Edinburgh United Industrial School; Carpenters and Turn

Category

Library Item

Item no

21898

Title

Edinburgh United Industrial School; Carpenters and Turners at work

Description

A group of small boys work at wooden benches in the United Industrial School of Edinburgh. They are using wood working tools. A man with a cap on stands at one of the benches using a wood turning wheel which he is pumping with his foot. Two boys watch him intently. In the background a man with a top hat on surveys the scene. The workshop seems dark and is dimly lit.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1851

Size

12 x 17.2 cm

Type

Lithograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The Edinburgh United Industrial School was founded in Blackfriar's Wynd, Edinburgh in 1847. It's purpose was to help homeless and neglected children by feeding them and teaching them a trade. The "United" Industrial School was unique in offering unsectarian education i.e. it took in Protestant and Catholic Children who were taught together for all subjects except religion. The boys were taught trades such as carpentry, tailoring, brush making and shoemaking whilst the girls learnt washing, cooking, knitting and household work.

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