June 2025

Inside this issue: Rev. John Weston Jr - Vicar of Cholsey, Highlight on Wantage, Harriet Elizabeth Parry’s Travel Journal

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The Foundling Hospital and Newbury

Thomas Coram's Foundling Hospital opened in 1740 to care for babies abandoned in the streets of London. Many of them were sent to be nursed in Newbury, under a scheme organised through aristocratic patronage, middle-class networking and working-class philanthropy.

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