100 Fishponds Road: Eastville Workhouse's Paupers Remembered.
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- In 2015, the Eastville Workhouse Memorial Group unveiled a memorial for the 4,084 paupers buried in a mass grave at Rosemary Green. We follow them and the Bristol Radical History Group's efforts to correct this historical wrong, and to bring light upon the ever-continuing assault on working people's conditions.
www.brh.org.uk/
English subtitles have finally been added, after many comments about how hard to hear the opening interview with Roger is. I absolutely agree, this was a first year uni project and not an interview we originally intended to include - but trying to arrange a group of students together to finish it off properly was a little too hard apparently! I hope the subtitles help people understand his points better - and that those hard of hearing can finally watch this too! - as Roger and the Bristol Radical History Group do fantastic work and I'm glad that so many thousands of people are now aware of the beautiful memorial they made for the Eastville paupers, as well as the hard work of uncovering the mass grave in the first place as well as identifying each person buried.
Anyway cheers for watching, I'll try and add subtitles to the remaining documentaries very soon too. And please like/subscribe etc etc etc
To all the people typing "SO MUCH FOR 'WHITE PRIVILEGE'!!!" or such nonsense, your posts will continue to be removed. Firstly, 'white privilege' does not mean "white people have no problems", it means "white people don't suffer discrimination based on being white". It's that simple. Please actually read about white privilege from black people instead of whatever boring rightwing youtuber has been filling your brains with bile.
Secondly, upper-class white people ran and operated these workhouses and middle-class white people approved. If you see a documentary showing the cruelty and barbarity of the white, ruling-class of Britain and your first thought is "how can I get angry at black people about this?", you really need to examine where this disgusting obsession of yours has come from.
Thirdly, the Bristol Radical History Group were also part of the Countering Colston project that sought to remove Colston statues and Colston's name from public places across Bristol due to him being a slavetrader. So neither the filmmakers nor the people who actually put the time, care and love into this memorial project have anytime for your disgusting bigotry and fascist dogwhistling.
In conclusion, racists get fucked and continue shouting into the void on here as your posts are removed one by one. Absolutely pathetic and I hope you're ashamed of your worthless existences.
Sue private Chanel leaves comments but you can’t reply to them ? Strange !
@@PauperProduction This maybe only tangentially germane but I share it to amplify your comment. In the media (see: Amanpour Report) a social scientist reported his research into motives for the Jan 6th event at the US Capitol. The surprise I had was that after years of denying the very existence of White Privelege, interviews with actors in the event vehemently resented the "changes in society" that put People of Color on a par with Whites concerning access to opportunities. My take-away was that though Whites denied special privilege, they indeed recognized that access to opportunities can be shaped and they had come to anticipate such regard as their due. Oh, the games we play in the backs of our heads....
Oooopppssss....I must have missed something. Am I to understand that all of the bodily remains were exhumed? I didnt get that from the video. Help?
@@brucesims3228 bones were discovered pretty much immediately - including those bones of children we show in the video. As it is their resting place, the bones were returned to the ground once the memorial was installed
A lot of local people report that during the construction of the housing estate nearby - during the 70s I believe - a LOT of bones were unearthed. There are lots of stories about people picking up a skull on their way to work and then showing them off to their workmates. I dunno, kinda weird, but a lot of people report the same. The bones we discovered are back under that innocuous football pitch now
As for your other comment, yeah a lot of people can only envision the uplifting of marginalised groups as coming at the expense of them. Instead of us lifting each other up together. European and American history (and white colonial history in general) is built upon privileges at the expense of others, so it's not surprising that the white psyche can only imagine other people acting in the same manner. So for working class white people who don't have much to begin with, there's a fear of losing the meagre privilege already afforded - altho ironically I think most people crying about the 'non-existence' of white privilege are actually middle-class white people
My great-great grandmother died in a work house as a young woman. Two of her daughters went into the Bernardo orphanage and her two sons were sent to a workhouse. The girls were sent to Canada as young teens and the two younger brothers came to Canada shortly after. They had a good life in their new home. One of the girls married a seaman from Canada and moved to New Zealand, eventually ending in California. They were so young to be on their own....
Heartbreaking to hear about the sad stories many children had...
TY for sharing this
My mum and uncle were in barnardos childrens homes because my mums aunt ruth ellis had just become the last ever woman to be hanged in britain and her sister muriel decided it would be better to live off selling books and articles about her sister than to raise her children. My mums never met her brother and the sexual and physical abuse she suffered made her very overprotective of us. Which at the time we hated but now we know why. When the girls got thier period they'd be given one sanitary towel to last the whole cycle and my mum was forced through a mangle as a punishment.
@@starrchild254 absolutely heartbreaking to hear that. The world is such a cruel place.
@@lesley4807 my mum doesn't like talking about it muxh but she's akways said her biggest regret is that she never got to meet her littke brother.
Can you imagine the smell in a dormitory with thirty girls, with possibly 8 or 9 onthier period at the same time and each of them trying yo make do with thier single sanitary towel?
... and then these poor youths were gathered up and used as fodder for the great wars, only to return, if they did return, to no support for their services.
Yes and then those with lost limbs or damaged faces were once again judged and marginalized. Breaks a person's heart doesn't it.
Absolutely.Thats why England always had armies around the world.
AND THE ROYALS STARTED THE WARS
History has never been good / fair throughout the whole world
@@janeholmes9374 These same people worship the grounds these same Royals step on. All the upper classes would not spit on the working class if they were on fire.
I was born and grew up in 133 Fishponds Road and it was never spoken about to me.
Only found out about the Eastville Workhouse thanks to the Bristol Radical History Group
So very sad, a beautiful tribute thankyou we must never forget 😔 Godbless them xx
Very humbling, lest we forget.
shows you today. 2021... foodbanks.
Don't forget Universal Credit, brought in by that man who hates poor people Iain DUNCAN SMITH, plus the NHS being slowly sold under our noses
During the Depression, my Grandfather "ran moonshine" to feed his family. He was also a "card shark". He did what he had to do to make sure his family had food.
one of the saddest things I've heard and watched
I think it's so impressive how feminists can ignore this elephant in the room when claiming the world would be a better place if ruled by women....
What's the elephant in the room?
My father spent some years in Barnardos Homes with his brothers after his father was killed in Western Australia and their mother returned to London. He said the women carers they had when younger were cruel and wicked but when they were older and moved to the older boys dormitories most of the men looking after them were not so bad.
Their only sin was being poorer than poor!
My Gt Gt Aunt Sarah Twose died there in 1921
Hi Peter, I am member of the BRHG. I'd like to talk to you about your Gt Gt Aunt Sarah if you would consider this? I have tried to message you privately but it appears that I can't.
You can message me privately.
Thanks
My four times great grandfather ended his days in a work house, his second wife was Catholic and so he converted, so in those days it would have been seen as a poor image and the rest you know
Thank you for your kind reply I hope to hear more from your channel as I found it very interesting God bless 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
I lived in Fishponds Road. I remember kids kicking skulls around during the 1970’s, I think they pulled it down for housing.
I lived on the estate 77-92
Dang
Ugh.... seriously?
Nothing changed much then the inequities still exist
My goodness
Sighs, man's inhumanity to each other will never change,
Those impostors sat n enjoyed the blood shed by the poverty stricken slaves and had the temerity to think they deserved their ill gotten luxurious lives...VENGENCE IS MINE SAITH THE LORD!!
Dear lost souls. You may not have been remembered in your time, but the people of the furture know you and honor you. Your suffering is over. Let us all be thankful for the life we now leed. Many of us could have been like you. Rest in peace all souls.
Pretty prayer. Thank you.
There are people in britain TODAY living on £60 a week and rishi sunak wants to cut that by £20 a week
Those old times are coming back with universal credit and the food bank ! Down with capitaliism and yes to a new fairer society! Listen to those left behind before its to late
@@cosmicmusicreynolds3266 my point exactly
It's still happening
Imagine being punished for being poor, on top of all the other humiliation and grinding physical labour demanded at the workhouse. Very much a concentration camp. Only things missing were the gas chambers!!!
It was in no way close to a concentration camp. People in the workhouse were given a bed of their own, three meals, and children were given an education. Was it fun? Not even remotely. Did people still die? Absolutely. But it was still better than starving and freezing to death on the streets. At least in the workhouse, you were warmer, cleaner, and fuller. It was the first attempts at social welfare.
Those poor people. So touching that the modern community honoured their lives like this.
We don't know how lucky we are.
The new Poor Law was introduced in 1834. Its aim was to prevent those who were without work from living off poor relief. Thus workhouses were built. The conditions in these places were so terrible that people either looked for work or were prepared to starve rather than to enter the workhouse. Thank goodness those days are gone.
The irony is the modern community honour those people, but for the most part we despise the poor of our own era.
Sure there's the dole - that isnt enough to live on, and social housing, but the stigma and the lack of care toward the modern poor is exactly the same.
We ewven have homeless people who would prefer to live rought that enter the modern equivilant to the workhouses.
@@1337flite today people on the dole live in luxury compared to those poor people they have coloured TV fridges even cars .I was brought up in the 1940s and early 50s second eldest of 6 children we had nothing compared to today's unemployed and my dad was in full time employment but we were much better off than the workhouse .todays idea of poverty would be considered luxury in those days
You hear about how single mothers were ostricised, and forced with their children to live horrific lives. Never a single word or reference to the men involved, or question of their responsibility.
That's mostly because men could get a job, but back then, it was really tough for women to find a job, and they were the ones who were left with the children to have to feed. It's always been the women who were frowned upon, regardless of what their individual circumstances were.
@@MimiJoys Not only that women generally didn’t even earn half of what men could.
This is the shameful history of Britain! My dad went down the mines at 13, working waste deep in water, with a pickaxe at the coal face! He had better be with God, and at rest.
My dad went down mines at 13 also this a v sad story
So very cruel. ⚘
It's still happening today. It's name hasn't even changed. Poverty.
Indeed.
It's hard to believe how the richest country in the world at that time treated their own. Truly sickening.
Blame God,its his will that we live like lice.
@@weemac4645 There is no God per se as humans we have our own empathy and compassion to choose if we want to help others and how we live our life here will show where we end up in next incarnation or not
The British Empire was built on the mistreatment and deaths of it’s most impoverished workers.
My husband’s grandmother was sent to Canada at seven years of age to work in the kitchen of a well off home. She never had a childhood. She never knew family love and acceptance. This causes a breakdown in future generations of the family and takes many years of healing.
@@wrangler71 its against the law to employ a 7 year old child.
of course they did not mark the gravesites, those poor and dear people where abandoned while they were living , and much more so after they died. they did the same for orphans here in Quebec in the fifties.
just by chance my research led me to find my husband's great grandmother Maria Dobias died in this workhouse. It is nice to know after what she endured that she and all the others buried here are remembered and their lives finally acknowledged.
It will not matter to Maria, what we do now.
We must never forget the humiliations and degradation people suffered because they were poor and enfeebled. Meanwhile Queen Victoria was putting up monuments to Albert on every square inch.
Well said
Right on!
Exactly....evil sobs....
It is worthy to note and compare the conditions of free Englishmen and that of their enslaved dusky brethren.
And Boris is now spending billions on a new ‘royal’ ship (our money) whilst the poor get poorer and rich get richer!
Let's stop this about putting anybody superior to anybody...we are still doing it...idealizing people...rich/ poor...
My father spent his childhood in Croydon workhouse, remaining there after his mother and siblings had managed to find work and leave. He repeatedly tried to run away but was always caught and was given the birch as a punishment by the matron in her office. Eventually he escaped by joining the army at the outbreak of the war, he was 15. Years later the workhouse was repurposed as a hospital, it is still there and is called Mayday hospital.
Towards the end of my dads life he was taken in to Mayday hospital by ambulance after suffering a heart attack, I visited him, although he was recovering quite well he asked me to take him outside in a wheelchair, which I did.
As we progressed through the old buildings he told me about what he remembered about the building when he was there as a child, the womans building, the childrens areas etc. When we got to a nice spot in the rosegarden next to a small victorian chapel he started to cry, I assumed it was because of friends buried in that garden, but then he told me that the reason he was crying was because after his emergency he had woken up in the hospital in the same room that he used to be taken to be beaten and for a moment he thought he was going to be beaten again and that he couldnt bear being there.
How sad . To have such horrible memories relived.
That made me cry. What a terrifying feeling he had upon awakening. Truly breaks 💔 my heart.
Your Father's story is incredibly sad. Unimaginable how brutal poor children had it. Treated worse than dogs.
How very sad. May your Dad rest in eternal peace.
How sad for your dad to be back where his most feared childhood memories came from and even today in a lot of cities there are these old buildings that were turned into hospitals and my grandma was taken there before she died and looking back it must have terrified her..I bet the tears that were wept in these places would have filled all the oceans in the world...
What a decent community , it’s nice to see that they have not been forgotten
Would these same people be willing to help a homeless person they see on the street.
Makes u wonder how many more have been forgotten... all of them should be recognised.. u did a good thing Bristol x
Capitaliism has no sentiment ! We are going back to these days in the 21st century! Universal credit, food banks , zero hour contracts ! Workers o the world unite ! No to poverty and no to going back to these tragic times
They should plant 4,048 bulbs there around the memorial. Very touching.
I can see them coming back.....of course they won't call them workhouses and they will be put out to tender to companies like Serco.....Residential Employment Rehabilitation has a ring to it
Look how horribly Amazon treat's it's workers. The more things change.
God forbid..I'm in a terrifying situation...and there must be others too...
Every time I see this picture of the two children huddled together, I cry.
The little girl looks remarkably much like my daughter when she was that age.
To see that scared frail little face, makes me want to go back in time and take care of her.
These children were deprived of food, care and a childhood.
All they wanted was love, care and food.
This absolutely kills me.
i agree Nancy....that picture moved me very much.
When I look at their picture I wonder what their story was and if they were somehow saved from such sad lives.
What a very kind and thoughtful thing to do.....I believe a couple of my a ancestors were actually In the Fishponds workhouse as I remember my Mum making a quick reference to it to one of her sisters when I was about age 5 ....I never herd her talk about it after that......
I’m so sick and tired of the victim hood narrative in America. These are true victims. God bless their souls, I can’t even imagine. Makes me so very sad
Yes and these poor souls had what the new professional victimhood in the usa call...white privilege..no such thing.it was and always will be class privilege in the uk.If only they were taught relevant history in schools or..real history and not this made up clap trap thats made up.
Some people that left Scotland and Wales for better lives abroad did not fare that well either apparently. Ozzie Osborne’s wife Sharon researched her history to find terrible things happened to her ancestors that moved to Canada, basically suffered terrible poverty, worked long hours but their wages just paid rent and all their children, bar eldest daughter, died. It sounds like they had left one living hell for another.
@@Dottydewinter3397 "White Privilege"...Lol, okay I must have missed the boat. Here in the US the "Victimhood" is indeed deep, problem is they have no clue. But the road we are headed down they just might find out.
So true. It's gross how someone equated this to Amazon employees of today. Like, really?
My gran had to put her sister, my aunt Mary, into the Parish workhouse. Affected how my poor mum was brought up in grinding poverty, which affected me. Gran finally got Aunty Mary out into a care home for the final months of her wreched life. When I see the film " Chritmas Carol" and Scrooge says " Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses? Let the poor go there!!" Still moves me even now. Rip Aunt Mary, Safe with God now.
'100 Fishponds Road' was still a scary address when I was a child in the 1950's.
@@ninnyspencer4774 tell us
I remember my grandmother who lived in easton. Telling me about her cousin whos husband died leaving her with 4 very young children and how she ended up there. Her kids were farmed out. So sad
@@lyndabelcher2195 Slavery in modern times.
I’ve been following Britain’s history for a couple years now and I am in America. What saddens me the most is how the British people were treated by the monarchy for the past thousand years. And they put up with it. In other countries they were killing they are monarchies but not Britain. The British people suffered so much in the 19 century. They still suffer today. But you still have a monarchy when are you going to get rid of them. They have been a scourge on your people for 1000 years.
Couldn't agree with you more, the monarchy is a great drain on society, living the lives of luxury when poverty is still very much a problem in the UK. I wish people would rise and make a stand to rid us of these parasites. We don't need them.
@@lesley4807 well said ✊
Not forgetting our government’s, that implemented the poor bill! The House of Lords ect, probably some of the worst perpetrators of the appalling treatment of the poor. Many would point the finger to the parish councils and those in charge.
Most of your elected presidents, from slave owners to Trump (need I mention that draft dodger and his opportunistic crimes) are not exactly smelling so pretty either. I was told by my father many years ago that Americans are jealous they don’t have a royal family and that very jealousy is why they ridicule royalty, yet embarrassingly brag about how great America is. It seems America takes advantage of its poorer workers, does not pay a living wage so many of these workers are poverty stricken and live in the streets homeless. I generally don’t think it is good form for people of one country to criticise another’s royalty or political processes but you brought it up. No one her has been denying the wealthier classes exploited the poor, but it is still continuing isn’t it, royal family or no?
@@lesley4807If you say this to a Royalist they will say we need them because they bring in the tourists and its tradition. Yet, having them you will have this class structure of Arisocrats, upper middle class, middle class, working class and the poor.
Mankind has inhabited this world for thousands of years, imagining the massive amount of human remains buried on this earth makes my mind weary.
So what?
Indeed but they are all in better place now we hope
I did recall though that there are more people alive today than those that ever lived. That thought actually makes me more weary. Imagine then if those of us living were all to be buried?! I am being cremated so I should not be taking up too much space. It makes sense that some cultures prefer cremations, vertical burials or even sky burials.
@@TASIAawful1 Get real you dickhead.
So, so sad. I am constructing my Family Tree at the moment and one of my ancestors was listed as 'pauper.' She was so very young. Such a sad time for the ordinary man and woman, some of their lives were abysmal and wretched. Child cruelty and poverty were rife in the Victorian era as was child abuse.
When you look at the photos you often see the misery etched on their poor little faces. Not a time to be poor or struggling. Films often portray the Victorian era as a 'golden time lost,' sorry it was not true, workhouses, malnutrition, hard manual jobs with no prospect, pension, or holidays, boy, today most people have no idea what it was like.
My paternal great-grandmother came from Ireland and married my great-grandfather very young. They had 17 children and only 8 survived. Hard, hard times. Thank you for this presentation as it is a good reminder for all of us that for many, life is not a bed of roses.
Terrible life back then...feel for the ones without..
Like with the holocaust and every world atrocity it's so important to remember people that have died in circumstances of degradation and repression. Beautiful memorial and ceremony.
What a great film. Thank you to everyone involved.
My mum had me at the age of 17 and was a single mother. No doubt we would have ended up in something like this if we were living in those times. It just me feel so very lucky. My heart goes out to all those people. So glad they did a memorial.
Thank you for this. I've just discovered my 4xg.grandmother Emma Probert was buried there in 1872.
Just seen this video, saw your comment and remembered the family name from the Easton area circa 70s, god bless.
Capitalist greed at its worst supported by church and state at the time.
Cant go back to times like that the lady said, what does she think zero hour contracts creates in people lives , never has Britain had so many WORKING POOR since Victorian era.......or have food banks existed for the poor and working poor as they do today , Britain’s poverty is being silenced .
@@sue3028 only existed since 2000, thats 21 years , a whole generation , you talk as if it’s Ok ! , no wonder the nation is going backwards , it’s that lack of objection that allows governments to normalise POVERTY .....disgusting mind set !
Those time are coming back but worse ask Prince Charles the globalist
Amazon warehouse......
Jesus has them wrapped in his arms. The poor shall inherit the kingdom of god. Those who were least on earth shall be first in heaven. God bless them all.
Pretty much the definition of Misery. I suspect many spent their time praying to die. What a Horror - and those poor, innocent Children - it seriously breaks your heart, as I look at photos of my Granddaughter, so happy, surrounded by love, great nutrition and enriching experiences. God Bless everyone involved in memorializing those who were cast off and discarded so callously. Hopefully they can now Rest in Peace.
Things have gotten so much better
What a horrendous legacy. I hope they are able to gather all the names of people who are there. All the names should be there. Maybe there are generations now that may find a family connection to this time and place. Even in 2020 you see all over the world, a sneering contempt for the poor in the media and how people perceive them as completely useless and no worthy of any care whatsoever.💔
VERY CRUEL ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED... THOSE POOR BABIES
I am sincerely moved by the of placing a marker at the site to commemorate the lives that were lost here, finally given a proper mention for those here today to pay respects.
These people couldn’t help the circumstances they were in.They were born into a life of poverty and it looks like they had no way out.Yet they were ridiculed even after death by those of a supposed “higher class”.
The box beds at 0:34, were used as coffins if the man died in his sleep.
Hats off to the community group for putting up the memorial. A forgotten cemetery becomes a neglected park, becomes a building plot granted by the council. Poignant words from every person who spoke up here.
My Grandparents lived in Freeland Buildings where a bomb site opened a view to Number 100. They lived in dread and fear of it. I believe there were still people living in it when I was a small child but not in what capacity. It was a blessing when it was demolished
I have just chanced upon this video. My Great-grandparents lived in Freeland Building, their daughter, my Grandmother worked as a cleaner in 100 Fishponds Road and lived in Berkeley Street. I was baptised in the church on Freeland Buildings.
And still too this day child poverty runs rife through the British isles parents desperate for work poor minimum wages that don’t reflect modern day life good olde uk 🇬🇧 were the rich get richer and the poor become homeless
What a lovely community to respect and honour the people who many have pushed aside. R.I.P to them all the 4018 people xx
About 25yrs ago I worked for the NHS in a building in Hackney, London, which had been a workhouse. What had been the work hall was still there and had a raised walkway around it, which was where the supervisors kept an eye on the inmates to make sure they didn't talk while working. It was a creepy place.
One day I came across an old woman sitting in a corridor and I asked her if she was ok/lost... 'oh' she says 'I was just remembering', turns out she had been in the workhouse as a small child and although her memories were not clear she did remember. She told me that for 85years she had walked past the building and been afraid, and that she hadn't wanted to come for her appointment but had made herself.
After a bit I walked with her to her physiotherapy session, having learnt that the past wasn't that long ago.
My nan was very much the same. The Dudley Guest hospital was a workhouse, although she never was in the workhouse, my Nan went in the hospital as she was poorly, she was absolutely terrified, begged to be taken out. It seems the horror of these places were never forgotten.
My mother who was born in 1928 grew up in Hackney Wick. My father and mother used to know about the terrible conditions of the workhouses. My mother had a happy childhood herself and seemed to enjoy the war years although they disrupted her education as their school was closed.
Touching distance
Thank you for your work in bringing Dignity to these souls who were treated without respect and empathy. I am desperate to find my gggrandmother who was born in Bristol and sent as a young woman as a convict to nsw. I have a feeling she and/or her parents were in a workhouse. Would love to know if you come across the surname Cooke x
Thank you for this. Great work Steve Miller and all involved. I'm grateful for being born in 1963 and not 1863. May God rest there souls 🙏
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How sad they suffered for the growth of an country.. R.I.P. to those who have suffered and died in such horrible ways..
Thank you for this I live in the UK I like learning UK history
When I was growing up in the Midlands, we were only taught British History. When I saw what my daughter has been taught now in History i was shocked and a little angry. They do a little bit of social and Economic History and the its swiftly onto Nazi Germany. WTH?
My mother born there 1903
A concentration camp!
Poor poor souls , rest in peace
God bless those who remember them
incredibly moving. these people had no privileges just short brutal lives. so very sad and upsetting.
We don't know how lucky we are today.Welfare ,housing medical help for everyone.
Let us all each and everyone not forget these poor souls.Rest easy in your hallowed ground.
Shocking how wicked
My God what a world God bless them all and let's e Thankful for the way we live now Thankyou for remembering these poor souls and so glad I was not born then💐🌹🏛
YOUR GREAT VICTORIAN AGE?? WHAT CEREMONY DID YOU GIVE THEM? ARE YOU NOT ASHAME.NOT REALLY
Heartbreaking. May their souls be at peace now. Bless them.
Im not sure if its my phone but i can barely hear this.. Thats too bad its a good video
So annoying, sounds like mumbling
No annoying intro , interesting content and good narration voice . Like & subscribe No problem 😉
So sad.thank you for bringing this to light❤️
You would think Queen Victoria, who had 10 children, would have been more concerned about the plight of children in her country.
She didn’t exactly like her own children apparently either.
She was a terrible mother. She said her babies looked like frogs. Then she was not raised by a loving, caring mother either. She did not care for her own so why bother with the people who had nothing. Difficult to believe that over 4000 people in a mass grave and no marker. Here in Canada though an unmarked grave of 215 babies and children buried by the Catholic church. They were Infigenous to Canada so seemed to be not worth more. Our countries shame in past governments. We know more will be found at the many residential schools for indigenous children who lie buried in unmarked graves across this land. Shameful history of government in many countries sadly.
Why would you think she would have empathy for children and poor ones at that. She could not bear her children, she has said so many times in letters. They saw the poor as another species and deserved what the got because they were poor through no fault of their own.
This heartbreaking first photo. The empire was not good all around.
Just a suggestion, please lower the volume of the background music. I had a difficult time understanding & hearing the spoken words. Thank you...
There are subtitles to help
Wow thank you. My cousin Randy and I are visiting our Grandfather’s Heritage and family from the east end of London. He and his brother were part of the Barnardo system and came to Canada at the young ages of 4 & 5! He was sent to live with a blind lady in Northern Ontario, later worked as a farm hand where he meet my grandmother Edith who was also an orphan. He was ten years older than her and proclaimed his love with a marriage proposal. She was too young at the time I believe 14, but not sure. He west west for work but returned for her hand in marriage. They raised 4 boys and a grandson in the small town of Orillia, Ontario. I am so looking forward to exploring this adventure of his early life beginnings, his family and surroundings with interviews, photographs, film and watercolor drawings.
Let me know if you're interested in our story or have any information on the Hawes family ! We are coming to London July 24-30. /18
Definitely going to visit Fishponds site.
Sincerely
Nicolee A Miller/Hawes
Wonderful story to hear TY
My great great grand parents worked in them as kids there mum put them there so they could have food,,
Fantastic piece and a great record of the project, thanks Pauper productions. And many many thanks to all in the local community and Bristol Radical History Group who put the effort into revealing this hidden piece of working class history in Bristol.
Wonderful memorial...they sure deserve it, even now. Well done!👍
This is so heartbreaking that people were put in workhouses thank god we don’t have then in the 21st century it must of been terrible for the people who were put there and the children were taken away.we should be so luck there not around to day.
Wonderful thing to do thank you.ALL lives matter, and this proves how the poor ordinary people in the past were treated so cruelly no matter what their colour by the rich and those in power.
Thanks to all people who made this memorial for these forgotten poor citizens.
Watching from Holland I’m always amazed at the huge gap in British society between the well to do versus the not so well off.
(It’s shows a striking resemblance to the caste system in India.)
All the more in view of the fact that the United Kingdom has a deeply rooted Christian heritage.
Can sm. please explain?🤨
I pray every single soul is cherished in Heaven, bless them all Lord Jesus. Amen Thankyou to that wonderful community xx
What a wonderful tribute and project. I'm so glad that so much attention was given to those given to anatomists if they (or their loved ones) were suffering so much poverty that they couldn't afford a funeral. Bless you all...
Very respectfully put together mon ami.
So many 'UA-camr's' (for want of a better word), and terrestrial TV production companies, totally misjudge such things,
it is almost as if nobody has any sense of occasion any more.
Bless these souls. 🌞
Nice shot of Bill (Matthew Billington) placing his carved headstone at 3.38.
I lived on Robertson road for many years, our garden backed onto the burial site, my next door neighbour had told me that all the bodies were dug up. the only ones that are left are babies and children who are buried on the site overlooking the cemetery. I am not sure if this is true but my neighbour says he was there when they dug the site up.
How do you get those who are “unable to work” to work?
It is an absolute disgrace that Bristol Corporation (now Bristol City Council) operated like this. Those 4000 people thrown into the mass grave were treated worse than a dead dog buried in the garden - nearly 1000 of them were babies.
I'm fascinated by this period of history & now that I'm retired, I've been attempting to write novels and short-stories set in this era. The fact remains, though, that this was a horrid-system, one whose theoretical-underpinnings were abyssmally-misguided. To say the government meant-well, tackling certain social-ills to the best of their ability, is an unacceptable attitude, then or now. The belief that such poor-unfortunates were responsible for their circumstances, that societal-conditions as a whole had nothing to do with it, that "going to the workhouse" was so undesirable as to make people straighten-themselves out in order to avoid such a chlling-fate, was, as I mentioned, a very flawed-concept, especially as the system actually was considered humanitarian in nature. This was a very-moving video to watch.
Oh my goodness. Makes me sad and angry. To treat humans with such disrespect and uncaring behavior. In the name of money. May the 4000 plus RIP.
Thankyou, thankyou and thankyou to whoever put this video together.
What possible excuse could the authorities have had for separating children from their mothers? I my view that's the same as making it official policy for the poor that there is nothing sacred; that there is not one last shred of empathy to be wasted on the poor. They lived and died for nothing but their suffering and tears and longing were very real. God bless you all for caring form Medellin Colombia.
i didnt know this untill now, i wish it could of been better for them, RIP to you all.