenails cut, there was hairy. He was part corgi part Papillion very smart. I also have four cats because I have Home down 22 cats! So the town I moved into, and you had taken a video of a deer well, this town has three things that are too many and not that I don’t like any of them because I do it’s just there’s a lot… ATVs, deer, and cats.! And it’s very sad because they don’t all survive. I’ve homed out for kittens in a little over a month. Anyway, I wrote a lot thank you so much you guys are doing so so much I mean I love the fact that you’re rallying for the small businesses, what’s going on in the UK, especially with the canals that can’t happen you guys all need to get together and fight all that that’s going on you can’t lose it people from back in our past Built this canal and there’s a lot more people and she said that her using it they never did. Even people from all over the world are coming to the UK just to tour the canals. Thank you for what you’re doing the Lord bless Hold you in his Eagles wings and shine his blessings all over you.❤
Hi Sam! Thank you so much for your beautiful comment - we truly do appreciate it and thank you for following our channel! We love Holly too and have enjoyed their story so far! Your move to build your own house away from the bustle and destruction of nature, peace and quiet is what we’d like to have done if we hadn’t chosen boat life - which, as you rightly say, is certainly under threat these days. CeeCee obviously mourns sweet Harry - as I’m sure you do - losing a pack member is very hard on us but it’s wonderful that Harry got adopted into your home and bonded with CeeCee! We do feel strongly about supporting small businesses - it’s getting harder as the giant tech retail world has destroyed so many, the way out of town malls did for the small town community shops in the USA (and here). Rents are high in the town centres and with all the traffic restrictions it’s hard for many businesses there. Yet we do see some succeeding, nestled in among the thrift stores and nail parlors - usually specialist stores like the hardware shop in our Chorley video - it’s wonderful to see them and to be able to help them survive and thrive! These are dark times for many people and it’s important to show some of the beauty of the creation - The scenery and the wildlife, for example. We all three send love and blessings to you and yours, kisses from Tilly to CeeCee 🐕 🥰
So sorry about the spelling it doesn’t always come out when you’re talking into the phone and I’m a horrible proofreader… Blessings
@@SamnJD 😂 no worries, your meaning was perfectly clear to us! Have a great weekend.
Hi guys - we only realised it was you after we’d passed. Hope you’re well ❤
😂 it was lovely seeing you both in real life! Pity we didn’t have a chance to meet properly - maybe next time? Cheers 🍻 Rob and Carol 😘
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@@NarrowboatLiberty my grandfather and my uncle were miners
As my husband and I were watching and listening, we wondered how this wasn't referred to as slavery. Slavery of the very young, dare I say, 'white' children. No one is shouting out for reparations for these poor souls or their descendants. 😪
Hope you both and Tilly are in good health ~ Hugs Lacy, Mike & Hamish 🐾🤗💕
Hi Lacy, Mike and Hamish - I suppose the difference is that slaves are ‘owned’ whereas these were not. Either way, it’s hard to imagine being a parent and knowing you have no choice but to send your beloved children into such terrible harsh and hard labour, while children of the wealthy would have enjoyed games, toys and the safety of a warm, dry bed. Reading these accounts is actually quite upsetting. That kind of exploitation definitely still goes on around the world and business owners still get very rich off it. 💔
@@NarrowboatLiberty At that time, the government and business owners did 'own' them. They had the power of life or death over them. 💔
Nothing much has changed in the world.