Thankyou Peter. Very well related and erudite. It would be wonderful were you to do a video which speaks of the handover to LA's: to what extent the older approach continued; use public authorities made of former Workhouse staff and the governmental handling of the many orphans of WW2 years and use of PA staff ( often former workhouse staff?) in 'disposal' of these children into, often, poverty stricken homes by payment and consideration for council housing. Desire to reduce expenditure was still paramount? I am 84 and would be delighted to read of the experiences of similarly aged people who experienced the public childrens' homes, fostering and adoption during 1940/1950 period.
@@avalondreaming1433 Yes, that is terrible, but I charge you to consider this: at least they had the ability to earn a shelter and food rather than perish alone and absolutely homeless. Not saying they had it good, just saying that workhouses weren't total garbage and could at least begin to ease the pains of poverty.
@@Peter-uu2qg If you lived through the poor diet, frequent various stages of hypothermia every winter, as well as the various fatal diseases people were very likely to fall prey to, both highly contagious and the diseases which were caused by lack of Vitamins and other nutrients including vitamin C. As for food, it was whether it was fresh and quantity enough to work enough to not be thrown out for "being lazy". The narrator makes it seen that they were all of a similar not so bad standard.
@@angr3819 Well, I do not want to speak as though I am an expert on this, but conditions for everybody were worse in general the farther back in time you go... and while there was much exploitation of poor workers there, at least there was for the disadvantaged an option to survive. As I'm sure you know, many regimes and the such have denied these things in eras closer to our own time and they are denied even in some cases today. I think its better to provide a poor way out of poverty than to provide none, and even more so than to deny all.
Doesn't sound so very bad - If you lived through the poor diet, frequent various stages of hypothermia every winter, as well as the various fatal diseases people were very likely to fall prey to, both highly contagious and the diseases which were caused by lack of Vitamins and other nutrients including vitamin C. As for food, it was whether it was fresh and quantity enough to work enough to not be thrown out for "being lazy". The narrator makes it seen that they were all of a similar not so bad standard. The BBC interviewed a lady who along with her mother and siblings were in a dismal workhouse as late as 1971. So much for the false reports that the last one closed in the 1930's, or 1948 etc. History is rarely what we are most commonly told.
Very informative and interesting! Well done. Thank you.
Thankyou Peter. Very well related and erudite. It would be wonderful were you to do a video which speaks of the handover to LA's: to what extent the older approach continued; use public authorities made of former Workhouse staff and the governmental handling of the many orphans of WW2 years and use of PA staff ( often former workhouse staff?) in 'disposal' of these children into, often, poverty stricken homes by payment and consideration for council housing. Desire to reduce expenditure was still paramount?
I am 84 and would be delighted to read of the experiences of similarly aged people who experienced the public childrens' homes, fostering and adoption during 1940/1950 period.
Would you please do a separate instruction on Ireland's workhouses? Seeking Dromore west, Easkey Sligo Ireland lists and info.
Really helpful. Thanks so much!
Thank you. Fascinating and well presented.
I’m reading Norman longmate the workhouse, it’s so harrowing and just awful,how they were treated.
Wow. I never knew workhouses were so kindly. I thought they were much worse.
Well, he makes it seem so, but did you catch the fact they had a 4 year old girl and an 80 year old woman working at one?
@@avalondreaming1433 Yes, that is terrible, but I charge you to consider this: at least they had the ability to earn a shelter and food rather than perish alone and absolutely homeless. Not saying they had it good, just saying that workhouses weren't total garbage and could at least begin to ease the pains of poverty.
As long as you don't mention Andover..
@@Peter-uu2qg If you lived through the poor diet, frequent various stages of hypothermia every winter, as well as the various fatal diseases people were very likely to fall prey to, both highly contagious and the diseases which were caused by lack of Vitamins and other nutrients including vitamin C.
As for food, it was whether it was fresh and quantity enough to work enough to not be thrown out for "being lazy".
The narrator makes it seen that they were all of a similar not so bad standard.
@@angr3819 Well, I do not want to speak as though I am an expert on this, but conditions for everybody were worse in general the farther back in time you go... and while there was much exploitation of poor workers there, at least there was for the disadvantaged an option to survive. As I'm sure you know, many regimes and the such have denied these things in eras closer to our own time and they are denied even in some cases today.
I think its better to provide a poor way out of poverty than to provide none, and even more so than to deny all.
they had lost their land in the Enclosures, they were NOT idle layabouts!
Doesn't sound so very bad - If you lived through the poor diet, frequent various stages of hypothermia every winter, as well as the various fatal diseases people were very likely to fall prey to, both highly contagious and the diseases which were caused by lack of Vitamins and other nutrients including vitamin C.
As for food, it was whether it was fresh and quantity enough to work enough to not be thrown out for "being lazy".
The narrator makes it seen that they were all of a similar not so bad standard.
The BBC interviewed a lady who along with her mother and siblings were in a dismal workhouse as late as 1971. So much for the false reports that the last one closed in the 1930's, or 1948 etc.
History is rarely what we are most commonly told.
Yeah I've never been a fan of tuesdays either.😂😂😂
You’re making it sound like the work house was a great and comforting place when it was created to be the most dreadful place to stop the idle poor.
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