The BBC programme Breakfast has just done an item on Dr Barnardo as this is the 100th anniversary of his death. (For non Bitish Dr Barnardo founded a child caring charity which bears his name.) One elderly lady was explaining that she was an unwanted baby taken into care by Barnardo's in 1930. She was place with "the best foster mother in the world" but had to return to Barnardo's for two years when she was 14 for "domestic training". This would have bee the early 1930s. While she was telling this the screen switched to black and white photographs the first of which showed four teenage girls making bobbin lace on enormous bolster pillows supported by traditional horses. Now, did the "domestic training" include bobbin lace or was this felt to be a "suitable" interest/hobby for these girls? As the other photographs definitely showed scenes of Barnardo's life I assume the lacemaking one came from their archives too.
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