On Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:52:51 +0100, nemo@erewhon.invalid (John Hill) wrote: ><roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> wrote: > >> Now, don't get me wrong, I am sure it will be an interesting series, I know >> some of the Wall to Wall People (indeed, I was in one of their programmes >> about the comedian John Bishop) and I recognise the exigencies of television >> demand a bit of emotion! However, am I being unfair in thinking these showbiz >> luvvies can turn on the tears and emotion to demand? Clearly, none of them can >> be family historians since people such as ourselves would take it all in our >> stride! Wouldn't we??? > >Agree, agree - my wife and I were much amused by the article. Compared >with some of the things in our family histories, a spell (or even final >years) in a workhouse is comparitively uninteresting. > >After all, you are of advanced years, you can no longer work, pensions >are unheard of for most people, and maybe your children are penurious; >what else to do? Starve on the street? Exactly. My great great grandfather spent his last years in Bodmin workhouse and died there at the age of 83. His wife and three of his four children had predeceased him, and the fourth child (my great grandfather) had emigrated. -- Steve Hayes Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/ http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/