Social Collection (#89)

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

Islington Parish Workhouse
A view of the Islington parish workhouse on Liverpool Road. Date: 1819

St Vincents Boys Home, Hull. Boys sit alongside the entrance driveway. Date: circa 1912

House of Mercy, Horbury, West Yorkshire - Hospital
The hospital building at the Horbury House of Mercy, a home for penitent fallen women - pregnant single girls. Date: Date unknown

Victoria Lodge Home for Motherless Boys, Hounslow

Hope Place Donkey Shed
The former donkey shed at Hope Place, Stepney, where Thomas Barnardo opened his first childrens home

Bradwall / Saltersford Reformatory, Holmes Chapel
Bradwall Training School (later known as Saltersford Reformatory) for Boys, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire. Date: circa 1918

Home for Motherless Children, The Roystons, Grove Park, Chiswick

Home for Motherless Children, Robert Thomson Smith
Robert Thomson Smith, founder of the Home for Motherless Children

Home for Motherless Children, Mrs Robert Thomson Smith
Mrs Robert Thomson Smith, wife of the founder of the Home for Motherless Children

Highbury Home for Friendless Children
Children and a member of staff at the Highbury Home for Friendless Children, Highbury Grove, North London. Date: 1930

Home for Motherless Children, Children eating apples
Home for Motherless Children residents enjoy gift of apples sent from Canada by former resident

Highbury Home for Friendless Children, Pound Day
Highbury Home for Friendless Children, North London. Leaflet advertising a Pound Day where local supporters of the home were requested to make a gift of either one pound in cash

Hertfordshire Reformatory Admission Form
Hertfordshire Reformatory for Boys - paperwork required for new admissions

Home for Motherless Children, Florence Road, Ealing

Barnardos William Baker Training School ( Goldings ), Hertford Date: 2014

Hereford St Martins Home
A view of St Martins Home for Girls on Walnut Tree Avenue, Hereford

Barnardos Babies Castle, Hawkhurst - Under trees
Barnardos Babies Castle, Hawkhurst. Children in cots and prams in a shady place. One child sits in a swing

Barnardos Babies Castle, Hawkhurst - Dinner Time
Barnardos Babies Castle, Hawkhurst. Children sit at long tables eating their dinner

Barnardos Babies Castle, Hawkhurst - Family Group
The family of staff and children pose outside Barnardos Babies Castle, Hawkhurst. Date: circa 1904

Barnardos Babies Castle, Hawkhurst - Bedtime
Barnardos Babies Castle, Hawkhurst. Children in their nightgowns stand among rows of cots. Plaques on the wall suggest that each cot has been funded by a benefactor

Harrogate Northern Police Orphanage - Children at Play
Harrogate Northern Police Orphanage. Children playing in front of the home

Harrogate Northern Police Orphanage - Girls with dolls
Harrogate Northern Police Orphanage. Girls with dolls in the grounds of the home

Harrogate Northern Police Orphanage - Girls Playroom
Harrogate Northern Police Orphanage. Girls Children in the homes playroom

National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden - The London Choir
National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden. The Homes choir, still known as the London Choir - reflecting the Homes previous location in Bethnal Green

National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden - Chapel Window
National Childrens Home (NCH), Harpenden. The west window of the Homes chapel, designed by Frank O. Salisbury and gifted by Sir Charles C. Wakefield

Hadleigh Salvation Army Colony
Buildings at the Salvation Armys Labour Colony at Hadleigh in Essex

Glasgow Parkhead industrial area, 1896
A smoke laden view of the Parkhead Industrial Area, Glasgow. Date: 1896

National Childrens Home (NCH) Industrial School, Gravesend. Uniformed boys stand in front of a table bearing a large number of bells of different sizes. Date: 1890s

Glasgow Schools for Orphans of Foreigners designed by James A. Burton. Date: 1882

Glasgow Toll Cross Convent of Good Shepherd Dormitory
Dormitory at the Toll Cross Convent of Good Shepherd. Beside each bed is a small cupboard with a washbowl, soap, glass and toothbrush

Gracie Fields Orphanage, Peacehaven
Gracie Fields and Dora Bryan making music with children at the Gracie Fields Orphanage, Peacehaven. Date: circa 1950s

Glasgow Municipal Family Home interiors
The spacious interiors of a Glasgow Municipal Family Home, precise location not recorded. Date: 1896

Glasgow Municipal Family Home
Exterior of a Glasgow Municipal Family Home, precise location not recorded. Date: 1896

Glasgow Municipal Lodging House Plan
Layout plan of a Glasgow Municipal Lodging House. Date: 1896

Glasgow Municipal Lodging House
A Glasgow Municipal Lodging House, precise location not recorded. Date: 1896

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