In the village of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, a blue plaque marks where 11-year-old George Brewster became the last recorded child to die in chimney sweeping—86 years after Blake's "Chimney Sweeper". George suffocated in a chimney at Fulbourn Hospital's asylum wing, where society locked away the "insane" in buildings still cleaned by child slaves. This prosperous Cambridge village, just miles from one of England's great universities where scholars debated child welfare reforms, continued using climbing boys despite decades of legislation. The geography tells the whole story of Victorian hypocrisy: educated Cambridge discussing childhood protection while rural Fulbourn still stuffed orphan boys up chimneys. George's master claimed the boy volunteered to climb, but the coroner found he'd been forced up the flue and abandoned when stuck. His death finally forced the 1875 Chimney Sweepers Act that actually ended the practice—nearly a century after Blake first wrote about these "little victims."
Phot found at: https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/chimney-sweep...