Hi I am trying to fid out more info based on the little my dad told me. My dad (RIGLEY) was born in 1928 in Sunderland because his mum had followed his dad around the country ( by this time she had been deserted by him). At some point authorities found my dad with his brothers and sisters abandoned in an attic. This must have been in Nottingham. Dad always said that as a child he remembered a woman climbing over glass covered walls to get back into the workhouse. By thsi time he and his siblings had been split up. He was fostered out to a family in WORKSOP. I dont kow if he went through Barnardos. He thinks that the workhouse had become a childrens home by that time. At 14 he had to go out to work so that money could be given to foster mum who wouldnt/couldnt afford to send him to Grammar school. He located his mum when he was nearly 30 and she would sporadically turn up during my childhood. I know a brother turned up when I was about 5 ( about 1964) but I never met his sister or other brother . I wondered how or eevn if I could locate information regarding his childhood history LIz