Explore Your Archive - round up January to May 2020
As promised we return to share our Explore Your Archive tweets for the year so far , so you can explore our archive.
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Young Men's Institute
I came across this picture in the archive the other day. Young Men’s Institute football team, 1917 It shows the Young Men’s Institute football squad from 1917 posing for a team photograph. It seems a relevant topic to talk about seen as we’re currently in the middle of the 2014 world cup. The Young Men’s Institute at this time catered for boys of working age who had no permanent residence to go to. It housed 35 young men and was largely made up by those who in early life had passed through the Refuge. Each youth had full board, a separate cubicle, use of a comfortable sitting room, news room, games room, bathroom and gymnasium at a cost of 10 shillings per week.
The joys of football
With the excitement of the London Olympics and Euro 2012 , the summer has been filled with sporting achievement. There’s not really been time to sit back and relax however, as barely a week after the closing ceremony of the Olympics the football season kicked off again. As one friend commented "We now have something to live for again". The nation’s sport frustrates and thrills in equals measure. Football at the Summer Camp, c.1920s
