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Hull, this week we are in Blackburn. We will be finding out about the | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
remarkable record of a past that has turned up in a local seller. | :00:17. | :00:25. | |
Tonight: A special investigation into elderly care. They said they | :00:26. | :00:30. | |
were far too busy to give my father a bath. I used to have to insist | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
that it was not enough. We search for alternative ways of providing | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
care for the elderly without relying on the state. It has been | :00:41. | :00:50. | |
amazing and has given me my life back. Rediscover long-lost archive | :00:50. | :00:59. | |
of a Lancashire orphanage. There is always stuff down here. This looks | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
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The ageing society is something that affects us all. And, as we get | :01:26. | :01:30. | |
older, many of us are choosing to be cared for in our own homes. But | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
the cost of providing this care is coming under increasing pressure. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
In a special investigation, Jacey Normand discovers a homecare system | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
in crisis - and that things could get worse as further spending cuts | :01:38. | :01:47. | |
The local authorities in our region have responsibility for providing | :01:47. | :01:54. | |
elderly home care. 87% of this is now supplied by private companies. | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
We investigated the home care system and found care workers under | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
pressure, families receiving poor quality care and the body in charge | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
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of inspections failing to do their The whole system is a lot worse | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
than what it's ever been. It's an embarrassment to us as carers. It's | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
going down and down and not getting any better. They're putting profit | :02:17. | :02:27. | |
before people, we just can't do this much longer. Elderly home care | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
in the UK is regulated by the CQC - the Care Quality commission. We | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
looked at their inspections for last year Of the 940 home care | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
providers in our region, only 338 were actually inspected. That means | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
two-thirds of home care providers have not been adequately assessed | :02:40. | :02:47. | |
and approved to look after our elderly relatives. We found | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
numerous examples of homecare agencies in the region that had | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
failed to carry out proper criminal records checks or failed to provide | :02:52. | :02:59. | |
adequate training for its staff. One company was even found to be | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
employing criminals to look after the elderly. Also, six of these | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
agencies had no follow-up inspection by the CQC after these | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
initial failures were identified. The body that represents care | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
workers is the UK Home Care Association. A third of the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
providers being inspected is disappointing. The Care Quality | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
Commission is the regulator and should be a safeguard for all of us | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
that registered home care providers are operating to standard, but at | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
the end of the day it is the responsibility of the individual | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
provider to make sure their services are of an acceptable | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
standard - and to raise any problems with the local authority | :03:36. | :03:46. | |
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if it is simply to do with funding. We asked the CQC why they haven't | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
carried out vital checks they claim they'll do on their website. They | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
refused to give an interview but they did say... That said they only | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
announced it would be inspecting home care agencies once a year in | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
April this year. As we are only half way through the year, some | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
providers will not have had an inspection yet. We asked them about | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
the service providers in the North West who had failed their checks | :04:10. | :04:12. | |
and still had not been reinspected. They said... Inspections are not | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
the only way we check an agency has complied with standards and follow- | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
up inspections for all these services have been planned. They | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
said they would not hesitate to act should they find evidence that | :04:23. | :04:30. | |
people using services are at risk. This means that some carers who | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
work for private companies may have been allowed into elderly people's | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
homes without their employers having to pass an inspection. This | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
also means they may not have procedures in place for crucial | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
staff training and the checking of criminal records. But we discovered | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
that these are not the only concerns about the current system | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
of elderly care. At present, 73% of home care visits in the UK are 30 | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
minutes or shorter. These care workers wish to remain anonymous | :04:57. | :05:03. | |
for fear of losing their jobs. We're meant to wash them, dress | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
them and give them breakfast and 15 minutes just isn't enough time. If | :05:06. | :05:11. | |
we go over that time, we don't get paid. And only 10% of councils in | :05:11. | :05:14. | |
the northwest make payments to care workers for travel time between | :05:14. | :05:19. | |
jobs. There's lots of carers doing a 12-hour shift and only being paid | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
for 6-7 hours because the rest is travelling time. You used to be | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
paid it but now it's taken off. Janet Watson was reliant on home | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
care for her father, Tom, earlier this year. She was disappointed by | :05:31. | :05:41. | |
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what she saw. One night a carer didn't have time to empty a urinal, | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
the next day she also forgot so my dad was left sitting in his own | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
urine. There was nothing he could do about it. There were two days | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
where they didn't turn up at all. Now, if they let the family know, | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
maybe you can do something about it. We had one carer who regularly said | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
she was far too busy to give our father a bath. We used to have to | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
insist. Once every two weeks is not enough when you're sitting in a | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
chair all day. 90% of the actual carers are brilliant and do their | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
level best but they are on a race against time and never know what | :06:15. | :06:22. | |
they're going to face wherever they visit. With an increased workload, | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
this leads to stressed and rushed workers on little more than minimum | :06:25. | :06:31. | |
wage who have less time for care. In the morning, there's meant to be | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
a file which tells us what the clients needs are - but sometimes | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
there's no proper information to say what they need and we have to | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
go off our own initiative. Sometime we have to give out medication, but | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
the information isn't up to scratch. We're going off instinct. I've | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
worked for a long time but if a new carer comes in and the information | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
isn't there, care gets missed and medication can get missed. I've not | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
got the heart in it anymore and I do cut corners. I didn't used to. | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
At one time, I loved my job and I was always doing overtime but now, | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
it's just not worth it. You're not appreciated. Not by the service | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
users, but by the bosses. They're just in it for the money. The UK | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Home Care Association says that council cuts are having an impact | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
on companies. There are a lot of people in this sector working very | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
hard to try and get this right and there is still a lot of very good | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
care. This is a very real problem at the moment. There is very little | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
money around, as we all know. The money available to local | :07:28. | :07:31. | |
authorities has been cut back. A number of local authorities are | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
employing what I call a knee-jerk reaction, which is panicking and | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
saying "oh, my goodness, we've got to get the same level of care for | :07:37. | :07:44. | |
the same number of people for less money." To get the local council | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
perspective we spoke to Lorraine Butcher from Cheshire East Council, | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
they wrote to all their care providers asking them to reduce | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
their costs in order to make savings. This is the big challenge | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
of the 21st century in my view. Certainly of 2012 moving forward, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
major demographic changes of people staying alive longer, fabulous, | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
look forward to it myself, touch wood. But how we safeguard | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
vulnerable adults going forward at such volumes is a real challenge | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
for the country as a whole. We have written to all our care providers | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
asking to say can we look at our cost base, review our fees and can | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
they volunteer any areas where they think they can reduce costs to | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
assist us in continuing to meet the care demands of cases going forward | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
and interestingly very positively some of those care providers have | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
responded to us in a very positive vein saying yes, we're happy to | :08:33. | :08:43. | |
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talk to you about this. solution is not to squeeze and | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
squeeze and squeeze until the system collapses - the solution is | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
to find creative ways around it to ensure at the end of the day the | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
client gets the support he or she needs. So with pressure increasing | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
each year as to the best way of paying for our elderly we spoke to | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
the minister responsible for care, Norman Lamb. We know for example, | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
sometimes care is commissioned, domiciliary care, care in people's | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
homes is commissioned in quarter of an hour slots and you have a race | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
to the bottom with the cheapest provider winning the contract. That | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
sort of thing is not appropriate, we should be commissioning buying | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
services in and encouraging, incentivising providers to promote | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
health and wellbeing to extend independence and to improve | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
mobility. These are the things we ought to be doing with the money | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
and if you use the money more effectively you can make it go | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
further and critically, improve care. Across the region, we've | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
found care workers struggling to cope in a failing system, we found | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
government organisations ill- equipped to deal with the growing | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
numbers of care agencies in the market and we've found family | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
members concerned about the level of care received by their elderly | :09:54. | :10:04. | |
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Coming up, tracking down the With council services being slashed | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
back, it's getting harder to rely on the state to look after us when | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
we're old. The problems with funding raise some tough questions. | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
Can we find new and imaginative ways of caring for elderly people? | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
Can we do this without being dependent on state assistance? And | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
will this require us to change the way we actually live our lives? BBC | :10:32. | :10:42. | |
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home editor Mark Easton went on a I wonder what it's like to be 80. | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
If I live that long, who's going to be there to care for me when I | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
can't manage? And who is going to pay the bill? They're questions we | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
all ask, because none of us can know how much it's all going to | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
cost and you can spend almost everything before the state steps | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
in. But I'm here in York because in this city, some of the elderly have | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
clubbed together to share the risk. It's a simple idea. Before you get | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
too decrepit you can apply to live out your days at Hartrigg Oaks - a | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
community run by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation where residents | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
know that if or when they need nursing care, it's available on | :11:21. | :11:31. | |
site at no extra charge. It's not easy to get in, though. You have to | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
pass a medical. And one of the leasehold bungalows needs to be | :11:35. | :11:43. | |
vacant. It pays to apply early. I'm 53 and you made the decision to | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
come her at 61! Well, it was quite easy for us, cos we came here | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
because my parents had died, and suddenly we were the oldest people | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
in our family. We came here and suddenly we were the youngest! So, | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
there were people 40 years older than me! Hartrigg Oaks offers peace | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
of mind to those who can afford it. Residents pay into a communal pot - | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
something like �170 a month for a sixty-year-old - a little bit more | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
if you join later. In return they can be confident that whatever | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
happens to them, they won't get clobbered with care fees they can't | :12:16. | :12:23. | |
afford. You're paying effectively care insurance. You pay the same | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
sum, effectively year on year, with small increases which covers your | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
care however much you need. So when you're fit, OK, you pay over the | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
odds, when you need major care you don't pay a penny more for it. All | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
those worries that everybody has about what happens - you've | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
answered them? We know where our care will take place. Where we'll | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
live when we're crumbling and probably where we'll die. And to me | :12:43. | :12:53. | |
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that's great - we've ticked that Seems to me that Hartrigg Oaks is a | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
local solution to what many would argue should be a national, state | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
responsibility - paying for the care of our elderly. But the plain | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
fact is that at a time of cuts to public services the politicians | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
right now simply cannot agree on where they're going to find the | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
money. So the issue just keeps getting kicked into the long grass. | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
The truth is that, despite the recession, Britain is still many | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
times richer in real terms than it was when today's pensioners were | :13:19. | :13:23. | |
born. We can afford to look after them, but in Westminster, seasoned | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
politicians will tell you that priorities lie elsewhere. Is it | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
just too ridiculous to imagine that the answer to this is just to put | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
taxes up so we can actually pay to look after our elderly? It isn't | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
ridiculous to suggest that we should use the tax system | :13:40. | :13:44. | |
progressively to look after and care for people in old age. It's | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
ridiculous politically because nobody will touch it with a barge | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
pole. Why not? Because people are scared of arguing about tax and | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
spend. They're scared of the consequences at the moment of the | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
economic impact of course - in terms of further depression of our | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
economy. So with taxpayers apparently unable | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
or unwilling to pay for the increasing care demands of the | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
elderly, the search is on for ways to provide help without the need | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
I've come to Wickford in Essex to see one of the country's hundred- | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
or-so homeshares' in action, an idea already very popular on the | :14:21. | :14:28. | |
continent. My husband died in 2002. I've had rheumatoid for about 20 | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
years. And then gradually I found I was getting worse. My daughter did | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
some research and came up with Share and Care' - she rang up one | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
day and said how would you feel about a man? And I thought - a man? | :14:42. | :14:52. | |
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A man? Well, why not!? 80-year old Iona was matched with 45-year old | :14:53. | :15:02. | |
Graham - an NHS worker. For the last two years they've lived | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
alongside each other here in Iona's home. The deal is that he lives | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
rent free in return for spending around 10 hours a week helping out. | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
You see the advert and it says OK, this is not going to be a flatshare | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
with another NHS worker, this is going to be living with an older | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
person. Live-in carer, taking care of the chickens, doing some | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
shopping, mowing the lawn, a few repairs and bits and bobs, a bit of | :15:25. | :15:32. | |
company. It's allowed you to stay here in your own home? Exactly. I | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
desperately wanted to stay here. I love my house, I intend to be | :15:35. | :15:44. | |
carried out in my coffin from here. You don't have a free board and | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
lodging in return for some chores' relationship. You've become | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
friends! We're friends. He has been absolutely amazing - he's given me | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
my life. My quality of life has risen like that, we laugh, he makes | :15:55. | :16:04. | |
me roar with laughter. You know it's so nice when you see something | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
that clearly works as well as that does. It's not for everybody. | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
Clearly the older person needs to have a spare room and their needs I | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
think can't be too severe and thirdly, and perhaps most | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
importantly, the characters have to be right to get that kind of | :16:16. | :16:25. | |
special relationship. So it is an answer, but it's not the answer. | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
We need an imaginative, joined-up holistic answer that mobilises and | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
supports families with caring, that gets the community involved, that | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
gets younger older' people who are still active as part of the | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
solution. And over on the Isle of Wight, there's a unique social | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
experiment being piloted that aims to do just that. It's called Care 4 | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
Care and, again, the idea is simple. For every hour of voluntary care | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
that people put in for their elderly neighbours, they build up | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
an hour's worth of care credit that they can keep in a timebank and | :16:55. | :17:05. | |
then use for their own care later in life. One of the youngest of the | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
150 or so members who've signed up for the pilot scheme is 36-year old | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
Lewis, who's been helping out 87- year-old Pearl. I've been coming to | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
see Pearl for about 6 months now. I've notched up 20 hours and I | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
would like to think that those hours are banked to go towards | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
either helping my mother or helping myself if and when I need it. And | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
it can encourage you so much to actually get out there and do | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
something. I spend quite a lot of time talking to him and he talks to | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
me but that's a big help to me because people don't come. Care 4 | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
Care is the brainchild of Professor Heinz Wolff, who hopes it will play | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
a key part in solving the care crisis. I hope that over the next 3 | :17:53. | :18:03. | |
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years or so we will build it into quite a large national scheme. I | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
hope there might be a million members. The problem is whether the | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
next generation is sufficiently keen to ensure safety in the own | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
age to invest the hours which would buy them their care pension. Here | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
in Westminster, of course, the talk is all about cuts and austerity - | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
not spending billions more caring for our elderly. So the | :18:25. | :18:26. | |
responsibility falls on wider society, on communities, on | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
neighbourhoods, on families - to fill that gap and help all of us | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
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feel more confident about the prospect of growing old. We would | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
all love it to find a lost family heirloom in the back of a cupboard, | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
so imagine how they felt at his charity office in Blackburn when | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
they found the complete archive of a local orphanage in the cellar. -- | :19:01. | :19:11. | |
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in the basement. These pictures provide a glimpse into the past - a | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
past which has had a profound effect on the lives of thousands of | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
Lancashire children. But it's one which has remained hidden for years. | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
This wonderful old building is on the main road through Wilpshire, a | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
village just north of Blackburn. Today it is the headquarters of the | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
local charity Child Action North West - but behind these doors lies | :19:34. | :19:44. | |
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an extraordinary history. They were founded 120 years ago and their | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
headquarters is in the original building that was the girls' | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
orphanage started by James Dixon. The walls here pay homage to the | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
past. But over the years the building has been renovated and | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
reconfigured so it's hard to imagine what it was like when it | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
was home to orphans. Until now. Like so many good stories, the | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
secret was in the cellar. Staff were aware that the basement had | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
been used as a storage area for years but it was only when they | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
decided to explore it properly that they struck gold. They found a | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
complete archive of the orphanage stretching all the way back to 1891 | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
- the year it was founded. Although there's still plenty to explore, | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
most of the important material has now been removed to a special | :20:32. | :20:42. | |
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archive room'. There is almost a complete set there. We have the | :20:46. | :20:56. | |
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archive, the letters, architecture plants. This is the lost treasure | :20:58. | :21:08. | |
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of James Dixon. James Dixon was a marvellous man. He was 23 when he | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
came to Blackburn and was a devout Christian. He was struck by the | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
poverty he saw. He started off building a ragged School and he | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
went on with his vision of an orphanage. Dixon's archives reveal | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
a man who did things properly. is amazing, there is a complete | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
record of every one that passed through the doors of the orphanage. | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
We had the specially printed up. There were two pages for every | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
child. The first page he would record the age and name of the | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
child, when they were admitted and what their last -- what their | :21:55. | :22:05. | |
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history was. Also found in the cellar was a mysterious roll of | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
cine film which included colour and black and white footage. The film | :22:12. | :22:20. | |
was on an enormous real and we had no idea what was on it. There was | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
film of some body's wedding day and also one of the orphanage sports | :22:26. | :22:32. | |
days. Wonderful as it was, the film had thrown up more questions than | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
answers. But fortunately help was at hand. Because of the archives, | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
people we did not know about have come back to last and that is | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
really exciting. We have found residents who have come back as | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
ambassadors. Now former residents and staff hold regular get- | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
togethers, to discuss old times, or to piece together missing fragments | :22:58. | :23:08. | |
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of the past. We were trying to find out about my grandfather. This is | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
plugging a gap because we didn't know at the circumstances behind | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
how he came to be in the orphanage. The staff there to shield around us. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
We were allowed to be children. remember Christmas when you were | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
really spoiled. This room was magical on Christmas Day. The joy | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
of opening the presents. Many years ago two young residents appeared on | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
the orphanage Christmas card - now they're reunited again. And I had | :23:42. | :23:52. | |
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another surprise for them. That is the original. They were happy times. | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
With so many former residents now back on the scene, there was a | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
chance for me to find out more about the mystery cinefilm. Whose | :24:01. | :24:05. | |
wedding did it show? And what year was the sports day? Trevor Booth | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
has lived in the area most of his life - ever since he arrived at the | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
orphanage as a toddler back in 1933. I always knew there was a film | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
because I have seen it. Do you remembered being filmed? I remember | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
it. I remember them showing it in the school. Let's have a look at | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
the sports day. Not only did he know about it - it turned out he | :24:35. | :24:43. | |
was in it! I can see myself, the little blonde one on the left. | :24:44. | :24:53. | |
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sort of races that they have? The wheelbarrow race? Yes. I was born | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
in 1933 and I was only about five or six on that film, that must have | :24:59. | :25:05. | |
been about 1938. Trevor was also able to give me some very valuable | :25:05. | :25:13. | |
information about the wedding film. The people we got married, that was | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
Gordon and Iris. I am still in contact with their doctor. She | :25:19. | :25:25. | |
would be a good person to see it. My next stop was the home of Linda | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
Haddon - now Linda Black - who, ironically, ended up living in the | :25:28. | :25:38. | |
orphanage. That's my mother in the wedding dress, my father. That's my | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
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grandfather and grandmother. Look at that. It must be great to see | :25:49. | :25:59. | |
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this. It is really lovely. My father was put in the orphanage at | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
the age of nine, because his stepmother did not like him. My | :26:05. | :26:13. | |
mother was the doctor of the superintendent of the orphanage. I | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
was only three when my mother died and when my father died when I was | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
14, I then went to live with my grandparents permanently until I | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
left there to get married. Linda was also able to clear up the | :26:27. | :26:34. | |
mystery surrounding the date of the colour film. The marriage took | :26:34. | :26:44. | |
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place on March 24th, 1945. We have proof. Next, I discovered that | :26:52. | :27:01. | |
James Dixon's legendary fund- raising day has been restarted. He | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
invited the wealthy to give �1 of cash. Now it is a fun day out for | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
all the family. Among the guests is a celebrity patron who grew up over | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
the road from the orphanage. In my school, there were two girls in my | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
class who lived here, and we would go to each other's houses 40, I | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
came here for tea. It was like a big happy family and it had a | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
lovely atmosphere. It is part of my heritage. And completing my journey, | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
I was able to meet up with James Dixon's grand-daughter. This has | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
been a super day, I remember coming here when I was a child, and I | :27:43. | :27:49. | |
think it is a great idea. They have reinvented it. You must be very | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
proud of what your grandfather did. Indeed, I am not only proud of what | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
he did, I am glad it has survived all these years as a living | :27:59. | :28:07. | |
organisation. The spotlight this has given us, the spotlight and the | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
story, it has brought people together and reminded people we are | :28:11. | :28:21. | |
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here. His legacy is continuing. That's all for now, goodbye. Next | :28:38. | :28:44. |