On 6th September some of our members visited the Foundling Museum in Bloomsbury. Our guide started our tour outside in front of a statue of Thomas Coram holding the Royal Charter from George ll giving him permission to found the hospital in 1739. We learnt that it had taken a full seventeen years of campaigning to achieve his dearly held wish to establish a home for destitute children.
Moving inside we saw the collection on the ground floor; the most moving and poignant items being tokens the mothers left to identify their babies.
