Waifs Gallery

St Marys Home, Felixstowe

The founders of the St Mary's Home, Felixstowe, Mary and Vera Growse are pictured surrounded by their family in 1931, around the time that the home was formally taken over by the Waifs and Strays Society. They had founded the home in Bildeston in around 1893. By 1931 it had moved to Wolsey Gardens, Felixstowe. Date: 1931

© Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection

Band Advertisement, Training Ship Wellesley, North Shields

Advertisement offering the services of the Band of the Training Ship Wellesley, on the River Tyne at North Shields, Northumberland. In 1868, James Hall and other local businessmen set up a charity to provide shelter for Tyneside waifs and train young men for naval service. Their base from 1874 was the Wellesley until a fire in 1914 forced the institution ashore to become the Wellesley Nautical School

© Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection

Waifs and Strays Society Part of Second Emigration Party to

The Waifs and Strays Society's second emigration party to Canada of the 1913 season. Boys are loaded with overcoats and caps and luggage. Date: 1913

© Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection

1913, Boys, Canada, Caps, Care, Carehome, Childrens, Emigration, Home, Loaded, Luggage, Orhanage, Orphans, Overcoats, Party, Season, Service, Services, Social, Strays, Waifs, Welfare