Thursday 7th June London
Miserable day again and after long day yesterday we got off
to a slow start. Lyndsay stayed at “home” (in our little hut on the 2nd
floor of hostel) and read/ napped/ played iPad etc and I put on my coat and
walked ( 30 min) to the London Metropolitan Archives where I was enrolled as a user and spent a couple of hours
searching microfilm of Bethnal Green Waterloo Work House for information about
my great- great grandfather Boyce who was admitted there in Feb 1891 and died
there later the same year. Ironic that at the same time as father was
languishing in the poor house his son was becoming a prominent and moderately
wealthy citizen on the other side of the world. Very similar to going to
Archives NZ in either Wellington or Auckland, very quiet and full of people
winding thru microfilm and looking at old documents laid out on cushions and
handled with white gloves.
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