Framework Knitters Workshop.
23.6.2023.
The cramped conditions of a Victorian Framework Knitters workshop.
The workers worked a fourteen hour day in cramped noisy and dangerous conditions. Pay was so poor it led to the Luddite rebellion of 1811.
The movement began in Arnold (a suburb of Nottingham) a spread rapidly over the next two years.
The Luddites in Nottingham destroyed frames belonging to the 'Master Hosiers'
The Government of the day responded by sending in troops to protect the workshops and a Bill in parliament was proposed to make the breaking of frames punishable by death!
Framework Knitters Museum - Ruddington.
Framework Knitters Workshop.
23.6.2023.
The cramped conditions of a Victorian Framework Knitters workshop.
The workers worked a fourteen hour day in cramped noisy and dangerous conditions. Pay was so poor it led to the Luddite rebellion of 1811.
The movement began in Arnold (a suburb of Nottingham) a spread rapidly over the next two years.
The Luddites in Nottingham destroyed frames belonging to the 'Master Hosiers'
The Government of the day responded by sending in troops to protect the workshops and a Bill in parliament was proposed to make the breaking of frames punishable by death!
Framework Knitters Museum - Ruddington.