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Double Chinn: Childhood lost to dirty work.

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From: Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
Date: 20000708
Author:Chinn, Carl

A WHILE ago, Marjorie Dugard wrote to me about her grandfather, Charles Stych. Born in the early 1870s, Charlie had been a climbing boy - one of the lads who was sent wriggling up narrow and frightening chimneys to clean them.

Such a dangerous practice was outlawed, but it still went on even after the writer Charles Kingsley had stirred the nation's conscience with his book, The Water Babies.

Written in 1863 for children, actually it had carried a powerful social message about the treatment of the climbing boys and how their lives were threatened by their dirty and ...

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