MJ Maccardini (trailerfullofpix)'s photos with the keyword: foundling

Founder of the Foundling Hospital, the first home in London for abandoned children. See where this picture was taken.

Installation in the stairwell, made in conjunction with the exhibition Threads of Feeling at the Foundling Museum. All the ribbons came from V V Rouleaux, the ribbon shop in Marylebone. About the exhibition: "Threads of Feeling will showcase fabrics never shown before to illustrate the moment of parting as mothers left their babies at the original Foundling Hospital, which continues today as the children’s charity Coram. "In the cases of more than 4,000 babies left between 1741 and 1760, a small object or token, usually a piece of fabric, was kept as an identifying record. The fabric was either provided by the mother or cut from the child’s clothing by the hospital's nurses. Attached to registration forms and bound up into ledgers, these pieces of fabric form the largest collection of everyday textiles surviving in Britain from the 18th Century." See where this picture was taken.

Originally posted to Guess Where London group. Tokens in the pavement are reproductions (made by John Aldus) of items left by poor mothers with their babies when they were put into care in the Foundling Hospital. The mothers hoped that the tokens would enable them to identify their children, should their circumstances change and they be able to claim them again. Few were ever able. See where this picture was taken. [?]