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Description: | C. Clauson (b 1891) grew up in Bow, in the East End. Here, in conversation with the historian Raphael Samuel, he describes his family background. In particular he describes his grandfather, who drove a hansom cab ? the horse-drawn precursor to the modern black cab. Mr Clauson remembers his grandfather's appetite for ale ? a common taste at this time, and a holdover from a time when water was often not safe to drink. Mr Clauson's grandfather ended up in the Poplar Workhouse when he became too old to work. Workhouses by this time would no longer have been the Dickensian nightmares of earlier years, but they remained harsh r��gimes until their abolition under the Local Government Act of 1929. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | work Home and Family | Temporal: | 1974 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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