With two weeks until our Heritage lottery funded show ‘Through the Front Door’ at the Frome Memorial Theatre we would like to show you some of the stories we uncovered during our research, which have shaped our creative work and the content of the show!
First up, we learned about the places that people with learning disabilities would have lived 150 years ago. We visited the South West Heritage Centre to get our information.
We learned that if you were poor and your family couldn’t support you, you would have been sent to the workhouse. Life in Frome workhouse was not very nice!
These workhouses later became hospitals where many people with learning disabilities continued to live.
We visited the site of Frome workhouse, later called Selwood hospital, and the site of Norah Fry in Shepton Mallet, which was once a workhouse and then a Hospital. Now it is houses.
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