Children’s
ward at Bedford Hospital with Christmas tree, c.1910 [Z1306/10/6/15]
Tuesday
25th December 1917: The Mayor and Mayoress of Bedford, Mr. and
Mrs. Harry Browning, have organised a Christmas dinner table collection in aid
of the Lord Roberts Memorial Workshops Fund. These workshops teach soldiers and
sailors who have been disabled in the war to make useful articles, enabling
them to feel that they are earning their wages and are not dependent on
charity. The workshop products include woodwork of every kind, furniture,
brushes, baskets, metal goods, tinware, wooden and metal toys, stationery and
printing of all kinds. These are made in light, airy factories, where crippled
men are turned into valuable citizens. They are specially equipped with adapted
machinery for the use of the men. The aim
of Mayor and Mayoress’s appeal is that a collection will be made at every
dinner table in Bedford today. Every house in the town has been provided with
an envelope, which will be collected over the next two days.
Source:
Bedfordshire Standard, 21st December 1917
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