Deep Pockets and Dirty Faces goes online!

We are excited to announce that the full version of our audio/visual piece for Deep Pockets and Dirty Faces is on our website for everyone to view.

The project now has a dedicated webpage on our Together Trust website, to allow us to share some of the amazing work our young people have been doing with the local community and beyond. As well as our audio/visual clip, we will be adding to this page as further work is completed. We hope people will enjoy watching them as much as we have enjoyed making them.   

In costume

As regular readers to this blog will know, this first piece revolves around the story of Susannah, an orphan from one of our Manchester Homes who emigrated across to Canada in the late nineteenth century. Alongside her story we also hear tales of other children who were in the care of the Manchester and Salford Boys’ and Girls’ Refuges and Homes at that time. It produces a story that shows different sides to childcare during this period, as well as different experiences in Canada.

George for example, entered the homes as an orphan aged 10 and emigrated in 1911. He worked for the same farmer for 6 years and was considered one of the family. Richard on the other hand never settled in his new home, had multiple places on different farms and eventually came back to Manchester.

As well as providing new skills to the young people involved in the project, our aim has always been to discover more about the history of this wonderful charity. We hope that the project will introduce more people to the work the Together Trust has partaken in, both in the past and today.