siamesefeline1
07-02-2009, 2:27 AM
Hi. I wonder if anyone can give me some idea of what it was like to live in a workhouse in 1911.I wonder if ANYONE on this site ever actually lived in one as well? My husband's grandmother was in the one in Swaffield Road, Wandsworth, London. His father and two of his sisters were also there. We do not know where the elder (14yrs) sister was at that time. What situation could have put them in there.|help| I DO have an old photograph of my father in law at some sort of school. It looks very swish - not a workhouse school surely - and he looks older than 12 which he was in 1911. However cannot read the name on the Shield of the School or whatever.He signed up for WW1 at age 16 so it must have been between the ages of 12-16. DID they wear smart clothes in a workhouse? Also his mother (my husband's grandmother) had 8 children, two of whom died, before she married in 1917??? Her sister on the other hand, never married and was a Matron at a Hospital. Nothing queer as folk is there? I wondered if anyone had a photo of the Swaffield Road Workhouse? |banghead|My husband grew up in Battersea, about a mile and a half from that area and his father never said a word.They passed it many a time and still not a word. Even found two Aunts he never knew he had. So sad really that people felt the need to keep secrets like that isn't it? We are down in the depths of Cornwall and not that mobile anymore so visiting is a problem. If anyone can help in anyway, I would be grateful. My local Library is a Mobile One and it takes weeks to get a book if you order and even then if it is very current they don't have them.|banghead||banghead| Thanks in advance just in case there is a saviour out there.
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