Travelling Over Footsteps of Historic Times

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Wandering around the backwaters of South Devon I often come upon memorials to the sort of poverty the working class endured in Victorian times and more recent history.

The old Almshouses in Cockington, workhouses set apart from the rest of the community, were yesterday's asylums where unmarried mothers were often confined after being seduced and made pregnant by local men who weren't branded as mad. Lots of things stick in the craw and raise the hackles.

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Travelling Over Footsteps of Historic Times

Most poor couples had big families, not only to help out with the domestic economy, but to keep the spectre of the workhouse just an unp...

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