tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26914786653819468772024-03-13T08:04:47.757-07:00Homeless History NewcastleAn HLF funded project working with the charity Crisis to explore the history of homelessness in Newcastle.Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-5245299231187315892020-03-03T05:43:00.003-08:002020-03-03T05:44:11.006-08:00Photograph of boys on parade on the deck of the Wellesley training ship c. 1900<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some charities offered shelter and education or practical training for homeless children in the 19<sup>th</sup></span><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> century. However, the majority of these were set up <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">specifically for
homeless boys. Exceptions included t</span>he Newcastle Ragged and Industrial School which accepted girls from 1849 and institutions such as the Northumberland Village
Homes for Girls (founded in 1880) which prepared homeless girls for a life in
domestic service.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">A lot of the institutions for boys were modelled on military
service. The Wellesley training ship offered homeless boys an education
that would equip them for a life at sea. <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 107%; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The ship was founded in 1868 and located on the Tyne
until it was destroyed by fire in 1914.</span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Archives (reference number 7146/13/114)</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-81983028890593890412020-03-03T04:57:00.001-08:002020-03-03T05:46:56.927-08:00Page from Newcastle Poor Law Union Workhouse punishment book, 1893<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This book details offences by ‘inmates’ at Newcastle
Workhouse and vagrants ward, ranging from assault and vandalism to being drunk
or tearing up clothes. The workhouse was a distressing and frustrating place
but the response to misbehaviour was extremely harsh and often resulted in a prison sentence.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Newcastle Workhouse was opened in 1839 on the
site of the current General Hospital. The idea at the time was that those in
poverty could be ‘punished’ out of ‘idleness’. For able-bodied people in
poverty their only option was to leave their home and enter the workhouse where
conditions were intentionally brutal, families were split up and inmates had to
work at menial tasks like stone-breaking. For people already homeless a
‘vagrants ward’ was set up in which conditions were even worse.</span></span><br />
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the name of ‘reception centres’ right up until 1985. In the below article from the
Newcastle Journal (6 October 1949) a reporter claims to have gone undercover to
find out what life was like in the reception centres. The piece is full of the
stereotypes and biases of the time.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></span><br />
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<br />Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-13098470231714420422020-03-03T04:53:00.000-08:002020-03-03T04:53:00.108-08:00‘Need behind bright lights’, Newcastle Journal, 5 September 1988
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Bridge Medical Centre was opened in 1980 to offer health
care to homeless people. The central location right on Newcastle’s Swing Bridge
made it accessible for homeless people across the city and the centre became a
lifeline for homeless people struggling to get help elsewhere. City
redevelopments of the 1990s forced the closure of the centre which later found
a home at the Joseph Cowen Health Centre in Byker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Many homeless people have found it hard to
access health services because of things like a lack of address or refusal of
treatment because of drug addictions. The strain of homelessness can be
damaging to people’s health and a lack of healthcare can trap people in a cycle
of homelessness and dependency.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-39393455327694699132020-03-03T04:50:00.003-08:002020-03-03T04:50:55.047-08:00Poster produced for Newcastle City Council’s ‘No need to beg’ campaign, 2015
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The ‘No need to beg’ campaign was launched by Newcastle City
Council in 2015 in response to problem begging and the concern that people who
beg are often fraudulent. The campaign emphasised the fact that most people
begging have drug addictions and that money they receive often goes to fuel
these. It received support for addressing the issues of addiction as well as backlash against its perceived
stigmatising message.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Addiction can be a cause and a result of
homelessness. Research shows that, of those experiencing homelessness, 48% of
people have faced drug dependency and 46% alcohol dependency. However, the
reasons why people develop addictions vary dramatically. Often addictions are
the result of the stress of homelessness, traumatic life events, or mental
health difficulties.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-12462068711423862642020-03-03T04:47:00.001-08:002020-03-03T04:47:30.147-08:00Page from the admissions book of Newcastle Ragged and Industrial School, 1860
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Newcastle Ragged and Industrial School was founded in 1847
by local philanthropists. Its objective was to rescue destitute boys and (from
1849) girls from ‘a life of ignorance and degradation’ by giving them food,
shelter and education. The admissions register listed each new arrival and
included a note on their circumstances. Most of the children at the school had
suffered family breakdown, violence or the death of a parent.</span><br />
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‘Mother dead. Father a tinker has no fixed abode’</span></i><br />
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Thomas Harper, ship carpen., Howdon, blames the boy’s step mother for having,
by her cruelty, driven the boy from home’</span></i><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Relationship and
family breakdown is still the most common reason that people give for being
homeless.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Between July 1940 and December 1941, a series of bombing
raids that became known as the Newcastle blitz left hundreds in the city dead
and injured and thousands more without a home. Following guidance from the
Ministry of Health, Newcastle Council set up ‘rest centres’ and printed this
pamphlet to give instructions on where to send people whose homes had been
destroyed to receive support, food and healthcare.</span><br />
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house people from London and the South of England, ‘evacuated on account of the
flying bomb menace’.</span></span><br />
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<br />Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-53579021888619310192020-03-02T08:33:00.006-08:002020-03-02T15:20:45.038-08:00Report by the Medical Officer of Health on Sellar’s & Mill Entries on Sandgate, 19th August 1895<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>
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the late 19<sup>th</sup> century concerns began to arise about the condition of
slum housing in towns and cities across Britain. Following the Housing of the
Working Classes Act 1890, local authorities such as Newcastle began
investigating the conditions in slums. This report by City Medical Officer,
Henry Armstrong, gives details of the slum housing on ‘Sellar’s Entry’ near
Newcastle’s Quayside. The report gives names and details of residents as well
as details of the rooms they occupy such as ‘back wall damp, chimney leaning
over, ceiling of upstairs room wet from defective roof’.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-23183446668862606062020-03-02T08:33:00.005-08:002020-03-02T15:19:20.220-08:00Photograph showing 3 Bulls’ Heads lodging house, Sandgate c. 1871-1880<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the 19th century one of the few options for people
without a home was to find the money to stay at a common lodging house like
this one (building on the corner behind the two men). Conditions were often appalling and rooms overcrowded:</span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">‘the room was very
dirty; it was 9 feet broad by 15 feet long… in which slept two men, four women,
and thirteen children. I found in one of the beds two children very ill of
scarlet fever; in another, a child ill of the measles; in another, a child that
had died of the measles the day before.’</span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">(quote from a health official describing a Newcastle lodging house, 1842)</span><br />
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lodging houses but they’re impact was minimal. Lodging houses were still in use
by the 1930s.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We found this photograph in Newcastle City Library, Historic Photographs Collection</span></div>
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: white;"></span><span style="background-color: black;"></span><br />Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-28919024390785306982020-03-02T08:33:00.004-08:002020-03-02T15:19:02.898-08:00Single persons guide to temporary accommodation in Newcastle and Gateshead, published by Tyneside Housing Aid Centre, 1998<br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This guide was published to help single homeless people find
accommodation and understand their rights. It gave information on where to look
for accommodation, what to ask, and how to deal with problems and harassment.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">People who are homeless, unmarried and without
children have long struggled to get access to support. The Housing (Homeless
Persons) Reduction Act 1977 legally defined homelessness but, unlike families,
single people weren’t seen as in need of support. Lots of organisations raised
concerns about the experiences and living conditions of single homeless people.
The 2017 Homelessness Reduction Act makes it compulsory for councils to
assist all homeless people.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We found this pamphlet in the <span style="display: inline; float: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Local Studies Collection at </span>Newcastle City Library</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: white;"><span style="background-color: black;">The first soup kitchen in Newcastle was set up in 1812.
People needed a ticket to use it and the wealthy people who donated the money
decided who got these. Anyone who didn’t have a ticket didn’t get fed. The soup
kitchen was reopened on and off over the next few decades and, since then,
various other organisations have been set up in Newcastle to help homeless
people get food.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For anyone homeless, managing to feed yourself
can be a constant problem. Food poverty doesn’t just affect homeless people but
is a growing problem for other people with low or unstable income. In recent
years, the rise in the number of people using foodbanks has been described as a
national crisis.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We found this minute book at Tyne and Wear archives under ref. CHX3/1/2</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In 2016 Newcastle City Council proposed a new ‘Public Space
Protection Order’ that would give police power to fine people seen begging or sleeping
rough in the city centre. The proposed PSPO (which covered a range of other
anti-social behaviours like drinking and drug taking) led to a debate around
whether rough sleeping and begging should be seen as anti-social offences or
acts of need. A protest march against the PSPO was organised by the local Green
Party.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After a long public consultation the council
opted to change the PSPO and drop the reference to rough sleeping. It still
covers begging in the city centre.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-72014995126315637262020-03-02T07:17:00.002-08:002020-03-02T07:18:36.531-08:00Newcastle Gaol record for Sabina Forbes written on her release, 1873<br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In 19<sup>th</sup>
century Britain little was done to understand and document the lives and
experiences of people who didn’t have a home. People with criminal convictions,
however, were recorded in detail, even if their only convictions were for being
homeless or ‘vagrant’. While records like this can give us names and even
photographs of people we know to have been homeless, the lack of other
information can alter our perception of their lives and character.</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Victorians didn’t see much historical value
in records like this. Most of the records of the inmates at Newcastle Gaol were
destroyed when the prison was demolished, with only some of those for the year
1873 surviving.</span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-21125956077318248072020-03-02T06:37:00.001-08:002020-03-02T06:43:19.958-08:00Postcard with a photograph of Thomas Ferens (aka ‘Tommy on the Bridge’) on Newcastle’s Swing Bridge, c. 1900<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #b00000; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: small;"></span><br /></span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Blind
and partially paralysed, Thomas Ferens spent his life begging as a means to get
by. In his spot on Newcastle’s Swing Bridge he became known as one of the
sights of Newcastle. He was written about in newspaper articles across the
country and appeared on picture postcards, such as this one. Many photographs
of Thomas survive and newspaper articles describe how he looked, dressed, and
spoke, but despite this we know very little about his life.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We found this postcard in the local studies photographic collection at Newcastle City Library</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">If you want to know more about Thomas Ferens then take a look at our blogpost: <a href="https://homelesshistorynewcastle.blogspot.com/p/the-life-of-thomas-ferens-what-can-one.html">https://homelesshistorynewcastle.blogspot.com/p/the-life-of-thomas-ferens-what-can-one.html</a></span></span>Homeless History Newcastlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18301031190039883338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2691478665381946877.post-76969141961654812312020-03-02T06:14:00.001-08:002020-03-02T06:30:28.539-08:00Warrant for the Removal of Margaret Adams and her four children from their home of Newcastle to Belfast in February 1857<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Under
the archaic laws of settlement, people in poverty like Margaret Adams could be
forcibly returned to their place of birth – in this case Belfast. Margaret had
lived in Newcastle for 14 years and had four children but was made homeless
after the death of her husband. This document gives an insight into the
Victorian laws used to restrict the movements of poor and homeless people. The
records also tell us about who was targeted – quite often women with children
as they were seen to be a financial burden.</span></span><br />
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course of the 20<sup>th</sup> century much more was done to understand
homelessness and to gather information about homeless people. Counts like this
which aim to collect information on people sleeping rough now frequently take
place in cities across Britain. However, most of the information we have about
homelessness since the mid-20<sup>th</sup> century is statistical and can’t
offer a lot of insight into individual lives and experiences.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We found this document in the local studies collection at Newcastle City Library</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our understanding of the past is shaped by historical records. But what do we do when trying to understand the history of something like homelessness, about which there is little written evidence?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The sad fact is that most people who faced homelessness in the past have gone unrecorded and often unremembered. The records of institutions such as workhouses and charities, that could have offered evidence of people's lives and existences, </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">have often been seen as unimportant and many have been lost or destroyed. As a result, we have lots of information on the wealthy and powerful in history but very little on the lives of the most vulnerable in society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The evidence that remains is fragmentary. It’s up to us to uncover these fragments and give voice to the people who have been forgotten.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This website presents a selection of items relating to the history of homelessness in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne. We aim to find out what they can tell us about homeless lives past and present. Some items tell a personal story. Others give a glimpse into homeless experience or reveal wider attitudes towards homelessness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All of these items were originally uncovered by the <a href="https://homelesshistorynewcastle.blogspot.com/p/about-homeless-history-of-newcastle.html">Homeless History of Newcastle project</a>. If you have any items or images you would like to add to the website then please email <a href="mailto:homelesshistorynewcastle@gmail.com">homelesshistorynewcastle@gmail.com</a>.</span><br />
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