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Not sure about the "boy in a dress because they were poor"; when did 'breeching' stop? I have a photo of my dad (b 1923) aged about 2 in a dress. Last of a family of 3 girls and 4 boys.....working class from Shoreditch.
I also liked this programme. Even if his father had lived the children would still be taken from him, as it was thought men couldn't look after children. Unfortunately, I can't recall the name of the man who fought to get his motherless children out of a nun's orphanage.
I had one ex WWII veteran teacher. He brought a photo of himself aged two to show us. There were plenty of giggles when we saw he had long hair set in ringlets and (tee hee) he wore a dress. The only means we had to know he was a boy was the side of the head his hair parting was on.
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