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Surrey Rescue Laundry Home & Birmigham City Missio
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Shazzlou | Report | 10 Dec 2006 12:21 |
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My grandmother was in Birmingham City Mission Laundry and later in 1912 was an inmate at Surrey rescue laundry home. Would anyone know anything about these places, just wondering why she would have been at the Birmingham one then moved to Surrey if she was pregnant. Have tried Surrey archives and no one seems to know much about the place where it was or anything. |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 10 Dec 2006 13:52 |
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Sharon She may not have been pregnant, she may just have been a 'bad girl'. Bad girls = any girl who was doing, or suspected of doing, something that someone else didnt like! She could have been in there for the most slender of reasons - perhaps she stayed out late and her father didnt like it, or some local busybody thought she was in 'moral danger'. It was very easy to get a girl 'put away' in those days. Of course, she MAY have had a baby, and in that case may have been transferred to Surrey, to do her 'penance' - perhaps she was not sufficiently grateful or repentant for her treatment in the first home? Dreadful days. OC |
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Marie | Report | 10 Dec 2006 16:14 |
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Where was she born? Perhaps she was in service in the Birmingham area when she became pregnant and later went to her home area(Surrey).If it was a religious place then the nuns would have Houses in many areas and may have sent her to another place of their order. Maybe they liked her and wanted to keep her! |
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Marie | Report | 10 Dec 2006 16:32 |
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Googled and couldn't find anything about any Christian Mission laundry in Birmingham. Even Bristish History had nothing and that's usually an excellent site.M |
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Shazzlou | Report | 23 Dec 2006 17:13 |
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She was born in Wolverhampton. Birmingham archives have given me a little information. Apparently Birmingham City Mission laundry was for fallen women! I know that my nans brother was put in Barnardos when he was 11 and emigrated to Canada the following year at the same time as my nan was in Surrey rescue laundry home. Sorry if i am late with my replies but am new to this site!! |
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