Apprentice House blue plaque

This blue commemorative plaque records: Apprentice House Built c1802 The original use of this building, to house pauper ‘apprentices’, faded from local memory as the survivors died off in the late 1800s. – Children as young as eight were literally carted from city workhouses to perform menial work in Ramsbottom Mill near here. Apprentice houses also existed in Nuttall and Summerseat. After 1833, when the mill owners were required to educate these children, they became uneconomic. This building was converted into houses in the late 1830s. – Descendants of the children are still in the town. Recorded plaque organisation: Ramsbottom Heritage Society.