Talbot Village - Distinctiveness

Distinctiveness

Talbot Village was created to provide housing for the unemployed parishioners of Kinson; it stands apart from model villages such as the Cadbury family's Bourneville which were built to house workers, who would then be able to perform their jobs with greater efficiency: the Talbot sisters received no financial return from their residents for having set up the village. Georgina Talbot was motivated by the death of her elder brother and her dad. she used the money to help the poor of Bournemouth and Kinson because she cared about the area. Georgina didn't marry so she would be able to keep in possession of her own money and not have it taken away by husband. Georgina and her family came to Bournemouth when she was a young girl but was shocked by what she saw. There were people were begging on the streets in filth with not enough money to provide for their families. Talbot Village is not signposted as this is the way the sisters wanted it, so not many people nowadays have much interest in the history of the fascination of Talbot Village.