|
Date: |
|
Description: | Gladys Taylor lived at Acacia Cottage from 1929-1939. The Cottage was one of the homes at Shirley Residential Schools. The Schools were for children whose parents had died or were not able to keep them. The pupils trained for work so that they could get jobs when they left. When Gladys's father died in 1928, her mother turned to the local Parish Guardians of the Poor for help. The Guardians sent two of her children to the Shirley Residential Schools, over 20 kilometres away. At the time there were few state benefits for the poor. Gladys's mother lost her husband and then found herself unable to live with her children because she could not afford support them on her own. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Rights holder: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Subjects: | Home and Family | Temporal: | 1920s | Source: | Croydon Museum and Heritage Service | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
|
|