Hidden Lives Revealed - Events: Frome Pound day

An impressive pile of donations for the Home's 'pound day'. Pound days were one of the ways homes raised funds and cemented links with the local community. They were called pound days because people were asked to donate either a pound in money or a pound in weight of something the home could use, such as material or foodstuffs.

Ref: WS102
Title: Frome Pound day - some of the gifts
Date: Thursday 11 September 1902
Location: Sunnyside Home For Boys, Frome, Somerset
Creator: Unknown, taken from Our Waifs and Strays, October 1902, page 383

Description:
An impressive pile of donations for the Home's 'pound day'. Pound days were one of the ways homes raised funds and cemented links with the local community. They were called pound days because people were asked to donate either a pound in money or a pound in weight of something the home could use, such as material or foodstuffs.

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