A story of British Home Children in just 20 objects nu 7 .......... a farmhouse and the home of a British Home Child

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 a photograph of Saye V. Griffith’s farmhouse in Sunbury County, N.B.  It is also where my great uncle spent a few unhappy months as a farm hand, before being sent back to the Middlemore Home at Fairview Station, Halifax, N.S.

Such unhappy experiences were common enough although it has to be said that he met great kindness and understanding from his second placement with Mrs Moffat at her farm in Cape Breton, N.S.  Not that this stay proved anymore successful.

Many of the farms were remote, and the work totally different from what a lot of the children had known in Britain.

Picture; from the collection of Andrew Simpson, courtesy of Angela Flaubert, 2010