The children who lived at the workhouse in Gressenhall were never expected to rise above their station in life.
The halfback had been a workhouse for the team, leading the league in total yards as recently as 2007.
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We were like 21st century Oliver Twists, poised to be kicked out of the workhouse if we asked for more gruel.
The Wellingborough Road site was built as a workhouse for the poor in 1836 and became a hospital in the 1930s.
Other events as part of Open Doors include tours of castles and churches in Gwynedd, and Llanfyllin Union Workhouse in Powys, and a display of community archives at Denbigh town hall.
Born a bastard in Wales and raised in a workhouse there, he denied his humble beginnings, changed his name from John Rowlands to Henry Morton Stanley and claimed the United States as his birthplace.
When Thomas Jefferson described the view from Monticello in 1786, he wrote, "How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"
She met the great and the good on equal terms, but she knew something of what it meant to be working class, and of how those families stood on a knife-edge between survival and precipitation into the street and the workhouse.
The final pavilion, 'Reform and Inspire', focuses on the little known sequel to the Crimean years: the half-century during which Nightingale's reforming power was felt across the entire public health spectrum - not just nursing, but also hospital design, midwifery, workhouse reform, army health reform, together with the pioneering use of statistical data to record and analyse the nation's health.
But, you might be surprised to learn what some women endured to win the vote, including being rounded into the Occoquan Workhouse for 60 days of hard labor, forced feeding, instrumental invasion of the body and in the case of Lucy Burns, imprisoned for her stance on suffrage and having her hands chained to the cell bars above her heads and left over night repeatedly.
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