That was really great input about Joseph Livesey, Peter, especially the list of 'things I dont like to see'. To my mind that really sums up Joseph Livesey, the great caring person. He was wealthy, and to satisfy his social conscience he could have just given money, but no, he actively participated in helping people.
To illustrate this point I have included two extracts from Livesey's writings.
'Many a score of beds I have seen without a single blanket; sometimes with no covering but a thin cotton sheet....Few could believe how poor families sleep unless they saw it'. (Preston Temperance Advocate 1826).
Joseph Livesey also wrote in his autobiography about the 'orphans of Roach Bridge' (children brought by John Watson from the Foundling Hospital in London - 'Poor squalid deformed beings, the most pitiful objects I think I ever beheld.'
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