Amodau Cymdeithasol

Wyrcws Ffordun

Wyrcws Ffordun ym 1907
Archifau Sir Powys

Roedd Wyrcws Ffordun yn wyrcws fawr a oedd yn gwasanaethu 20 plwyf. Yng nghyfrifiad 1891 roedd yno 50 o ddynion, 34 o wragedd a 36 o blant -- cyfanswm o 120. I gymharu â Wyrcws Llanfyllin, roedd yno lawer o staff mawr a oedd yn byw i mewn.

Yn ogystal â'r Meistr, Metron, Porthor a nyrsys a gyflogid gan Llanfyllin, roedd Ffordun yn gallu cadw ei athrawes, cogydd, morwyn gyffredinol a gwniadwraig / porthoryddes ei hun.

Roedd agweddau tuag at y wyrcws yn newid yn raddol, fel y gwelir yn y sylw o golofn 'Rambler's Weekly Diary' y Montgomeryshire Express & Radnor Times ar 24 Chwefror 1891.

"What a wonderful advance humanizing influences and ideas have made during the last quarter of a century. I don't know whether any of Stead's "Helpers" have been moving about in this locality, but the amount of interest taken in the comfort and enjoyments of the poorer classes to-day, as compared with what it was formerly, is most remarkable. The Forden Board of Guardians - a body which does not as a rule act upon the side of generosity - has decided to purchase footballs, cricketing tack, skipping ropes, etc., for the use of the children in the workhouse. This is a step in the right direction, and one which will be warmly commended by all who are human beings first and ratepayers afterwards. The children of English workhouses in the past have understood (in all its severity) the law which visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, and poverty has been regarded as a crime to be punished in common with theft and vice of every kind; but I am glad to find that guardians such as Mr Miller and the Rev J Sawer have adopted a wiser and more human view of their duties."