Report from The Birmingham Post

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Date:1859

Description:John Daintree was prosecuted in Erdington Magistrates Court for cruelty towards a 13 year old climbing boy called John Salisbury. John had to strip naked to get into a narrow chimney and then got stuck. Daintree threatened to poke him down from the top of the chimney with a prop, and then to set fire to straw underneath him.

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Work, Pay and Conditions Rural landscape Photographers Children and Childhood Birmingham 1801-1900 (19th century)

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