W-D Forties
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It's easy to forget that Workhouses are not that far in the past. The maternity hospital I was born in was previously a workhouse. The series has touched on the workhouse mentality quite a bit - the brother and sister who lived as a couple in the first series had been in one too.
About 20 years ago they started closing down some of the state run 'homes' that still existed here for people with learning difficulties and I remember that some elderley women had been in there for 40+ years. Their 'difficulty' was that they had gotten pregnant out of wedlock as teenagers and been committed for 'moral' reasons. It's frightening.
About 20 years ago they started closing down some of the state run 'homes' that still existed here for people with learning difficulties and I remember that some elderley women had been in there for 40+ years. Their 'difficulty' was that they had gotten pregnant out of wedlock as teenagers and been committed for 'moral' reasons. It's frightening.