<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4c15d81b-0854-415e-9b8d-31bae18e10b9/35A448C0-B045-49AC-98A8-E7A86332F4E7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055554/Charlie-Chaplin-child-pauper-website-proves.html?ITO=1490" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055554/Charlie-Chaplin-child-pauper-website-proves.html?ITO=1490" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailymail.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055554/Charlie-Chaplin-child-pauper-website-proves.html?ITO=1490">Fascinating details of Charlie Chaplin's early years growing up in a grim Victorian workhouse can be revealed for the first time.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055554/Charlie-Chaplin-child-pauper-website-proves.html?ITO=1490">Chaplin was admitted to the workhouse in London at the age of seven, along with his older brother Sydney, after his alcoholic father abandoned him when his mother was committed to an asylum in 1896.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055554/Charlie-Chaplin-child-pauper-website-proves.html?ITO=1490"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/FD795D48-D918-406D-BAAB-1A62F92A2A2B" alt="chaplin" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055554/Charlie-Chaplin-child-pauper-website-proves.html?ITO=1490"><P class="imageCaption">Legend: Chaplin based The Tramp on his poverty-stricken time in London</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055554/Charlie-Chaplin-child-pauper-website-proves.html?ITO=1490"><P>There, the future Hollywood legend would have been exposed to appalling conditions and forced to survive on the most basic diet of gruel. Along with 11-year-old Sydney, he was made to work and would have been housed with unemployed men.</P><P>It had previously been believed that Chaplin spent time in a workhouse but no evidence existed to prove it. Now the newly released page of the workhouse notebook can be seen as the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) upload 500 years of history on to the web.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055554/Charlie-Chaplin-child-pauper-website-proves.html?ITO=1490"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.dailymail.co.uk/img/B0441684-EADC-4106-A725-45A04DECF0AF" alt="book" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1055554/Charlie-Chaplin-child-pauper-website-proves.html?ITO=1490"><P class="imageCaption">Workhouse: Chaplin's entry in the institution's book in 1896, when he was seven</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/35A448C0-B045-49AC-98A8-E7A86332F4E7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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