#barnardo

[theworldofwars]

From the late 1860s right up to 1948, over 100,000 children of all ages were emigrated right across Canada, from the United Kingdom,  to be used as indentured farm workers and domestics. Believed by Canadians to be orphans, only approximately 12 percent truly were.  During the First World War, many Home Boys enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, just to get back to see any family that they might still have in the ‘old’ country. Some ran away from their placements and lied about their age to achieve this or to get away from a bad or abusive placement.

[crinkliedfries]

hamlet except barnardo, francisco, horatio, and marcellus wear the ghostbuster costumes for at the very least act 1, scene 1 

[meandrichard]

Flash from the past There was also this new-to-me picture of Richard Armitage at the Birmingham Rep, tweeted by them, today. For more about this production, see here.

[considerablecolors]

Horatio, Marcellus, and Barnardo, trying to convince The Ghost to stay and talk to them:

The Ghost:

[londiniumlundene]

Ragged School Museum

Thomas Barnardo arrived in London in 1866, seeking to train as a doctor before heading to China on missionary work: he never got there. Instead, after seeing the devastating effects of a cholera epidemic in the East End, he left his medical practice, and devoted his efforts to helping the less fortunate. In 1867, he opened the first ‘ragged school’, so called as many of those who attended were dressed only in rags. The ragged schools provided a free education, though perhaps their biggest draw to some children was the free hot meals.

The ragged school on Copperfield Road opened in 1877, formed from the joining together of three warehouses originally used for storing the goods transported along the neighbouring Regent’s Canal. 

It is reckoned that over the 31 years it operated, tens of thousands of children attended, and were given the opportunity to have a better chance at finding gainful employment.

After the school closed in 1908, the buildings returned to industrial uses until they were scheduled for demolition in the 1980s. Realising that the warehouses were the only surviving buildings to have housed a Barnardo’s ragged school, local people formed the Ragged School Museum Trust to preserve them. Today, the museum houses a replica classroom, a Victorian kitchen, and an exhibition on the history of ragged schools and the local Tower Hamlets area.

[shakespeareanthoughts]

How now, Horatio? You tremble and look pale. Is not this something more than fantasy?

Barnardo, Hamlet (1.1.53-54)

[sparkysparklesuphigh]

This bitch is going charity shop shopping tomorrow!

[lindaseccaspina]

Dcumenting British Home Children -- Norah Archibald Wilson Reginald Wilson Lanark County

Photos from the Middleville Museum NameNora ArchibaldGenderFemaleRacial or Tribal OriginEnglishNationalityCanadianMarital StatusSingleAge10Birth Date29 May 1890Birth PlaceEnglandResidence Date1901ProvinceOntarioResidence PlaceCanadaRelation to Head of HouseAdopted ChildImmigration Year1893ReligionPresbyterianMonths at School7Can ReadYCan WriteYCan Speak EnglishYDistrictLanark…

Dcumenting British Home Children -- Norah Archibald Wilson Reginald Wilson Lanark County