Rupert Everett Visits His Grandad’s Orphanage
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Rupert Everett learns more about his grandfather's time in a foster home and finds it wasn’t as bad as it first seemed, with some evidence suggesting that he found a home there.
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Rupert Everett's varied acting career has involved starring in Hollywood films as diverse as My Best Friend's Wedding, Shrek 2 and The Importance of Being Earnest. Rupert has a rigidly conservative background and feels that much of his own life has been a reaction against it. Following the recent death of his father six months ago, he wants to investigate the paternal side of his family.
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Rupert visits his mother Sara to find out more about his father Tony's early life. He discovers that Tony's father Cyril worked in Nigeria for the Colonial Service. Sara has a photograph of Cyril as a two-year-old and tells Rupert that the family believe he was brought up by two aunts in Hammersmith. Rupert wants to find out more about Cyril's life and what he was doing in Nigeria. Rupert tracks down records which chart Cyril's career in the Service and discovers just how important a role he held in Nigeria. But what about Cyril's childhood? Rupert decides to search the online census records and unearths some very unexpected information. This is the start of a rollercoaster investigation into fathers and sons which Rupert describes as like an Ealing comedy, with its twists, turns and surprise relatives popping up. Rupert reflects on the ripple effects of broken relationships across the generations. On social mobility, both up and down, broken rules, abandonment, rebellion, convention and secrecy.
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Truly sad that boys had to stay in these homes when parents were alive and married , father out to sea and disappears. Three year old put in home.
These were not your normal orphanage. These were 'homes' which is why they had reunions and look back on their time there with such fondness. The idea of a home was in fact revolutionary. Clearly Grandad Cyril was one of the lucky few to end up here. As what was the alternative? A work house?
@Marcel_Audubon
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the alternative? staying with his mother in Hyde Park, of course! the floozy wanted him out of the way so she could find another sailor. Hyde Park is no slum, she coulda figured out a way to keep him.
We had an orphanage in our town in AUSTRALIA it was an awful place and also a BOYS HOME for children that had one or no parents
Throughout modern history "orphans" was a term used to denote children of unwed mothers, abandoned wives, impoverished families, as much as children who have lost both parents. Many were places of cruelty, neglect and suffering.
@laurabailey2152
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But what is highlighted here is that this was one of the early 'homes' this revolutionised how we care for vulnerable young people nowadays
Father pulled a runner
Malcolm reminds me of Doctor Who's Graham ^__^
So very sad for these children.
Thank you for the tour of Farningham School for Little Boys. My grandmother's brother was sent there - 1902 to 1908. He would have been there when the Old Boys photo was taken. Farningham participated in the British Home Children scheme to export unwanted children children to Canada, Australia and New Zealand as labour. My grandfather was at the Swanley Home for Little Boys next door to Farningham's. They were told that it was a great adventure and they signed up to go to Canada together on the same ship.
@alwp8758
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“An adventure…” that seems like a cruel way to downsize and a terrible lie and excuse for free labor. 😢 I can’t imagine how challenging that could have been.
@joycehelmers292
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I read story’s of children from England coming to Canada as labourers, many of the children were treated badly ,some went to good homes. It’s not taught in our history books only learned about theses poor children as an adult, I felt very ashamed as a Canadian that they were responsible for such horrible treatment of these small children.
@ekitten02
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I hope your grandfather and great-uncle had a good experience as labourers. It would be interesting to hear a bit more about it even if it wasn't happy. It is good for us to hear about the past.
@josephhapp9
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The book /movie “Sunshine and Oranges” describes the search for the truth about the export of unwanted ?? children to the distant shores of the Commonwealth. Not all sunshine.