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Foundling token PNGs.

"‘Foundling’ is an historic term applied to children, usually babies, who have been abandoned by parents then discovered and cared for by others. (...) Between the 1740s and 1760s, mothers leaving their babies at the Foundling Hospital would also leave a small object as a means of identification. The hope was that they would one day be able to reclaim their child." — (Foundling Museum)

(1. Crystals, 2. Hazelnut, 3. Halved inscribed medallion, 4. Child's ring, 5. Mother of Pearl pineapple, 6. Key, 7. Thimble, 8. Paper and textile heart, 9. Mother of Pearl inscribed heart, 10. Enamel disc, 11. "Innocence in Safety" inscribed coin, 12. Fish-shaped gambling token, 13. Wooden pot with rouge, 14. Inscribed padlock, 15. "You have my Heart, Tho we must Part" inscribed heart disc.)

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A Royal Recycling (part 355)

Zara

The Princess of Wales arrives at the Foundling Museum to meet those with lived experience of the care system, as well as with foster carers and adoptive parents to hear about their experiences. May 25th, 2023.

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In other news, I visited the Foundling Museum last weekend.

It was both very sad and incredibly touching to see the variety of objects and trinkets on display.

These were left behind by desperate parents and guardians who still held out hope that they'd one day be able to return to claim back their precious children, and that such objects would help identify them when that time came.

One thing I actually didn't know beforehand was that each child surrendered at the Foundling Hospital was rechristened under a new name (if indeed their original name was even known in the first place). Pictured above is the font used in the act and just some of the new names they were given.

This was ostensibly done with the noble intent to protect the identity of the child's vulnerable mother/parents but really it just served to cut the child off from their old life and family entirely and often forever.

(I don't want to mix fiction with fact too much here but it is interesting to think that 'David Young' was likely not the name his mother gave him, and that Hickey was not the only one operating under a pseudonym of sorts)

And finally, just a few other interesting tidbits including literal Gruel on the menu (which I know in reality is simply a thin porridge type meal but will nonetheless never feel anything but dire and Dickensian to me) and a shiny cup awarded for 'Self Respect'.