Childrens Collection (page 60)

Girls Friendly Society (GFS) Much Ado About Nothing
Members of a Girls Friendly Society (GFS) drama club rehearse a scene from Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing. Date: circa 1920s

St Marys Waifs and Strays Home, Felixstowe - Girls at Beach
St Marys Waifs and Strays Home, Felixstowe. Girls from the home are at an area just above the beach. Several bathing machines can be seen. The pier (left) was one of the longest in the country

St Marys Waifs and Strays Home, Felixstowe - Dining Hall
St Marys Waifs and Strays Home, Felixstowe. The dining hall is being laid out for tea, with mugs, plates and stacks of sliced bread

Farningham Home for Little Boys General View
Farningham Home for Little Boys - general view. Date: circa 1875

Josiah Masons Orphanage, Erdington, Birmingham
Josiah Masons Orphanage opened in 1868 at Erdington, Birmingham. Date: circa 1905

Farningham Home for Little Boys Cottage
Farningham Home for Little Boys - one of the childrens cottages. Date: circa 1875

Farningham Home for Little Boys Chapel
Farningham Home for Little Boys - the chapel. Date: circa 1875

Dumfries and Maxwelltown Industrial School Band
The Dumfries and Maxwelltown Industrial School fife and drum band. Date: circa 1906

Abbey of St Mary of Nazareth, Hale Lane, Edgware. A graveyard lies at the centre of the picture

National Childrens Home, Edgworth, Lancashire
National Childrens Home (NCH), Edgworth, Lancashire. The Barlow Memorial House, named after the homes benefactor. Date: circa 1900

Dinner-time at Church Army Home, Westminster. Men sit eating at long rows of trestle tables. A uniformed officer is seated at the left. Date: circa 1920

Dublin City Workhouse
A view of the 17-foot-long frontage of the Dublin City Workhouse. Date: 1762

Derby Railway Servants Orphanage Workshop
Derby Railway Servants Orphanage - boys with planes, mallets, chisels etc in the carpentry workshop. Date: circa 1908

Derby Railway Servants Orphanage Girls Day Room
Derby Railway Servants Orphanage - girls sit in their day room. Date: circa 1908

Derby Railway Servants Orphanage Children in the Sanatorium
Derby Railway Servants Orphanage - children in the homes sanatorium. Date: circa 1908

Derby Railway Servants Orphanage Boys Dormitory
Derby Railway Servants Orphanage - beds lined up in a boys dormitory. A basket for stowing clothes is under each bed. Date: circa 1908

Derby Railway Servants Orphanage
A view of the Derby Railway Servants Orphanage. Date: circa 1908

Barnardos Home Wheelwright
A young wheelwright at an unnamed Barnardos Home. Date: circa 1922

Barnardos Home Tinsmith
A young tinsmith at an unnamed Barnardos Home. Date: circa 1922

Barnardos Home Gardener
A young gardener at an unnamed Barnardos Home. Date: circa 1922

Barnardos Home Carpenters Final Lesson before Australia
Barnardos Home Carpenters having a final lesson in roof construction before their emigration to Australia. Date: 1922

Barnardos - Dame Margarets Home - Washington, Durham
Two women, perhaps the Matron and her assistant, at the gates of Dame Margarets Home, Washington, Durham, one of the homes run by Barnardo s

Barnardos Home Boys leaving Tilbury for Australia
Barnardos Home Boys aboard the tender Ballarat at the start of their emigration journey to Australia. Date: December 1922

Barnardos Home Boys at Tilbury en route to Australia
Barnardos Home Boys arriving at Tilbury at the start of their emigration journey to Australia. Date: December 1922

Dartmouth Home for Crippled Boys, Blackheath
Frontage of the Dartmouth Home for Crippled Boys, Blackheath. Date: circa 1909

Barnardos Home Blacksmith
A young blacksmith at an unnamed Barnardos Home. Date: 1922

Craven Hall Wesleyan Cr裨e
Interior of the cr裨 e operated by West London Mission of the Methodist Church. Between 1894 and 1907 the cr裨 e was based at Craven Hall, Fouberts Place, Westminster. Date: circa 1896

St Agnes Home Waifs and Strays Home, Croydon
A girl at the St Agnes Home Waifs and Strays Home, Croydon

Craven Hall Wesleyan Cr裨e - Sister Hope
Sister Hope who, for 44 years, ran the cr裨 e operated by West London Mission of the Methodist Church. Between 1894 and 1907 the cr裨 e was based at Craven Hall, Fouberts Place

The Nest, Clapton - Schoolroom
Children sit in a classroom at The Nest, a Salvation Army home at Clapton, East London

The Cottage Homes of England
A verse from Felicia Dorothea Hemans poem The Homes of England (often referred to by its first line, The Stately Homes of England ) illustrated with an archetypal Englishman outside his cottage

The Nest, Clapton - Sandpit
Children play in a sandpit at The Nest, a Salvation Army home at Clapton, East London

The Nest, Clapton - Going for a Walk
The Salvation Army home at Clapton, East London. Two women each push a pram containing two babies, while older children walk alongside

The Nest, Clapton - Ironing
The Salvation Army home at Clapton, East London. Girls in aprons iron clothing under the supervision of a Salivation Army officer

The Nest, Clapton - Garden
Girls hold hands in a circle in the garden at The Nest, a Salvation Army home at Clapton, East London

The Nest, Clapton
Girls, staff and two small dogs at The Nest, a Salvation Army home at Clapton, East London Date: circa 1908

Grooms Orphanage, Clacton - Tug-of-War
Girls tug-of-war team at John Grooms Orphanage, Clacton, Essex

Good Shepherd Home, Rectory Grove, Clapham - Footballers
Football squad at the Good Shepherd Childrens Home, Rectory Grove, Clapham. Date: circa 1912

Grooms Orphanage, Clacton - Dining hall
Girls sit at long tables in the dining-hall of John Grooms Orphanage, Clacton, Essex. Date: circa 1930

Grooms Orphanage, Clacton - Row of Houses
Children stand in front of their homes at John Grooms Orphanage, Clacton, Essex

Chelmsford Industrial School
A view across vegetable gardens of the Chelmsford Industrial School

Manchester Warehousemen and Clerks Orphanage, Cheadle Hulme. The girls hockey team pose in their kit. Date: circa 1923

Heritage Craft Schools, Chailey, Sussex
Inmates of the Heritage Craft Schools for crippled boys at Chailey, East Sussex. The scantily clad boys are engaged in various craft activities outside a thatched building

Cecil House, Harrow Road, London - Waiting for Admission
Women, one carrying a baby, waiting for admission to Cecil House, Harrow Road, London - a public lodging house for women. Date: circa 1932

Cannington Industrial School
Industrial School for Roman Catholic Boys at Cannington, Somerset. Date: circa 1908

Cecil House, Harrow Road, London - Mother and children
A mother and children enjoy tea and biscuits at Cecil House, Harrow Road, London - a public lodging house for women. Date: circa 1932

National Childrens Home (NCH), Canada - An old boys house
A emigrant to Canada from the National Childrens Home (NCH) stands in front of the house he now owns

Barnardos Emigrants in Canada - Chums and their Pets
Two Barnardos emigrants to Canada pose with piglets in a farm yard

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