Children in care
Winifred Price, born in London’s East End, arrived at a children’s home run by the Waifs and Strays Society in Norfolk in 1908. She had said goodbye to her tearful mother in London, before being put on a train at Liverpool Street station, unaccompanied, and sent off to a new life in the countryside. She was just six years old.
‘Many came into care when one or both parents died’
She later recalled, “I can remember the bewilderment and misery of that long journey with strange people. We eventually arrived… and I was met by a (to me) grim bespectacled person with a little bonnet on her head, and was lifted up on to a high dog cart between the ‘ogre’ and the driver, to say I was terrified was putting it mildly…”
Winifred was one of thousands of children who were unable to remain with their birth parents and were taken into the care of the
