Orphans Collection (page 17)

Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner - Gymnasium
Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner. Gymnasium interior. Date: circa 1906

Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner - Dormitory
Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner. Rows of beds in a dormitory. Date: circa 1906

Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner. View of the main building. Date: circa 1906

Commercial Travellers School, Pinner - Girls Sewing Class
Commercial Travellers School, Pinner. Girls cutting out material and sewing by hand or by machine

Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner - Boys Drill
Commercial Travellers Schools, Pinner. Boys Boys perform a drill routine. Date: circa 1906

Pembury, Kent - Union Church
A view of the Union Church (later known as Pembury Free Church), Pembury, Kent. Date: circa 1912

National Childrens Home (NCH), Frodsham - Ploughing
Boys from the National Childrens Home (NCH) branch at Newton Hall, Frodsham, near Warrington. Two are hoeing the ground, another is leading a horse-drawn plough

Newcastle-upon-Tyne Industrial School - Gymnastics
Boys from the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Industrial School give a display of gymnastics. Date: circa 1904

National Childrens Home (NCH) Boys Off to Canada
A party of boys from branches of the National Childrens Home (NCH) onboard a ship about to set sail for Canada

Mrs Louisa Birt
Louisa Birt was the sister and colleague of childrens emigration promoter Annie Macpherson. From 1873 to 1915 she was Superintendent of the Liverpool Sheltering Home. Date: circa 1910

Men Chop Firewood at Morning Post Embankment Home
Men chop firewood at a home on Londons Embankment sponsored by the Morning Post newspaper during a period of severe unemployment. Date: circa 1920

Monks at Work, Mount St Bernards Abbey, Leicestershire. In the 1860s and 1870s, the monks ran a boys reformatory

Miss Elizabeth Meiklejohn
Elizabeth Meiklejohn became involved in the work of childrens emigration promoter Annie Macpherson and from 1877 ran the Macpherson distribution home in Knowlton, Ontario. Date: circa 1910

Mrs Rachel Merry
Louisa Birt was the sister and colleague of childrens emigration promoter Annie Macpherson. Rachel and her husband Joseph Merry superintended Macphersons Home of Industry for several years

Miss Emma Barber
Emma Barber, a resident of Knowlton, Ontario, became involved in the work of childrens emigration promoter Annie Macpherson and from 1872 to 1877ran the Macpherson distribution home in the town

White Lodge childrens home, Marlow
A nurse with three young children at the White Lodge childrens home, Marlow, Buckinghamshire. Date: 1940s

Miss Ellen Bilbrough
Ellen Bilbrough, an assistant of childrens emigration promoter Annie Macpherson, went to Canada to run the Marchmont House distribution home at Belleville, Ontario. Date: circa 1910

Macpherson Home New Children
New arrivals at the London childrens home run by Miss Annie Macpherson

Marie Hilton, founder of the pioneering cr裨 e at Stepney Causeway, where working women could leave their children

Luton Childrens Home. Date: circa 1904

Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, London - Wheelwrights Sh
Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, London. Boys at work using a variety of tools in the wheelwrights shop

Macpherson Boys en route to Canada
Boys en route to Canada in an emigration party organised by Miss Annie Macpherson

London St Georges in the Fields Philanthropic Society Reformatory and Chapel. Date: circa 1805

Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, London - Bakery
Barnardos Home, Stepney Causeway, London. Boys make bread. Loaves are being removed from the oven

London Orphan Asylum, Watford - Infirmary Girls Ward
London Orphan Asylum, Watford. The girls ward in the homes hospital facility. Date: circa 1924

London Orphan Asylum, Watford - Boys Laboratory
London Orphan Asylum, Watford. Boys carry out a chemistry experiment in the laboratory. Date: circa 1924

London Orphan Asylum, Watford, Chapel
London Orphan Asylum, Watford. Architects design for the chapel. Date: 1869

London Orphan Asylum, Watford - Dining Hall
Children sit in long rows in the dining hall at the London Orphan Asylum, Watford

Northcourt Hospital, Hampstead, London
Children seated and in beds on a covered balcony in the Connaught Ward of the Northcourt Hospital, Hampstead, London

Liverpool Training Ship Indefatigable Pictorial, London
Liverpool Training Ship Indefatigable

London Orphan Asylum / School, Watford - Aerial view
An aerial view of the London Orphan School (formerly London Orphan Asylum) at Watford. Railway yards lie at the bottom of the picture

St Edwards Orphanage, Liverpool - Entrance
St Edwards Orphanage, Broad Green, Liverpool - front entrance

Liverpool Seamens Orphanage
The Liverpool Seamens Orphanage, designed by Alfred Waterhouse. Date: 1872

Liverpool Sheltering Home, Myrtle Street, Liverpool

Liverpool Seamens Orphanage Opening Royal Procession
Liverpool Seamens Orphanage opened by the Duke of Edinburgh, popularly known as the Sailor Prince. The royal party in procession. Date: 1872

Liverpool Sailors Home. Date: circa 1908

Liverpool Robins Christmas Dinner Guests
Some of the guests at a Robins Christmas Dinner, a meal provided each December for up to five thousand poor children of Liverpool from 1873 onwards. Date: circa 1910

Kingswood Reformatory Woodworking
Boys with saws, planes etc. in the carpentry workshop at the Kingswood Reformatory, near Bristol. Date: circa 1901

Kingswood Reformatory
A hand-coloured view of Kingswood Reformatory, near Bristol

Kingswood Reformatory Gymnastics
Gymnastic display by boys at the Kingswood Reformatory, near Bristol. Date: circa 1901

Kingsnorth Industrial School, Ashford
Entrance driveway of the Kingsnorth Industrial School for Boys at Ashford, Kent

Newland Cottage Homes, Hull - Band
Newland Cottage Homes, Hull. Members of the boys band and their instruments. Date: early 1900s

Fegans Home entrance Stony Stratford
Main entrance to Fegans Home for boys at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire

James Fegan and cat
Childrens home founder James Fegan in his office with cat. Date: circa 1913

Thomas Barnardo is shown a group of sleeping street Arabs
Dr Thomas Barnardo is shown the rooftop sleeping arrangements of London Street Arabs by Jim Jarvis, one of their number whom Barnardo befriended. Date: circa 1870

St Vincents Boys Home, Hull - Recreation Room
St Vincents Boys Home, Hull. The recreation room containing benches, books and games

Sailors Orphan Homes, Hull. Date: circa 1905

St Vincents Boys Home, Hull - Dining Room
St Vincents Boys Home, Hull. Tables laid out for a meal

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