Nora Isabel Adnams in Barkingside, Essex - between 1904 and June, 1911
from My memoirs of Dr. Barnardo's home , page 20:
[My] poor sister Elsie, there was a day when she was in trouble, so for punishment she had the whole lot of boots to clean on her own. Usually two of them did it between them, but would she let “Mother” [the matron of the Home] see she minded, not her, she sang away at the top of her voice, sixteen pairs of them and she was about ten years old.
Nora Isabel Adnams, My memoirs of Dr. Barnardo's home . In Brunel University Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiographies, number 2:859, p. 20. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1528785682753 accessed: 19 April, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composers| unspecified singing | performed by Elsie Brazier |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | between 1904 and June, 1911 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in private, indoors |
Notes
Nora Adnams and four of her nine siblings were placed in Barnardo’s Homes when the family was made destitute because her father suffered an injury that prevented him from working. She was three years old at the time (1904) and was returned to her family, along with her siblings, six years later.