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  • Life in the Workhouse

    According to my local paper an old local lady is in the process of writing a book about her experience of life in the workhouse.
    She was placed there as a toddler with her six siblings who were all abandoned by their parents and then split up.

    Can't wait to read the book when it's published.

    Here's the article:


    Tough life in the workhouse - News - Burton Mail

  • #2
    When we first moved to this town, at the end of the road as a geriatric hospital - I didnt know its history at the time,but it was once the workhouse.

    old folks dreaded being admitted. I guess some of them had vivid memories too
    Jess

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    • #3
      I would love to read this but can't get the page to load!
      Alison

      Researching:
      CAVE, CUCKOW/COSHOW, DAKIN, GILBERT, GINN, HUXLEY, LEATT, LETTEN, PATTERSON, PERRY, PORTER, SOMMERVILLE, WEEDON, WHITING
      http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=1025
      http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=2650


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      • #4
        Allie

        The link works for me.

        I'll copy and paste the article and PM it to you.

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        • #5
          Allie

          It's too long to PM.

          If you send me your email I'll send it direct.

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          • #6
            Thanks Margaret - just got it to load though!!

            Really sad.......
            Alison

            Researching:
            CAVE, CUCKOW/COSHOW, DAKIN, GILBERT, GINN, HUXLEY, LEATT, LETTEN, PATTERSON, PERRY, PORTER, SOMMERVILLE, WEEDON, WHITING
            http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=1025
            http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=2650


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            • #7
              Originally posted by allie island View Post
              Really sad.......
              Isn't it just.

              Hope it does get published. Should be compulsary reading so that people realise how hard life was in those days.

              Glad she managed to make contact with her adopted son though.

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              • #8
                What is amazing is how 'recent' this all was!
                Alison

                Researching:
                CAVE, CUCKOW/COSHOW, DAKIN, GILBERT, GINN, HUXLEY, LEATT, LETTEN, PATTERSON, PERRY, PORTER, SOMMERVILLE, WEEDON, WHITING
                http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=1025
                http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=2650


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                • #9
                  Allie

                  I am old enough to tell you that the world appeared to change OVERNIGHT, sometime in 1969!

                  We went from a prudish Edwardian morality, where things were done to people for their own good (in the biased opinion of the doer, mind you) to the anything-goes, the-individual-is-paramount attitude that we have now.

                  OC

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                  • #10
                    LOL!
                    It's a shame we didn't follow a middle path!
                    Alison

                    Researching:
                    CAVE, CUCKOW/COSHOW, DAKIN, GILBERT, GINN, HUXLEY, LEATT, LETTEN, PATTERSON, PERRY, PORTER, SOMMERVILLE, WEEDON, WHITING
                    http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=1025
                    http://www.authonomy.com/ViewBook.aspx?bookid=2650


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                    • #11
                      We went from a prudish Edwardian morality, where things were done to people for their own good (in the biased opinion of the doer, mind you) to the anything-goes, the-individual-is-paramount attitude that we have now.
                      Sounds like 1660 all over again!

                      Tim
                      "If we're lucky, one day our names and dates will appear in our descendants' family trees."

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                      • #12
                        How shocking that it is so RECENT.

                        *sniffs*
                        Rose

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                        • #13
                          It changed long before then, OC ! 1950 after the war years would be nearer the mark by my memory !

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                          • #14
                            It's a shame that she or any other person had to live such a life. She was a baby.
                            Kit

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                            • #15
                              Would someone be kind enough to send this to me as unfortunaely the link won't work?!?

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                              • #16
                                Kelly

                                Try the link again it works for me.

                                If not, pm me with your email address, its too long to send as a pm.

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                                • #17
                                  Hello margaret

                                  It keeps trying to load them timing out Ill pm you

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                                  • #18
                                    Kelly

                                    It's sent

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                                    • #19
                                      Thank you Margaret

                                      My puter must be poorly its just thrown me off line

                                      am off to read it now thank you very much xx

                                      Its an awful story but I'm glad it had a happy ending would love to read the book if it gets published its amazing what people can live through and come out shining!
                                      Last edited by kelly smith; 06-02-08, 12:42.

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                                      • #20
                                        BC

                                        I suppose a lot depends on where you lived - in my area, "bad" girls were still being put away and so was anyone a bit "different", certainly well into the late 1960s.

                                        It might have been the swinging sixties on the telly - but it wasn't in rural Lancashire!

                                        OC

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