# @wild_history_uk on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ-DaUDoIp7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67082642-wild-history-uk-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/05748e5ef2.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-24T13:03:22.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Wild History Shocking Stories From the Past (@wild_history_uk) — https://gondola.cc/wild_history_uk

## Caption

He was eleven, sent up a chimney at a Cambridge asylum. Fifteen minutes later he was stuck fast.

By 1875, sending children up chimneys had been illegal for years — but no one enforced it. When George Brewster died, his master was jailed and Lord Shaftesbury forced a new law: every sweep licensed by police. George was the last climbing boy to die in England.

#ForgottenHistory #BritishHistory #SocialHistory

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## Tags

socialhistory, forgottenhistory, britishhistory

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