William Ellis-Rees - The Tooting Tragedy ...with TRE's Selina MacKenzie
From Talk Radio Europe · 18:55
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In the early weeks of 1849, a devastating outbreak of cholera tore through Surrey Hall, a residential school for workhouse children in Lower Tooting. It was a tragedy on a terrible scale, and the loss of life owed much to the appalling conditions in the school, where half-starved boys and girls wearing threadbare clothes were crammed into filthy premises, and were kept in line by tyrannical adults. The owner, Bartholomew Peter Drouet, had been busily turning human misery into handsome profit, but now, in the wake of the tragedy, he found himself on trial at the Old Bailey on a charge of manslaughter.Catch Selina live - 'Lifestyles' Monday-Thursday from 14.00CET on tre.radio
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