A story of British Home Children in just 20 objects which are in no particular order, have been selected purely at random and will reflect one of many different stories.
Anyone who wants to nominate their own is free to do so, just add a description in no more than 200 words and send it to me.
This is Mrs Lottie Moffatt’s application in 1915 for a British Home Child to work on her farm in North Sydney, Cape Breton County, N.S.
The forms were fairly standard and don’t seem to vary from charitable agency.
This is from the Middlemore Home which arranged the settlement of my great uncle on behalf of the Guardians of the Derby Poor Law Union in 1914.
The details of the agreement were not always adhered to and have led to the accusation that for many the scheme was a way of getting cheap farm labour.
Picture;
from the collection of Andrew Simpson
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