The start of the Sunday School can be traced back to 1780, when Mr. Robert Raikes began a Sunday School movement in Gloucester for the children of the Factories.
The Industrial Revolution which broke out in Great Britain in 1750, saw major changes in the areas of textiles, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation and mining. This
gave way for the rise of a number of factories in and around Great Britain. Manual labour and animal based working yielded to machines that ran on steam and coal.