In a message dated 09/02/2005 11:54:32 GMT Standard Time, trav126@hotmail.com writes: "In 1921 we were taken in to the Fulwood cottage homes, all separate houses with a house mother, but we had to look after ourselves, keep clean and tidy, polish our shoes and all this at just four years old." The older children probably helped them. A good lesson for taking care of themselves when they probably left at 14 to work. Children had to grow up before their time in those days. Judy.