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19-06-13, 10:33
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I've set it to record and I'm really looking forward to it as I have so many ancestors that were in the Workhouse at one time or another and I'm hoping to learn more about their lives. Let's hope the programme lives up to my expectations!
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19-06-13, 12:07
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Have marked it on my calendar and hope I remember to look !
One of my gt gt grans died in Westminster Union Workhouse in 1911 aged abt 84
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21-06-13, 10:57
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I do hope it is put on DVD .. I have a number who ended up there in Cornwall. Also a blacksmith in Bucks (think he could have been in the infirmary). I also have an ancestor who was a Governor of the workhouse in Milverton in Somerset.
I've been reading a story of a young 14 year old who was thrown out of the workhouse, when they found out her father was a bigamist .. I would have thought that should have been who they were trying to protect so I will be interested to hear what everyone thinks about the series. Julie
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21-06-13, 13:20
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It is now set for record set it yesterday must be a 7 day thing didn't try Wednesday.
I am looking forward to this.
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25-06-13, 21:42
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It was interesting, but I found it infuriating how they kept jumping from one story to another. I know that a lot of programmes work that way nowadays though. Laughed at Fern Britton being amazed that her ancestor was still working as an agricultural labourer at the age of 64!
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25-06-13, 21:45
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I loved it apart from the jumping from one to another, annoyed me about that
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25-06-13, 21:45
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Most of the celebrities continue into next week, so I'm afraid this may be something of a spoiler for Barbara Taylor Bradford's mother's and grandmother's story - I will post a link to their 1911 census entry but not transcribe it on here so people can choose whether to be spoiled!
ancestry 1911 census (If you don't have an ancestry sub and want to know what it says, I can send it to you in a PM.)
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25-06-13, 21:50
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Considering the subject of her books, I was shocked that Barbara Taylor Bradford seemed so ignorant of the life may poor people suffered in the past.
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"Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010
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