Over 200 years ago, Ossett was covered in fields and farmland, but one day out of the blue, mills were created to make shoddy....
Working conditions in the mills were extremely poor. However, even though machines were harmful, and many people suffered from getting stuck, hundreds of people worked there. Because the mills were deafeningly loud, the worker's sharp hearing was damaged, and shockingly, children were forced to clamber into dangerous machines to fix them. Moreover, Shoddy fever was extremely common in the mills as many people found it very had to breath at times.