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14-08-18, 11:09
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It came across very well.
I was intrigued to see what the next paragraph said when he'd changed his dob at Windermere. Also on his army record he was given a Good - the services have 4 categories Poor, Good, VG (norm) and Superior. So wonder whether he had problems whilst in the Army.
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14-08-18, 13:43
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Here is Israel Medalyer with his mother and siblings in Whitechapel on the 1911 census:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/interacti...=successSource
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14-08-18, 14:14
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A fascinating episode. I'd got a bit jaded with WDYTYA as so much seemed to be covering old ground and I was a bit anti-Rinder as I'd just seen the showy side on Strictly. But he was so genuine and he remembered his grandfather as he was in later life, so discovering what had happened to his family was poignant. So sad that he couldn't list the names of his siblings.
The other half of the programme about Israel was also interesting. I'm sure we all have relatives who had mental health issues, but there was such a stigma attached. My father recalled Friern Barnet Hospital when it was known as "Colney Hatch" as a bogey place.
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14-08-18, 14:31
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In fact, Colney Hatch was a separate area in the then vast hospital grounds. Colney Hatch had a working farm and inmates of the hospital worked there, usually epileptics or people of low intelligence who had been dumped in the hospital during childhood at the behest of the medical profession usually. OC
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14-08-18, 15:55
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The Telegraph tv critic describes this episode as "as affecting as anything we've seen over the 14 years that WDYTYA has been running" and I totally agree with him. He comments that the Windermere section even made the historian cry. I thought when watching that I'd never seen that happen before. And Robert Rinder is so nice.
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14-08-18, 16:03
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I found it really interesting, although I like him anyway. He came over as very genuine.
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14-08-18, 18:51
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It crossed my mind that Israel might have had Parkinson's like his daughter. It would explain his tremors.
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