By Allan Cornford
Copyright © 2022 Allan Cornford. (Standard Copyright License.) All rights reserved. Independently Published through KDP. The images which are included for informative purposes only, are Screenshots, courtesy of Ewaranon’s YouTube documentary; ‘The Lost History of the Flat Earth’. All external links to images in the public domain, are courtesy from Wikimedia Commons and where possible, credits are given to each source. This I believe, comes under the term of Fair Use.
Officially, the time of the Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in:
- Great Britain
- continental Europe
- the United States
in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
On their website, ‘Stolen History’ notes that; During the course of industrialization during the 19th century, far-reaching social changes occurred in the Western world.
The extent of these changes has not yet been adequately understood.
Aspects such as rural flight, mass impoverishment, orphanages, lack of hygiene in the cities and related epidemics are known in historical research, but these are only the effects of the Industrial Revolution.
A more elusive topic has been the question what caused the massive technological upheavals of the 19th century.
So far, the two most important questions have not been answered sufficiently:
Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England, and why precisely around 1800?
If you break it down to its essence, the Industrial Revolution consisted of ground-breaking technological inventions that permanently changed social life and enabled increasing automation of production.
In particular, the development of the steam engine supposedly laid the foundation for the further development of electric and internal combustion engines, which form the foundation of today’s society.
The Industrial Revolution presents us with a conundrum. In terms of the official narrative, humanity bumbled along at a low state of development for thousands of years, only to suddenly undergo a massive leap in development within a few decades without any apparent external cause.
To make matters even more absurd, since the end of the industrial age, mankind has again found itself in a period of technological stagnation – the supposed inventive spirit of Central Europe and Germany in particular, which historians say made industrialization possible, seems to have vanished.
Unofficially, the 19th and early 20th century was a time of transition from the old world into the modern era.
The old technology based on free energy was gradually being phased out and replaced with the controlled release of technologies which rely on scarce and hard-to get resources, allowing the ruling powers to gain a monopoly on the energy supply and the production of goods.
At the same time, thousands of old world buildings were being repurposed or demolished.
This time period roughly corresponds with what is termed the ”Age of Enlightenment”, which officially ended in 1815.
The year 1816 was cold, wet, stormy and dark.
It was the worst summer in living memory at that time, and not at all like typical summer weather.
Consequently, 1816 became known in Europe and North America as ‘The Year Without a Summer.’
Whether the year 1816 is relevant or not, I don’t know, but it occurred just a few years before the Industrial Revolution began to reach a close.
We’re told that the year without a summer was due to the massive volcanic eruption the previous year, of Mount Tambora in Indonesia.
The sheer volume of volcanic ash particles ejected high into the stratosphere was so great, it caused average temperatures across the world to drop by three degrees Celsius.
This resulted in major crop failures due to frost and lack of sunshine, causing severe food shortages, especially across Europe, the United States and Canada.
(Adapted in part from UCAR; Center for Science Education.)
1816 was the year Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, a horror novel set in an often cold, bleak and stormy environment.
Richard Rothwell’s portrait of Shelley was shown at the Royal Academy in 1840, accompanied by lines from Percy Shelley’s poem The Revolt of Islam calling her a “child of love and light”
It was also the year Lord Byron wrote the poem Darkness, which begins with:
“I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
The bright sun was extinguish’d.”
Miles Williams Mathis: From Daisy Ridley to Lord Byron & Everyone in Between – Library of Rickandria
It would seem that Lord Byron’s dream, which was not all a dream, was based upon his own personal experience.
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet. He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest poets of the United Kingdom. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.
Over roughly the same time period, there was a seemingly rapid and unexplained increase in the numbers of folk suffering from serious mental health issues, along with various other emotional or spiritual afflictions (including Epilepsy) across:
- Great Britain
- Continental Europe
- the USA
A 291-page report published in 1844 by The Lunacy Commission of England and Wales, records the seriousness of the problem, and labels the majority of those afflicted as being ”Pauper lunatics.”
Often referred to as ”harmless idiots” many of these poor unfortunate souls were ”farmed out”, if not to a willing family member, then to local peasants and small farmers, in exchange for a weekly allowance.
This was the origin of the term, ”to farm out”.
According to the 1844 Welsh Report (p.11 /North Wales)
The condition of a considerable proportion of the pauper lunatics boarded or farmed out is bad, in many cases most miserable, and in nearly all such as to deprive them of the means or probability of cure by medical treatment.
For some afflicted with Epilepsy, or deemed to be harmful to others at times, a form of restraint was often required.
The amount of restraint used was left to the discretion of the people the sufferer boarded with.
This, and the lack of supervision, resulted in some atrocious cases. (1844 Welsh Report, p.59.)
Ann Abney of Buith near Bangor, for example:
had been kept chained in the house of a married daughter, and, from having been long kept down in a crouching posture, her knees were forced up to her chin, and she sat wholly upon her hips and her heels, and much excoriation was caused upon her chest and stomach by her knees when she moved.
She could move about with velocity and was almost always maniacal.
When she died [in Hereford Lunatic Asylum on 30.1.1844], it required very considerable dissection to get her pressed into a coffin.
The old census forms from 1851 in England have a section listing if anyone in the household is
- Imbecile or idiot
- Lunatic
so they differentiated between them somehow.
Public mental asylums were established in Britain after the passing of the 1808 County Asylums Act.
County Asylums Act 1808 – Wikipedia
This empowered magistrates to build rate-supported asylums in every county to house the many ‘pauper lunatics’.
Nine counties first applied, and the first public asylum opened in 1812 in Nottinghamshire, known as the Nottingham General Lunatic Asylum.
The facility initially accommodated 80 patients, but as demand for places increased additional facilities were required, and it became necessary to augment capacity by establishing the Coppice Lunatic Hospital in 1859 and the Mapperley Asylum in 1880.
According to Wikipedia, the foundation stone of the Nottingham Lunatic Asylum was laid on 31 May 1810 and the first patients were admitted in February 1812.
(Old print showing The General Lunatic Asylum near Nottingham circa 1820. Author unknown.)
I know Wikipedia is far from infallible and it may be a genuine mistake, but why claim the hospital was built in less than 2 years?
Early engravings, sketches and paintings show it was a massive, well weathered and impressive 3 story building with a row of eight individual chimney stacks, plus a basement level below ground.
Set in its own park-like surroundings with a fancy flight of steps leading up to the grand entrance, it appears far more like a stately residence than a hospital.
Even today such a magnificent structure couldn’t possibly be built in a couple of years, as was supposedly the case in 1810.
The same is true of Nottingham’s Coppice and Mapperley Asylums, which complete with towers, cupolas and distinctive Renaissance characteristics, were built in the Italianate style.
In fact, the same is true of pretty much all of the 128 Lunatic Asylums that were established in the UK over the course of the nineteenth century.
The majority of which have since been razed to the ground.
The Victorian era was a time of hardship and deprivation for the average family, and even young children were often expected to work.
Yet we also see such over-the-top extravagance.
Time and again, these two conflicting stories of poverty and exorbitance appear in the same narrative during the Victorian era.
Why were such a large number of huge, elaborate and no expense spared, mansions erected as Lunatic Asylums in the horse-drawn carriage, Victorian era?
They weren’t. Like the majority of the lunatic asylums in Britain, these grand buildings were more likely inherited, renovated and repurposed structures dating back to the previous era.
Between the passing of the Lunatic Asylums Act in 1845 and 1890, when the next act was passed, over sixty asylums were built and opened in London.
A further forty were subsequently constructed.
Some people in prominent positions founded organizations with the aim of helping people find their way out of poverty and deplorable living conditions.
At the same time providing the bare minimum of worthy or unworthy charitable aid.
This was also around the same time when the sale of alcoholic beverages became more widely available to the general public.
Introduced primarily as a coping mechanism maybe?
Unfortunately, for many, lunatic asylums were regarded as prisons disguised as hospitals.
It was a convenient way for the ‘controllers’ to remove the poor and incurable from society and for those with money, private madhouses were often convenient dumping grounds for unwanted wives.
It was also a convenient way for governments to rid society of those they considered troublemakers and dissidents.
Although many patients were admitted for short periods of time, there are plenty of horror stories of patients who were admitted to asylums, often for very unsatisfactory reasons, and basically locked up and forgotten about.
Some could spend twenty or more years locked away, and sadly an unnecessary high number of patients died without ever being released.
No doubt many are familiar with the abundance of horror stories concerning the deplorable conditions and the horrific treatment of patients in mental asylums.
Reports of patients being abused, poorly fed and beaten, left chained in outhouses without heating, and wallowing in filth for years, are sadly not uncommon.
America A similar pattern was unfolding in America.
According to Dr. Benjamin Rush, the “father of American Psychiatry,” asylums in the US went from having a couple of hundred patients to thousands.
Dr. Benjamin Rush (January 4, 1746 [O.S. December 24, 1745] – April 19, 1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social reformer, humanitarian, educator, and the founder of Dickinson College. Rush was a Pennsylvania delegate to the Continental Congress.
In the 1820’s, on average, 57 patients were admitted to each asylum.
In the 1870’s, that number rose to 473.
(Credit: Wikipedia)
Again, these massive institutional buildings were seemingly erected in a relatively short space of time and apparently with no expense spared.
The New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica for example, which opened on January 16, 1843.
The Utica Psychiatric Center, also known as Utica State Hospital, opened in Utica on January 16, 1843. It was New York’s first state-run facility designed to care for the mentally ill, and one of the first such institutions in the United States. It was originally called the New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica. The Greek Revival structure was designed by Captain William Clarke and its construction was funded by the state and by contributions from Utica residents.
With its grand entrance supported by six 48 feet tall columns each 8 feet in diameter, the structure itself stands over 50 feet (15m) high, 550 feet (170m) long, and nearly 50 feet (15m) in depth.
This architectural marvel which resembled the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, and was constructed in the Greek Revival style, was known as the ‘The Old Main’.
Yet again, we are left to ponder on the deliberate but unnecessary extravagance?
Not in the least because much of the Old Main was destroyed by fire in 1852 through an act of arson, just nine years after construction.
Needless to say, demolition of the grand entrance building soon followed.
Founded, so we’re told in 1838, the Columbus State Hospital, also known as the Lunatic Asylum of Ohio, was said to have been the largest building in the U.S. or the world, until the Pentagon was completed in 1943.
Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, Ohio, founded in 1838 and rebuilt in 1877. The hospital was constructed under the Kirkbride Plan.
(Credit: Wikipedia)
This massive, remodeled old world structure, complete with:
- domes
- towers
- antennae
was destroyed by fire in 1868.
Much like stories that emerged in Britain, the Utica asylum, among others, was said to have staff members that performed lobotomies and electroshock therapy quite regularly on patients.
Over the years, stories of deplorable living conditions were told, with many claiming that the patients who resided here received hardly any care and were left confined in small quarters.
It wasn’t until the horrific conditions at these mental health facilities were exposed through undercover investigations and a number of patient witnesses, that they were finally brought to light.
Foundlings Oddly enough, 112 this rapid and in the main unexplained explosion of severe mental health, emotional and spiritual issues afflicting so many folks in Britain and America in the mid 19th-century, roughly corresponds with the time period when millions of orphans seem to have mysteriously appeared worldwide, almost as if out of thin air.
There are a number of given reasons for this, such as:
- poverty
- disease
- overcrowding
in the home, babes born out of wedlock, the death of a parent etc.
Although each of these reasons are certainly valid, even collectively, they really don’t seem to justify the massive and almost overnight increase in the number of orphans.
In 1834, the British Government introduced ‘The New Poor Act’ which ended parish relief for unmarried mothers and allowed fathers of illegitimate children to avoid paying for child support.
Unmarried mothers then received little assistance, and the poor were left with no other option, than to enter the workhouse, or prostitution.
This harsh treatment inflicted on single mothers, coupled with the social stigma attached, forced many to give up their child to the local authorities.
Maternal instinct apart, there was certainly no incentive for women to become pregnant at the time.
According to ‘Statista’, the child mortality rate in Britain at the time for children under the age of five, was 329 deaths per thousand births.
This means that approximately one in every three children born in the mid 1800’s did not make it to their fifth birthday.
I’ve no wish to appear heartless, but in the cold light of day, without this high 33% mortality rate, the overall number of orphans would likely have been exceedingly higher.
Thus, it should come as no particular surprise that many of the most memorable characters in 19th century literature, turn out to be orphans.
- Oliver Twist
- David Copperfield
- Pip Pirrip
- Jane Eyre
- Heathcliff
- Catherine Earnshaw
- Jude Fawley
and Tom Sawyer are just some of the many well-known literary characters in the Victorian era.
Wrote Charles Dickens in an extract from his nineteenth century novel, ‘Little Dorrit’; …the originator of the Institution for these poor foundlings having been a blessed creature of the name of Coram, we gave that name to Pet’s little maid.
At one time she was Tatty, and at one time she was Coram and now she is always Tattycoram.
It’s historically recognized that the former sea farer, Thomas Coram (c.1668-March 29, 1751), having frequently been shocked by the sight of infants exposed in the streets of London, often in a dying state, was responsible for the original foundling hospitals.
Captain Thomas Coram (c. 1668 – 29 March 1751) was an English sea captain and philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in Lamb’s Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury, to look after abandoned children on the streets of London. It is said to be the world’s first incorporated charity.
After 17 years of tireless campaigning, Thomas Coram finally received a Royal Charter from King George II in 1739, enabling him to establish the Bloomsbury Foundling Hospital in 1741, to care for and educate some of London’s most vulnerable children.
The Foundling Hospital (formally the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children) was a children’s home in London, England, founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram.
Coram first obtained a lease on a property in Hatton Garden that could take 30 vulnerable infants.
On 25 March 1741, the first babies at risk of abandonment were admitted to the institution’s temporary home.
Illegitimate infants had to be under 12 months of age, and were admitted after the mother had been interviewed and deemed to meet the criteria set out by the hospital.
Once they had been accepted, children were registered, often under a new identity, and were sent to live with a ‘nurse’ or foster family in the country.
When they reached four or five years of age, children were sent to live at the Foundling Hospital in London where they received schooling until they were 15 years old, and then were apprenticed, usually to work in domestic or military service.
For in the meanwhile, Thomas Coram had purchased a 56-acre site in Bloomsbury, London, from the Earl of Salisbury.
The building we’re told was designed by architect Theodore Jacobsen, and we’re told the founding stone of the new purpose-built Bloomsbury Foundling Hospital, which was surrounded by fields, was laid in September 1742.
Theodore Jacobsen (died 1772) was an English merchant in London, known also as an architect.
Thus far I’ve been unable to find any information regarding the construction of the Foundling Hospital, not even from the UK Government National Archives.
There are numerous engravings, sketches and paintings of the original building available, however.
Like many other orphanages at the time, this palatial building with its elaborate architecture, and set in its own sumptuous, park-like surroundings, was visually stunning.
Again, why such over the top extravagance?
Quite frankly, there is no way this massive building was constructed over a couple of years as the narrative suggests.
Such extraordinary buildings constructed in the alleged given time period, only make some sort of sense if they already existed.
Yet another example of old world structures being inherited, restored and redefined maybe, this time to meet the growing orphan crisis?
From 1741 when the first babies were admitted, to 1954 when the last pupil was placed in foster care, the Foundling Hospital cared for and educated around 25,000 children.
Why did well over 20,000 mothers hand over their children to this one foundling home alone?
Was something else going on at the time?
Did the government need vast numbers of young children for the purpose of relocating them to other countries?
An international repopulation program? Is this why Europe sent millions of orphans and young children to other countries, primarily America?
And that’s just the sanitized version, for stories of cruelty and abuse surrounding these orphanages are as abundant as those surrounding the mental health institutions.
John Lennon’s ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, where ‘‘nothing is real” and ”living is easy with eyes closed” refers to the Salvation Army Orphanage, ‘Strawberry Field‘ in Liverpool, which closed down after seventy years of child abuse.
Wikipedia lists 143 orphanages founded in the UK during the 19th century, and the list is only partial.
Like ‘Strawberry Fields’, virtually all have since closed down or been demolished.
As to have the hundreds of lunatic asylums.
By comparison, Irish born philanthropist Thomas John Barnardo, founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children, took a more modest approach, by adopting the ‘cottage homes’ model.
Thomas John Barnardo (4 July 1845 – 19 September 1905) was an Irish, Christian philanthropist and founder and director of homes for poor and deprived children. From the foundation of the first Barnardo’s home in 1867 to the date of Barnardo’s death, nearly 60,000 children had been taken in. Although Barnardo never finished his studies at the London Hospital, he used the title of ‘doctor’ and later secured a licentiate.
He believed that children could be best supported if they were living in small, family-style groups looked after by a house ‘mother’.
By 1900, the Barkingside ‘garden village’ had 65 cottages, a school, a hospital and a church, which provided a home and training, to 1,500 girls.
From the foundation of the homes in 1867 to the date of Barnardo’s death (19 September 1905) nearly 60,000 children had been taken in, most being trained and placed out in life.
At the time of his death, his charity was caring for over 8,500 children in 96 homes.
(Credit: Wikipedia)
Orphan Trains
Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, America was experiencing a similar phenomena.
New York city had 4 foundling hospitals that processed thousands of children annually.
The American Civil War is said to have resulted in the need for even more orphanages with an estimated 400 thousand children needing placement.
The Orphan Asylum Society was established in New York City by philanthropists, Isabella Graham and Elizabeth Hamilton on March 15, 1806, and the cornerstone of their first orphanage in Greenwich Village was laid on July 7, 1807.
According to village preservation.org, in 1835 the Orphan Asylum Society purchased land in the Bloomingdale village, on Seventy Fourth Street, where the construction of a new asylum began immediately, and was concluded in 1837.
Now, I realize an artist’s impression cannot be taken as evidence, but nevertheless, an old, colorful wood carving of this orphanage, shows the impossibility of it being constructed within a couple of years.
(Credit; Lossing & Barritt (Wood engraver)
A magnificent central structure with 3 huge arched windows set above the main entrance, and a 4 story wing attached to either side, each having 12 front windows.
Four towering stone columns, which neatly divide each section of the building, add the finishing touch.
Although not a builder myself, if this carving is true to detail, there’s no way it could have been constructed in two years.
Even today with a mini JCB to excavate the footings and dig out the trenches, instal the drainage and plumbing, with ready mixed concrete delivered on site, a huge 4-towered, 4 story building of such finery and splendor, could not be achieved in 2 years.
Ask anyone in the construction industry; such a task completed within a couple of years would be impossible.
Old world structures on both sides of the Atlantic, were being repurposed as Lunatic Asylums and Orphanages; the same being true for Canada, Australia, and right across Europe.
In 1850, we’re told there was an estimated number of up to 30,000 homeless, orphaned or abandoned children in New York City alone.
At the time, New York City’s population was only 500,000.
(Warren, Andrea. ”The Orphan Train”, Washington Post, 1998)
It’s not easy to find a logical explanation as to why 6% of a city’s entire population should be homeless or orphaned children.
Or even why they were relocated in the first place.
The Orphan Train Movement was the brainchild of American philanthropist, Charles Loring Brace, who in 1853 founded the Children’s Aid Society.
Largely funded by the Astor family, Brace’s infamous Orphan Train Movement was a supervised welfare program that transported children from crowded Eastern cities of the United States to foster homes located largely in rural areas of the Midwest.
Not all were orphaned or abandoned however, some were the children of newly arrived immigrants, or the children of the poorest and most destitute families living in these cities.
Wrote one reporter in an article for the New York Daily Tribune, (Wednesday, January 21, 1880);
“No mother’s tears were shed over the departing waifs, no father’s counsel was given to the boys who were about to enter upon a new life.”
That new life began for hundreds of thousands of children, many of them babies, when they were dressed in new clothes, given a Bible, and placed in the care of Children’s Aid Society agents, who then accompanied them west on trains called ‘orphan trains’ or ‘mercy trains.’
Safeguards were put in place for lip service, but the reality was there were only a small handful of agents to monitor thousands of placements.
Accompanied by CAS agent, E. P. Smith, the first group of 45 children arrived in Dowagiac, in the state of Michigan, on October 1, 1854.
Stopping at various cities along the way, the children had travelled for days in uncomfortable conditions.
(Credit: Wikipedia)
Officially there were 97 institutions involved with orphans and the orphan trains.
The Children’s Aid Society sent an average of 3,000 children via train each year from 1855 to 1875.
Orphan trains were sent to 45 states, as well as Canada and Mexico.
Whether true or not I wouldn’t know, but there are even stories of babies and young children being shipped from state to state via the Postal Service.
With some journeys lasting several days, young children were transported right across the country, where they stopped at various cities, each having posters on display, announcing the arrival of the orphan train.
When the train stopped, many children went to live with families that had placed orders beforehand, specifying age, gender, and hair and eye color.
Writes Andrea Warren in an article for the Washington Post, (1998.)
Few children understood what was happening at the time, but once they did, their reactions ranged from delight at finding a new family, to anger and resentment at being ”placed out” when they had relatives back home.
The rest of the children were effectively paraded into the local hall or other venue designated as the “place of distribution.”
A polite way of saying a cattle market perhaps?
For according to Sara Jane Richter, professor of history at Oklahoma Panhandle State University, the children often had unpleasant experiences.
“People came along and prodded them, and looked, and felt, and saw how many teeth they had.”
Press accounts conveyed the almost auction-like atmosphere, such as The Daily Independent of Grand Island, NE, which in May 1912 reported:
”Some ordered boys, others girls, some preferred light babies, others dark, and the orders were filled out properly and every new parent was delighted.”
Babies were easiest to place but finding homes for children older than 14 was always difficult because of concern that they were too set in their ways or might have bad habits.
Children who were physically or mentally disabled or sickly were difficult to find homes for.
Although many siblings were sent out together on orphan trains, prospective parents could choose to take a single child, separating siblings.
(Credit: Wikipedia)
It should be noted that these children were placed with complete strangers, the majority of whom I’m sure, were good and honest folk who welcomed them into their homes.
Nevertheless, these children were taken in by strangers with little or no accountability.
Personally, I would think there’s quite a thin line between a noble cause for a child’s sake, and free child labor for the sake of the unscrupulous.
There are many disturbing accounts surrounding this relocation scheme of course, and even at the age of 7 or 8 some of the children reported to have no memories prior to arriving at their destination, not even who their parents were.
Had they been severely traumatized in their infant years? In this manner, more than 250,000 orphan children were dispersed throughout the United States between 1854 and 1929 when the program ended.
Around the same time period, Italy was reporting 32,000 foundling children per year, with Spain and Portugal reporting15,000.
Before 1860, 374,000 foundling children were processed through the asylum system in Milan, Naples, and Florence alone.
Historian, David L. Ransel reported, that in the 1880’s,
”Moscow was receiving 16 to 18 thousand infants annually and sending 10 thousand to outlying villages each year for care.”
He wrote;
In 1882 there were all told 41,720 foundlings from the Moscow home living with 32,000 families scattered throughout 4,418 villages.
A dozen villages had over 90 fosterings each.
Home Children
During the 1860’s the British Government dealt with the surplus of orphans and unwanted children in their own wicked and scandalous way.
‘Home Children’ was the child migration scheme founded by the infamous Annie MacPherson in 1869, under which more than 100,000 children were forcibly relocated to Canada and New Zealand, but mainly to Australia.
It wasn’t unusual for these poor unsuspecting children to be lied to by the authorities and told that their parent or parents had died.
Deported children were promised a better life in the sun, but instead they got hard labor and life in institutions such as Keaney College in Bindoon, Western Australia.
Many were handed over to the Congregation of Christian Brothers, where they were used for hard labor and suffered years of physical and sexual abuse.
This wicked agenda called ”home children” was finally exposed one hundred years later by Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham.
Margaret Humphreys, CBE, AO (born 1944) is a British social worker and author from Nottingham, England. She worked for Nottinghamshire County Council operating around Radford, Nottingham and Hyson Green in child protection and adoption services. In 1986, she received a letter from a woman in Australia who, believing she was an orphan, was looking to locate her birth certificate so she could get married.
The acclaimed 2010 Australian drama, ‘Sunshine and Oranges’ is based on her true story.
Australia apologized in 2009 for its involvement in the scheme.
In February 2010, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown followed suit, and made a formal apology to the families of children who suffered.
Were the British Government sorry for playing their part in causing so much grief for so many families? I very much doubt it.
Just like Boris Johnson and his illegal Lockdown Christmas Parties, they were sorely peeved because they got caught out.
Some researchers estimate that the equivalent of an entire generation of English youth was relocated.
Is it possible that the government’s justification for their underhand agenda of stealing children, was for the purpose of repopulating certain areas of the Earth?
If so, what happened just as the time period known as ‘The Age of Enlightenment’ had drawn to a close?
Or has the timeline been inverted?
Were these disturbing and surrealistic events occurring just as humanity was entering the Dark Age?
For the Industrial Revolution in the Western world, coupled with the ever-increasing number of folk suffering from severe mental health issues, and the emerging orphan crisis, ran parallel with other strange phenomena; one of which being, the largely unexplained waves of mass migration.
CONTINUE
BOOK: EXCERPT: Tartarian Rule? Or Millennial Kingdom? – Strange Phenomena – Library of Rickandria
BOOK: Tartarian Rule? Or Millennial Kingdom? – Library of Rickandria
BOOK: EXCERPT: Tartarian Rule? Or Millennial Kingdom? – The Insane & the Orphan