Matron 'Stinking' Bottomly runs the Foundling Hospital and doesn't think twice about locking unruly foundlings in the tench and that's not the worst of it! Take a look back at some of her meanest ...

At the Female Immigration Depot and the Female Destitute Asylum, the women and girls were offered a safe place to live and three meals a day. But they were closely supervised by a matron and were ...

A statement was read, explaining: “An eligible matron has been appointed and the ... confusion over the location of the original female asylum which was founded and opened in 1825 “a short ...