Institutions of 1911
Sanatoria, Catholic homes, poor law schools, asylums etc.


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  BEDFORDSHIRE  

 

Daneswood Sanatorium (for consumptives), Woburn Sands, Bedford. Founded 1902. 22 beds (free treatment available). For Jewish people

 

St. Francis' Home, Shefford, Beds (orphanage for boys) (RC)

 

St. Francis’ Home, Luton - Diocesan Orphanage for Boys (RC)

 

Three Counties Lunatic Asylum, Luton

 

 

  BERKSHIRE  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Broadmoor Asylum, Bracknell

 

House of Mercy, Windsor, Berkshire

 

London Open-Air Sanatorium, Pinewoods, Ninemile Ride, Wokingham, Berks. Founded 1901. 60 beds

 

 

  BUCKINGHAMSHIRE  

 

 

Epileptic Colony, Chalfont St. Peter

 

 

 

 

 

  CHANNEL ISLANDS  

 

 

Asylum for the aged poor, Jersey

 

Orphanage of the Sacred Heart for Boys and Girls, Summerland, Jersey (RC)

 

The Pines (sanatorium for consumptives), St Brelade’s, Jersey. Founded 1904. 8 beds

 

 

  CHESHIRE  

 

 

Asylum, Stockport

 

Convalescent Home, Stockport

 

Convalescent Home, West Kirby

 

Conway Training Ship, Birkenhead (more information here: External website

 

Fever Hospital, Birkenhead

 

Fever Hospital, Clatterbridge

 

Fever Hospital, Stockport

 

Home for Aged Poor, Parkfield Avenue, Birkenhead - Little Sisters of the Poor (RC)

 

House of Mercy, Lache Lane, Chester

 

IndefatigableTraining Ship, Birkenhead (more information: External website)

 

Isolation Hospital, West Heath, Congleton

 

Orphanage and Industrial School for Boys, Stockport

 

Shrewsbury Children's Protection and Rescue Society, Birkenhead (RC)

 

St Hilary School, Wallasey, Wigan, Cheshire – boarding school for children requiring open-air treatment (for consumptives)

 

St. Elizabeth's House, Claughton Road, Birkenhead

 

St. Margaret's Home for Penitents, Mersey Road South, Rock Ferry, Birkenhead

 

Wirral Hospital for Children

 

 

  CORNWALL  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daughters of the Cross, Liskinnick House, Penzance (Orphanage for Girls) (RC)

 

Fever and Smallpox Hospital, Liskard/Liskeard

 

House of Mercy, Lostwithiel, Cornwall

 

 

  CUMBERLAND  

 

Boys' Industrial School, Stanwix, Carlisle, under the Presentation Brothers (RC)

 

Cumberland Sanatorium (for consumptives), Blencathra, Cumberland. Founded 1904. 20 beds (free treatment available)

 

Fever Hospital, Brampton

 

Home for Penitents, Durran Hiill, Carlisle. Served from Saints Mary and Joseph's – under the Sisters of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary (RC)

 

House of Incurables, Brampton

 

Orphanage of the Sacred Heart, Wigton, Cumberland (in charge of the Sisters of Mercy) (girls) (RC)

 

Orphanage of the Sacred Heart, Wigton, Cumberland (under the Sisters of Mercy) (RC)

 

Sacred Heart Maternity Home near Kendal, Cumbria (Catholic institution for unmarried pregnant women)

 

St Joseph's Home, Cumberland - under the Little Sisters of the Poor (RC)

 

St. James' (Bishop Chadwick's Memorial School), Carlisle, under the Presentation Brothers (certified industrial school for senior boys) (RC)

 

St. Joseph's Home, Carlisle (elderly poor) (RC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  DERBYSHIRE  

 

 

Orphanage for Girls, St. Joseph's Convent, Derby (RC)

 

 

  DEVONSHIRE  

 

 

Blackadon Borough Asylum (aka Plymouth Borough Asylum, Blackadon, Bittaford Asylum), Ugborough, Ivybridge, Plymouth

 

Dartmoor Sanatorium (for consumptives), Chagford, Devon. Founded 1903. 20 beds

 

Devon and Cornwall Sanatorium for consumptives, Didworthy, South Brent, Devon. Founded 1903. 16 beds (free treatment available)

 

Dunstone Park Sanatorium (for consumptives), Paignton, Devon. Founded 1900. 10 beds

 

Holy Cross, Plymouth (orphanage for girls) (RC)

 

Home for the Aged and Infirm, Hartley, Plymouth (Little Sisters of the Poor) (RC)

 

Mary’s Priory, Torquay - Orphanage for girls, and Ladies' home (RC)

 

Mildmay Consumptive Home, Torquay, Devon. Founded 1886. 10 beds (for advanced cases)

 

Orphanage Priory, St. Mary's Church, Torquay (RC)

 

Poor law school for boys under fourteen, St. Vincent's, Teignmouth Road, Torre, Torquay - for children from workhouses, under Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent of Paul (RC)

 

Poor law school for girls, 21 Gasking Street, Plymouth - for children from workhouses, under Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent of Paul (RC)

 

St. Vincent's Orphanage, Teignmouth Road, Torre, Torquay  - includes a certifiedPoor law school for boys under 14 from the workhouse - under Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent of Paul (RC)

 

Western Hospital for Incipient Consumption, Torquay, Devon. Founded 1850. 40 beds

 

 

  DORSETSHIRE  

 

Alderney Manor Sanatorium (for consumptives), Oarkstone, Dorsetshire. Founded 1900. 28 beds

 

East Cliff House Convalescent Home for children, Bournemouth (Metropolitan Asylum Board)

 

 

  DURHAM  

 

 

Bellevue Sanatorium (for consumptives), Shotley Bridge, Durham. Founded 1899. 20 beds

 

Consumptive Sanatorium, Wolsingham

 

Durham Country Sanatorium (for consumptives), Stanhope. Durham. Founded 1899. 45 beds (free treatment available)

 

Girls' Certified Poor law school, St. Mary's Home, Tudhoe (RC)

 

 Poor law school for boys from the workhouses: St. Peter's Orphanage, Gainford (under the Sisters of Charity) (RC)

 

Poor law school for girls from the workhouses: St. Mary's Home, Tudhoe, Spennymoor (RC)

 

St. Joseph's Home, Carmel Road, Darlington (under the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul) (girls’ industrial schooll) (RC)

 

St. Mary's Home, Tudhoe, Spennymoor (Poor law school for girls from the workhouses) (RC)

 

St. Peter's Orphanage, Gainford (in charge of Sisters of Charity) (Poor law school for boys from the workhouses) (RC)

 

 

  EAST RIDING  

 

Convent of Mercy, Dansom Lane, Hull (RC)

 

East Riding Lunatic Asylum

 

House of Mercy, for girls to be trained as domestic servants, Convent of Mercy, Dansom Lane, Hull

 

Hull and East Riding Convalescent Home, Withernsea, East Riding. Founded 1900. 28 beds (for consumptives)

 

Night Shelter for Girls, Sculcoates

 

Park Street Orphan Home, Hull

 

St. Vincents Orphan Boys Home (founded 1909), Hull (RC)

 

Working Boys' Home, Sculcoates

 

 

  ESSEX  

 

 

 

Convalescent Home for consumptives, Thorneycroft, Clacton on Sea, Essex

 

Home for Crippled Girls, St. Michael's Convent of Mercy, Clacton-on-Sea

 

Maldon Sanatorium (for consumptives), Maldon, Essex

 

 

Manor House, Chigwell (for ophthalmic boys)

 

Nazareth House, Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend, Essex (convalescent orphanage for girls and poor law school for boys) (RC)

 

Royal Naval Barracks, Shotley, Suffolk/Essex

 

Sacred Heart Orphanage for girls, Brentwood, Essex. Under the Sisters of Mercy (RC)

 

St Albans House of Mercy, Great Maplestead, Braintree, Essex

 

Westcliff-on-Sea, Southend, Essex (a branch house of Nazareth House for infirm and delicate children) (RC)

 

 

 

  GLOUCESTERSHIRE  

 

Catholic Reformatory for Girls, Arno's Vale, Bristol (RC)

 

Cotswold Sanatorium (for consumptives), Birdlip, Glos. Founded 1898. 39 beds

 

Diocesan Rescue Society, for rescuing children in danger of losing their faith, Clifton, Bristol (RC)

 

House of Mercy, Ashley Road, Bedminster, Bristol

 

House of Mercy, Bussage,  Stroud

 

House of Refuge for Penitents, Arno's Vale, Bristol (RC)

 

Houses of Refuge for Aged Poor under the Little Sisters of the Poor, Cotham Park, Bristol (RC)

 

Institute for young women (founded 1864), Stroud?

 

Nazareth House, Cheltenham (RC)

 

Orphanage (founded 1862), Stroud?

 

Orphanage for Girls - Cheltenham

 

Orphanage for Girls - Franciscan Convent, Woodchester, Nailsworth (RC)

 

Orphanage for girls from the workhouses – Westbury on Trym, Bristol

 

Painswick Sanatorium (for consumptives), Painswick, Glos. Founded 1900. 12 beds

 

St. Rose's Convent, Stroud, Glos (Special School certified by the Board of Education for physically defective and crippled girls) (RC)

 

 

  HAMPSHIRE  

 

Asylum and Infectious Hospital, Portsmouth

 

Asylum for the aged poor, Southsea and Jersey

 

Female Orphanage, Southsea

 

Firs Home, Bournemouth, Hampshire. 20 beds (for consumptives at advanced stage)

 

Hahnemann Home (sanatorium for consumptives), Bournemouth, Hampshire. Founded 1879. 32 beds (free treatment available)

 

Hants County Lunatic Asylum, Knowle

 

Isolation Hospital, Basingstoke

 

Linford Sanatorium (for consumptives), Ringwood. Hants. Founded 1899. 24 beds

 

Lunatic Asylum, Isle of Wight

 

Moorcote (sanatorium for consumptives), Eversley, Hampshire. Founded 1899. 20 beds

 

National Sanatorium (for consumptives), Bournemouth, Hampshire. Founded 1855. 71 beds

 

Nazareth House, Lawrence Road, Portsmouth - Orphanage for Girls and home for Aged (RC)

 

Orphanage for Boys, Romsey

 

Orphanage for little boys, Franciscan Convent, Aldershot (RC)

 

Our Lady of Charity and Refuge, Waterlooville, Cosham (RC)

 

Overton Hall sanatorium (for consumptives), Poole Road, Bournemouth, Hampshire. Founded 1898. 12 beds

 

Refuge for Penitents, Bitterne, Southampton (RC)

 

Refuge for Penitents, Waterlooville (RC)

 

Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Founded 1869. 155 beds

 

Society of St. Vincent de Paul, 115 Commercial Road, Landport, Portsmouth (RC)

 

St Catherine’s Home (sanatorium for consumptives in advanced stages), Ventnor, Isle of Wight. Founded 1879. 12 beds

 

St Joseph’s Home (Roman Catholic convalescent home for consumptives), Bournemouth, Hampshire. 72 beds (free treatment available) Under the Sisters of Mercy

 

St. Mary's Industrial Preventive Home for Children, Eastleigh (RC)

 

St. Michael's Convent, Southampton. - refuge for girls and women (RC)

 

 

  HEREFORDSHIRE  

 

 

St. Vincent's, Berrington Street, Hereford (Girls) (for children from the workhouse) (RC)

 

 

 

  HERTFORDSHIRE  

 

 

Bethlehem Convalescent Home, Witley near Wormley, Broxbourne (probably connected to the Bethlehem Asylum )

 

Bushey Heath Cottage Hospital, Hertsmere, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire Convent, Hadham, Hertfordshire (for epileptic boys and girls)

 

Isolation Hospital, Herfordshire

 

Leavesden Imbecile Asylum, Herfordshire (run by the Metropolitan Asylum Board)

 

Napsbury Asylum, St Albans, Herfordshire

 

School for Epileptic Children, Herfordshire (under Daughters of the Cross) (RC)

 

 

 

  KENT  

 

 

 

 

Arethusa training ship, Greenhithe

 

Barming Lunatic Asylum, Barming Heath, Maidstone, Kent. Founded in 1833 as the Kent Lunatic Asylum. later known as Oakwood Hospital. Closed in 1994.

 

City of London Lunatic Asylum, Stone, Dartford

 

Convalescent Home for girls and little boys, the Convent, Grosvenor Place, Margate (RC)

 

Darenth Fever Hospital, Darenth,Dartford, Kent

 

Diocesan Orphanage for little Boys, Mottingham – under the Sisters of Charity. Served from Eltham (RC)

 

Fever Hospital, Skym Corner, Bromley

 

 

Haine Fever Hospital, Ramsgate

 

House for training and protection of girls of good character, Convent of Mercy, Ramsgate (RC)

 

Hythe Beach Rocks and Convalescent Homes, Sandgate

 

Industrial school for boys, Dartford

 

Industrial school for Boys, Whitstable (for little boys)

 

Industrial school for little boys - Whitstable

 

MAB District Asylum, Darenth

 

MAB School, ‘White Oak’, Swanley Junction (Metropolitan Asylum Home).

 

Mottingham House, Eltham (for little boys) (Poor Law School — for Children from Workhouses)

 

Orphanage for Boys, St. Joseph's, Orpington (RC)

 

Orphanage for Boys, St. Mary's, Eltham (RC)

 

Orphanage for girls - Deal

 

Orphanage for girls - Eltham

 

Orphanage for girls - Folkestone

 

Orphanage for girls - St. Anne's, Orpington

 

Royal Sea-bathing infirmary, Margate, Kent. Founded 1791. 16 beds (treating consumption with sea swimming)

 

Salesian Institution, Dover (boys)

 

Salesian Institution, Margate (boys)

 

Salesian Institution, Mottingham (boys)

 

Seaside Sanatorium (for consumptives), Sandgate, Folkstone. Kent

 

St, Anne's Orphanage, Orpington (included a Poor Law School  — for Children from Workhouses) – under the Sisters of Mercy (RC)

 

St. Anne's Home for children, Herne Bay (Metropolitan Asylum Home)

 

St. Joseph's Orphanage for Boys, Orpington – under the Presentation Brothers (RC)

 

St. Mary's, Eltham (for little boys and girls, scalp diseases) (Poor Law School  — for Children from Workhouses)

 

St. Mary's, Roehampton - Orphanage for Girls

 

St. Vincent's Industrial School, Whitstable - for little boys. Sisters of Mercy.

 

Victoria Home for Children, Margate

 

Warspite training ship, Greenhithe

 

West Ham Convalescent Home, Margate

 

Worcester training ship, Greenhithe

 

 

 

 

 

 LANCASHIRE  

 

LIVERPOOL    MANCHESTER     OTHER

 

 

 

 LIVERPOOL 

 

Beacon Lane orphanage and industrial school, under Sisters of Charity, Liverpool - served from Our Lady Immaculate (boys) (RC)

 

Birkdale Farm School (reformatory school for boys) (Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association - opened in 1872)

 

Blind Asylum (founded 1841), Brunswick Road, and Rice House, West Derby, Liverpool, under Sisters of Charity, served from St. Francis Xavier's President (RC)

 

Blind Asylum, Rice House, Leyfield, Liverpool

 

Boys' Orphanage, Beacon Lane, Liverpool, under Sisters of Charity (RC)

 

Boys' Refuge and Night Asylum, 62 St. Anne Street, Liverpool, served from St. Mary of the Angels

 

Boys’  industrial school, St. George's, West Derby Road, Liverpool (served from St. Michael's)

 

Catholic Benevolent Society (founded 1810), Liverpool - to assist the Sick Poor through the Clergy (RC)

 

Consumption Hospital, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, served from the Pro-Cathedral

 

Convalescent Home for Children (West Derby Union), West Derby, served from St. Paul's, West Derby

 

Convalescent Home, Allerton Road, Liverpool

 

Convent of Sisters of the Sacred Hearts: Certified School for mentally defective children, Liverpool

 

Everton Crescent, Liverpool (girls’ night home), under Sisters of Charity, served from St. Mary of the Angels (RC)

 

Falkner Street, Liverpool (girls’ orphanage), under Sisters of Notre Dame, served from the Oratory of St. Philip Neri (RC)

 

Farnworth Nautical School, Liverpool (reformatory school for boys) Known formally as St. Aiden's. (Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association) (RC)

 

Father Berry's Homes (boys), 105 Shaw Street, Liverpool

 

Fazakerley Isolation Hospital, Liverpool

 

Girls' Reformatory School, May Place. Freshfield, Liverpool Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association

 

Girls’ orphanage, Falkner Street, Liverpool, under Sisters of Notre Dame (RC)

 

Girls’ Reformatory, May Place, Old Swan, served from Old Swan (Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association) (RC)

 

Home for Catholic Working Boys, St. George's Auxiliary Home, 47 Everton Road, Liverpool (RC)

 

Hotel Dieu, Waterloo, Liverpool - under Augustine Sisters (hospital) (RC)

 

House of Mercy for Servants out of place, Mount Vernon, Liverpool, under the Sisters of Mercy (RC)

 

House of Providence, Woodlands Road, Liverpool, under Sisters of the Sacred Hearts (RC)

 

 

Knolle Park poor law school, Church Road, Liverpool, under Sisters of St. Catherine.

 

Knolle Park poor law school for girls, Woolton

 

Liverpool Hospital for Consumption, Liverpool. Founded 1864. 44 beds

 

Liverpool Parochial Sanatorium (for consumptives), Heswall. Founded 1902. 24 beds (free treatment available)

 

Liverpool Port Authority Isolation Hospital

 

Liverpool Workhouse Convalescent Home, Luton Street, Liverpool - served from St. Alban's

 

Magdalen Asylum, Paul Street, Liverpool (RC)

 

Magdalen Asylum, Rosemont, Edge Lane, Liverpool, under Poor Servants of the Mother of God (RC)

 

Manor House Epileptic Hospital.

 

May Place, Old Swan, Liverpool (reformatory school for girls)-  under Sisters of Charity (Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association) Opened 1876 (RC)

 

Mill Lane, Highfield House (Epileptics), Highfield Infirmary, served from St. Oswald's, Old Swan

 

Moss Side House Convalescent Home (Liverpool Select Vestry)

 

Nazareth House Home for Destitute Children (Boys), Liverpool

 

Netherfield Road City Hospital, Liverpool - served from Our Lady Immaculate

 

Night home for girls, Limekiln Lane, Liverpool -  under the Poor Servants of the Mother of God (RC)

 

Night Homes for Girls (founded 1890), Everton Crescent, Liverpool  - under the Sisters of Charity, served from St. Mary of the Angels (girls) (RC)

 

Nugent House, Canterbury Street, Liverpool (home for working boys)

 

Nursing and Convalescent Institution, Park House, Waterloo, Liverpool.

 

Orphanage, Beacon Lane, Liverpool

 

Our Lady's House for Homeless Babes, 93 Shaw Street, Liverpool (Father Berry's Homes for Catholic Friendless Children) (RC)

 

Rice House, West Derby, Liverpool (home for blind people)

 

Sisters of Charity. Liverpool (RC)

 

Sisters of Nazareth, Woolton Road, Liverpool (RC)

 

St. Anne's, Freshfield, Liverpool - under Sisters of Charity (girls’  industrial school) (RC)

 

St. Ann's High School, Southport Road, Liverpool. Workhouse and poor law school

 

St. Anthony's Home for Destitute Children, 95, 97 Shaw Street, Liverpool (Father Berry's Homes for Catholic Friendless Children) (RC)

 

St. Augustine's Home, Aigburth Road, Liverpool (Home for the aged poor, under Little Sisters of the Poor) (RC)

 

St. Augustine's Home, Aigburth Road, Liverpool, served from

 

St. Bernard's Training Home for Boys, 119 Shaw Street, Liverpool (Father Berry's Homes for Catholic Friendless Children) (RC)

 

St. Charles', Liverpool (home for aged poor)

 

St. Edward's poor law school for boys, Broad Green, Liverpool

 

St. Elizabeth's Institute (girls’ orphanage and  industrial school), 64 Breckfield Road South, Liverpool - served from St. Michael's - under the Sisters of Mercy (RC)

 

St. George's Auxiliary Home, 47 Everton Road, Liverpool

 

St. George's  industrial school, West Derby Road, Liverpool (boys)

 

St. Helen's Hospital, Liverpool

 

St. Joseph's Home (founded 1874), Belmont Road, Liverpool (Home for the aged poor, under Little Sisters of the Poor) (RC)

 

St. Joseph's Home for Servants out of place, Everton Crescent, Liverpool, under Sisters of Charity (RC)

 

St. Philip's Home for Street Trading Boys, Marble Street, Liverpool. Opened 1892. Opened by Father Berry under the Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protection Society (RC)

 

St. Vincent's Home for Working Boys, 105 Shaw Street (Father Berry's Homes for Catholic Friendless Children) (RC)

 

Toxteth Union, Liverpool - served from St. Hugh's

 

 

 

 MANCHESTER 

 

85 Rumford Street, Oxford Street, Manchester (home for girls)

 

Home for Working Boys, Fairy Hill, Waterloo Road, Manchester (under Catholic Protection and Rescue Society) (RC)

 

 industrial school for Boys, Richmond Grove, Manchester

 

Orphanage for boys, Richmond Grove, Manchester

 

Partington Convalescent Homes, Manchester

 

Richmond Grove, Manchester  (orphanage for boys – served from St Joseph’s, Longsight)

 

St Joseph’s Convent, St Vincent Street, Ancoats (home for girls)


St. Gerard's Home (for Waifs and Strays), Denmark Road, Manchester (under Catholic Protection and Rescue Society)

 

St. Joseph's Convent, Victoria Park, Manchester (orphanage and industrial school for girls) (RC)

 

 OTHER 

 

Blackbrook House, St. Helens, under Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Mary ( industrial school for girls) (RC)

 

Broughton Road, Preston  (Home for the aged poor, under Little Sisters of the Poor) (RC)

 

Buckley Hall, near Rochdale (Brothers of Charity) (boys) (under Catholic Protection and Rescue Society) (RC)

 

Country Hospital for Chronic Diseases of Children, Heswall, Deeside, Lancs

 

Delaware Sanatorium (for consumptives), Birch Hill, Lancs. Founded 1905. 90 beds

 

Dingle Hospital for female epileptics, Burnley - served from Our Lady of Mount Carmel

 

Fylde Union Workhouse

 

Greenfield House (poor law school for girls), Birchley, Wigan

 

Holly Mount, Tottington, near Bury (girls) (Sisters of Charity of Jesus and Mary) (under Catholic Protection and Rescue Society) (RC)

 

Infectious Hospital, Litherland, Sefton. Served from St. Elizabeth's

 

Leyfield poor law school, West Derby, under Sisters of Charity (RC)

 

Liverpool Sanatorium (for consumptives), Roughhill, Kingswood, Lancs. Founded 1901. 40 beds

 

Magdalen Asylum, Ford and Wavertree, near Liverpool, under Sisters of the Good Shepherd (RC)

 

Manchester Hospital for consumptives, Bowdon, Lancs. Founded 1875. 50 beds

 

Nazareth House, Ditton, Widnes (RC)

 

 

Nazareth House, Great Crosby, Ditton, Lancaster for Destitute, Crippled, and Incurable Children (RC)

 

Nazareth House, Great Crosby, Sefton, Lancashire (RC)

 

Nazareth House, Lancaster (RC)

 

Nazareth House, Wavertree : for Destitute, Crippled, and Incurable Children and, when space permits, for Aged Poor of both sexes (RC)

 

Pontville, Ormskirk (poor law school for defective children)

 

poor law school for boys, Fulwood, Preston

 

poor law school for girls, Moorfields, Preston

 

poor law school, Greenfield House, Merseyside - Sisters of Charity of St Paul (RC)

 

Prescot Union (Whiston) Workhouse, served from Prescot.

 

Prestwich Home for Little Children, Nazareth House, Prestwich (home for Children under 12) (under Catholic Protection and Rescue Society) (RC)

 

Princes Street, Blackburn (Missionary Sisters of St. Joseph) (home for Children under 12) (under Catholic Protection and Rescue Society) (RC)

 

Providence Hospital (founded 1882), St. Helen's, under Poor Servants of the Mother of God (RC)

 

Rainhill Lunatic Asylum, served from Portico, Prescot.

 

Sisters of Mercy, Green Lane, Wavertree

 

St. Aidan's Nautical Training School, Farnworth, near Widnes (known as the Farnworth Nautical Reformatory) Opened 1907. Boys. Run by the Liverpool Catholic Refomatory Association (RC)

 

St. Bridget's Orphanage, Cross and Passion Convent, 43 Crescent, Salford (for girls) (RC)

 

St. George's, Nelson, under Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Ghost (under Catholic Protection and Rescue Society) (RC)

 

St. Joseph's Home, Patricroft, Eccles (home for Children under 12) (under Catholic Protection and Rescue Society) (RC)

 

St. Joseph's orphanage for girls, Theatre Street, Preston, under Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy (RC)

 

St. Joseph's Sick Institution (founded 1871), Mount Street, Preston, under Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy (RC)

 

St. Thomas's Home, Tulketh Hall, Preston. industrial school and Home for friendless Boys, under the Brothers of Charity (RC)

 

St. Vincent's School, Fulwood.

 

Warrington Union industrial school, served from Woolston.

 

Westmorland Sanatorium (for consumptives). Meathop, Lancs. Founded 1900. 28 beds (free treatment available)

 

Wigan Sanatorium and Small pox Hospital.

 

Workhouse (Wigan Union)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  LEICESTERSHIRE  

 

 

Dominican Sisters, Leicester (girls) (RC)

 

Franciscan Tertiaries, Melton Mowbray (girls) (RC)

 

Isolation Hospital, Leicester

 

Lunatic Asylum, Leicester

 

Sisters of Providence, Loughborough (girls)

 

 

  LINCOLNSHIRE  

 

Home for Girls, Great Grimsby

 

Industrial Training School, Great Grimsby

 

Sisters of St. Joseph, Great Grimsby (girls)

 

Sisters of St. Joseph, Lincoln (girls)

 

 

 

  LONDON  

 

 

 

 

Association for the Care of Catholic Crippled Children, 18 Egerton Terrace, London SW (RC)

 

Asylum for Aged Poor, Meadow Road, South Lambeth - Little Sisters of the Poor (RC)

 

Belgrave Hospital for Children, Clapham Road, London

 

Bethlehem Asylum, St George’s Fields, Southwark (also known as Bethlem Royal Hospital, St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam). Founded 1247 as an institution for poor people, developed into an institution for insane people and finally a psychiatric asylum. (Moved to West Wickham in 1930)

 

Bridge  industrial school for Feeble-minded boys, London (run by the Metropolitan Asylum Board)

 

Brompton Hospital for Consumptives, Fulham Road, London. Founded 1841. 321 beds (linked to this hospital was a convalesent home for recovering patients - Heatherside)

 

Brompton Sanatorium, Frimley

 

Camberwell House Asylum, Peckham Road, London

 

Catholic Emigration Society, London

 

Certified Household Training Home, 37 Aynhoe Road, West London

 

Children's Hospital, Hackney Road, London

 

Children's Hospital, Paddington Green, London

 

Children's Infirmary, Hither Green

 

City of London Hospital for Diseases of the chest, Victoria Park, London. Founded 1848. 164 beds (consumption sanatorium)

 

City of London Hospital for Diseases of the chest, Victoria Park, London. Founded 1848. 164 beds (consumption sanatorium)

 

City of London Union Workhouse, Bow Road

 

Convalescent Home, Hanwell, West London

 

Convalescent Home, Twyford Abbey, Park Royal, London

 

Convent and orphanage, Cromwell Hill, London (RC)

 

Convent and School of Sisters of Providence, 76 Devonshire Road, London (RC)

 

Convent of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary, Bethell Avenue, London. At this convent young girls had work in embroidery, carpet-making, etc. (RC)

 

Convent of Mercy, Whitta Road, London

 

Convent of Providence, Hampstead Green, London (poor law school for girls) (RC)

 

Convent of Sisters of Charity (under St. Vincent of Paul), Little Ealing Lane, South Ealing, London (RC)

 

Convent of the Most Holy Sacrament, Brompton Branch of the International Catholic Society for Protecting Girls, 35 Brompton Square, London SW (RC)

 

Convent, Little Ealing Lane, West London, (125 beds for girls) (run by the Incorporated Society of the Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children) (RC)

 

Daughters of the Cross, St Joseph's School, 50 Brook Green, London. Served from the Holy Trinity Church

 

East End Mothers' Home, 39 Commercial Road, London

 

East Ham Diphtheria and Fever Hospital, Walthamstow, London

Eastern Fever Hospital, London (run by the Metropolitan Asylums Board - MAB)

 

Exmouth Training Ship, London (run by the Metropolitan Asylum Board)

 

Free Home for the Dying, Clapham, London

 

French Hospital, Servants of the Sacred Heart, Shaftesbury Avenue, London (for  Huguenot descendants -  members of the French Protestant Church, who left France in the 17th and 18th centuries to escape persecution) Founded 1867

 

Friedenheim, Hampstead, London (hospital)

 

Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, Norwood

 

Home for Girls, 9 Lower Seymour Street, London

 

Home for Consumptive Females, Paddington, London

 

Home for Working Boys, 5-17 Westminster Bridge-road, SE London

 

Home for Working Girls, 26 Bow Road, East London

 

Home for Working Girls, 654 Rotherhithe Street, London

 

Home of Providence Night Refuge, London

 

Hospital for Incurables, Streatham Common

 

Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, Sisters of  Mercy, 40 Grove End Road, St. John's Wood, London

 

House of Mercy, St. Edward's Convent, Blandford Square, London NW

 

 Industrial school for Girls, Nazareth House, Isleworth, Hounslow

 

Infirmary for Consumption, Margaret Street, London. Linked to Richmond House for convalescing patients

 

Institution for young men, 10 Elms Road, Clapham (Brothers of St Gabriel)

 

Isolation Hospital, Westbourne

 

Italian Hospital, Sisters of Charity, 41 Queen Square, London WC (RC)

 

Ladies' Settlement, 109-111, St. George's Road, Lambeth, London

 

LCC (London County Council) Lunatic Asylum, Bexley

 

Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, London

 

Little Sisters of the Poor, Manor Road, Stoke Newington, London (RC)

 

Little Sisters of the Poor, Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London (RC)

 

Lunatic Asylum, London

 

Lying-in Hospital, City Road, London

 

Lying-in Hospital, Endell Street, London

 

MAB School, High Wood, London - for Ophthalmia and feeble-minded girls (run by the Metropolitan Asylum Board)

 

MAB Brook Fever Hospital, Shooter's Hill (Metropolitan Asylum Board)

 

Marist Convent, 727 High Road, Tottenham, London (orphanage for girls)

 

 

 

 

 

Metropolitan Asylum Home Fever Hospital, Stockwell.

 

Metropolitan Asylum Board South Eastern Fever Hospital, New Cross

 

Metropolitan Asylum Board Tooting Bec Imbecile Asylum

 

Mount Vernon Country Branch Hospital, Northwoods (referred from Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumptives, London)

 

Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumptives, Hampstead. London. Founded 1860. 120 beds

 

 

Nazareth House, Hammersmith, London - Poor Sisters of Nazareth (for the elderly and children in need) (RC)

 

Nazareth House, Isleworth, Hounslow - Poor Sisters of Nazareth (for the elderly and children in need. Certified as an industrial school) (RC

 

Nazareth House, Richmond Road, London (RC)

 

North Eastern Fever Hospital, Stamford Hill, London (run by the Metropolitan Asylum Board)

 

North London Fever Hospital, London (run by the Metropolitan Asylums Board)

 

Northern Convalescent Fever Hospital, Winchmore Hill, London (run by the Metropolitan Asylum Board)

 

Orphanage for girls – Norwood

 

Orphanage for girls - St. Mary's, Roehampton

 

Orphanage, Hassett Road, Homerton, London NE (poor law school for girls)

 

Peckham Asylum, Peckham Road

 

Pield Heath House, Hillingdon (for ‘defective’ girls)

 

Providence Night Refuge (for Men, Women, and Children), Crispin Street, East London (Incorporated Society of the Crusade of Rescue)

 

Receiving Home, 48 Compton Street, Russell Square, London (Incorporated Society of the Crusade of Rescue, and Homes for Destitute Children)

 

Reformatory School for Boys, St. John's, Walthamstow, London

 

Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, City Road, London. Founded 1814. 80 beds

 

Royal Hospital for Incurables, Putney

 

Salesian Institution, Battersea, S.W.London (boys)

 

Sanatorium and Fever Hospital, London

 

Sisters of Charity (under protection of SVP – St Vincent de Paul), 45 Avenue Road, London (RC)

 

Sisters of Charity (under protection of SVP – St Vincent de Paul), 40 Rothschild Road, London. Hand laundry and creche (RC)

 

Sisters of Charity of St. Paul, 3 High Road, London (RC)

 

Sisters of Charity, 6 Eastbrook Place, London  (Home for boys and girls)

 

Sisters of Charity, 642 Commercial Road, London

 

Sisters of Charity, 9 Lower Seymour Street, West London (orphanage for girls)

 

Sisters of Charity, Carlisle Place, Victoria Street, London SW (orphanage for girls and workroom)

 

Sisters of Charity, Church Road, London

 

Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, the Convent, London Road, London - Boarding and Day School (RC)

 

Southwark Rescue Society and Workhouse Association, Westminster Bridge Road, SE London

 

St Anne's, Feltham, Hounslow. Founded 1905 by the Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children. Closed in 1950s

 

St Luke’s House, NW London (hospital)

 

St Peter’s Home, Kilburn, London (hospital)

 

St, Mary's home for girls, Walthamstow (founded 1859 by the Crusade of Rescue Homes for Orphans and Destitute Children)

 

St. Andrew's, Dollis Hill. London

 

St. Anne's Home (St. Pancras Workhouse).

 

St. Anne's Home, Portobello Road, West London (for ophthalmic girls)

 

St. Anthony's Home for Boys, Hatton, near Feltham, Hounslow (200 beds) (run by the Incorporated Society of the Crusude of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children) Opened 1905, closed 1950s

 

St. Benedict's School for Boys, Orchard Dene, Blakesley Avenue, London

 

St. Catherine's Home for orphan boys, Watford

 

St. Catherine's Home for orphan girls, Watford

 

St. Edward's School, Totteridge, North London (poor law school for girls)

 

St. Elizabeth's Convent, London

 

St. George's Boys' Home (for working boys), 5 - 17 Westminster Bridge Road

 

St. George's Home, Hintonburgh, Ottawa, Canada, for emigrated children (run by the Incorporated Society of the Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children) (RC)

 

St. John's Reformatory School, London

 

St. Joseph's Convalescent Home, London

 

St. Joseph's Home for Boys, Holtwhites Hill, Enfield (opened 1890 - 180 beds) (run by the Incorporated Society of the Crusude of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children) (RC)

 

St. Joseph's home for children, Rose Lane, Stepney. Opened in 1876 by the Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children (RC)

 

St. Joseph's Hospice for the Dying, Sisters of Charity, Mare Street, Hackney, London (RC)

 

St. Joseph's School, 50 Brook Green, West London (poor law school for girls)

 

St. Mary's Home for Working Girls, 64 Lambeth Road, London

 

St. Mary's Home, 41 Brook Green Road, Hammersmith, West London (orphanage for girls)

 

St. Mary's Hospital for Women and Children, Plaistow, London

 

St. Mary's Orphanage, North Hyde, Southall, Ealing, London (approx 300 children). Founded by the Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children

 

St. Nicholas's  industrial school, Manor Park, London (founded 1862 by the  Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children) (RC)

 

St. Pancras Workhouse Infirmary, London (includes a Convalescent Hospital for Children)

 

St. Patrick's Home for working boys, 14 Manette Street, Soho, West London (opened 1900 - 100 beds) (run by the Incorporated Society of the Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children)

 

St. Vincent's Cripples' Home, Eastcote, London

 

St. Vincent's Home, Hammersmith (est. 1859 by the Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children) Moved to Harrow Road in 1876 (RC)

 

St. Vincent's School (poor law school for infant boys), Mill Hill, London

 

St. Vincent's, Church Street, Kensington, West London (orphanage for girls)

 

St. Vincent's, Feltham, Hounslow. Founded 1905 by the Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children. Closed in 1950s (RC)

 

St. Winifrid's Elementary School, Church Road, London

 

Stepney Children's Receiving Home, Barnes Street, Ratcliff, London

 

Surgical and Medical Home, Mayfair, West London, with Convalescent Home, Hampstead

 

The Crusade of Rescue for Girls based at the Convent of Sisters of Charity, Little Ealing Lane, South Ealing, London

 

Tooting Home for Aged Poor.

 

Training Ship ‘Ganges II’, London

 

Upton House Truant School, London

 

Walthamstow General Hospital, London

 

Walthamstow House, Walthamstow, London (poor law school for girls)

 

West Ham Fever Hospital, London

 

West Ham Truant School, London

 

Westminster Diocesan Education Fund for Poor Children

 

St. Charles's School, Brentwood, London (poor law school for boys) Opened 1884. It was run at different rimes by the Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul and the Christian Brothers and the Crusade of Rescue and Homes for Destitute Children. Closed in 1954.

 

St. Helen's Orphanage, St. Thomas' Road, Brentwood (boys)

 

Preservation Home, Brentford (orphanage for girls)

 

 

 

 

  NORFOLK  

 

 

Kelling Sanatorium (for consumptives), Holt, Norfolk. Founded 1903. 42 beds (free treatment available)

 

Mundesley Sanatorium (for consumptives), Mundesley, Norfolk. Founded 1899 31 (free treatment available)

 

The Beeches (sanatorium for consumptives), Long Stratton, Norfolk. Founded 1900. 35 beds

 

 

  NORTH RIDING  

 

Convalescent Home, Whitby, under the Sisters of Mercy (RC)

 

Poor Law school, Middlesborough – under the Poor Sisters of Nazareth (RC)

 

 

  NORTHAMPTONSHIRE  

 

 

Asylum for Aged Poor and destitute Children, Nazareth House, Leicester Road, Northampton (also certified as a Poor Law School).

 

Berry Wood Asylum, Northampton

 

Convent of the Sisters of Charity, Manor House Street, Northampton

 

Nazareth House, Leicester Road, Northampton

 

 

 

  NORTHUMBERLAND  

 

 

City Lunatic Asylum, Coxlodge

 

House of Mercy, Salters Road, Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne

 

Northumberland Sanatorium (for consumptives), Barrasford, Hexham. Founded 1905. 50 beds

 

Orphanage and Poor Law School, Burnfoot - under Sisters of Mercy (RC)

 

Prudhoe Convalescent Home, Whitley Bay

 

St. Joseph's Home, Elswick, Newcastle-on-Tyne (elderly poor)

 

St. Joseph's Home, High Barnes, Sunderland (elderly poor)

 

St. Vincent's Orphanage, Brunei Terrace, Newcastle-on-Tyne (with working boys' home and industrial school for junior girls adjoining) (under the Sisters of Charity) (RC)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  NOTTINGHAMSHIRE  

 

 

City Asylum, Nottingham

 

Nottinghamshire Sanatorium (for consumptives), Mansfield, Notts. Founded 1902. 30 beds (free treatment available)

 

Sisters of Mercy, Nottingham (girls)

 

Sisters of St. Joseph, Nottingham (girls)

 

 

 

  OXFORDSHIRE  

 

Hailey Open-Air Sanatorium (for consumptives), Ipsden, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. Founded 1900. 30 beds

 

Headington Workhouse, Oxford

 

Kingswood Sanatorium (for consumptives), Peppard, Oxfordshire. Founded 1900. 12 beds

 

Littlemore Asylum, Oxford

 

Maitland Cottage Sanatorium (for consumptives), Oxfordshire. Founded 1901. 16 beds

 

Oxford (orphanage for girls)

 

Sisters of Nazareth, Oxford (home for the aged poor) (RC)

 

St. Bernard's Home for Incurables, Bicester, Oxon

 

 

  SCOTLAND  

 

 

 

 

Ayrshire Sanatorium for consumptives, Ashmark, Ayrshire. Founded 1905. 12 beds

 

Banchory Sanatorium for consumptives, Banchory, Kincardineshire. Founded 1900. 52 beds

 

Bellefield Sanatorium for consumptives, near Lanark, Lanarkshire. Founded 1904. 30 beds

 

Bridge of Weir Sanatorium for consumptives, Renfrewshire. Founded 1898. 80 beds

 

Caverhill Sanatorium for consumptives, Near Peebles, Peebleshire. Founded 1904. 14 beds

 

Children's Refuge, 48 Minto Street, Edinburgh

 

Children's Refuge, Bellevue, Rutherglen.

 

Grampian Sanatorium for consumptives, Kingussie, Inverness. Founded 1901. 20 beds

 

Hillside Home Consumption Sanatorium, Barnhill, Perthshire. Founded 1901. 20 beds

 

Home for Working Boys, 52 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh

 

House of Mercy for Servants out of place, and for the training of Girls of good character, Lauriston Gardens, Edinburgh

 

 Industrial school for Boys, Kenmure, Bishopriggs

 

 Industrial school for Girls, Dalbeth, Glasgow

 

 Industrial schoolfor boys Slatefield Sreet, Glasgow

 

 Industrial school for Girls, 74 Abercromby Street

 

 Industrial schooll for Girls, Nazareth House, Aberdeen

 

Ochil Hills Sanatorium for consumptives, Milnathort, Kinrossshire. Founded 1902. 60 beds

 

Orphanage for Boys, Aberdeen

 

Orphanage for Girls, Aberdeen

 

Paisley Sanatorium for consumptives, Renfrewshire. Founded 1898. 80 beds

 

Probation Home for Boys, 22 Market Street, Glasgow

 

Reformatory School for Boys, Westthorn, Tollcross, Glasgow

 

Royal Victoria Hospital for Consumption, Craigleith, Edinburgh. Founded 1894. 102 beds (free treatment available)

 

Sacred Heart Home for Penitents, Liberton, Edinburgh

 

Sidlaw Sanatorium for consumptives, Auchterhouse, Forfarshire. Founded 1903. 40 beds

 

St. Anne's Convalescent Home, Musselburgh

 

St. Anne's Dispensary and Home for Respectable Girls, 26 George Square, Edinburgh

 

St. Joseph's  industrial school and Boys' Orphanage, Tranent

 

St. Mary's Orphanage, Smyllum, Lanark.

 

St. Teresa's Girls' Orphanage, 18 Morningside Road, Edinburgh

 

St. Vincent's Home for Destitute Children, 9 Upper Gray Street, Edinburgh

 

Woodburn Sanatorium for consumptives, Morningside, Edinburgh. Founded 1899. 24 beds

 

Working Boys' Home: 11 Oak Street, Glasgow

 

Working Boys' Home: 21 Whitevale Street, Glasgow

 

Working Girls' Home, 26 Magdalen Yard Road, Dundee

 

 

 

 

 

 

  SHROPSHIRE  

 

 

House of Mercy, Shrewsbury - for training domestic servants

 

 

 

  SOMERSETSHIRE  

 

 

Engel Home (Sanatorium for consumptives), Cheddar, Somersetshire

 

 industrial school for Boys, Cannington

 

Luftkur Sanatorium (for consumptives), Portbury, Somersetshire. Founded 1904

 

Mendip Hills Sanatorium (for consumptives), Mendip Hill, Somersetshire. Founded 1900. 20 beds

 

Nordrach upon Mendip Sanatorium (for consumptives), Mendip Hills, Somersetshire. Founded 1899. 40 beds

 

Orphanage for Girls - Minehead

 

Orphanage for girls - Taunton

 

St Michael’s Home (Sanatorium for consumptives),  Axbridge, Somersetshire

 

St Mary’s home for boys, North Hyde, Southall (founded 1864 by the Crusade of Rescue Homes for Orphans and Destitute Children)

 

 

 

  STAFFORDSHIRE  

 

 

Birmingham Diocesan Rescue Society, for the Protection and Rescue of Destitute Catholic Children

 

Catholic Working Boys' Home, 102 Moseley Road, Birmingham - known as St Vincent's

 

Convent of Mercy, Lowe Street, Camp Hill, Birmingham

 

Convent of Our Lady of Mercy, Handsworth.

 

Convent of St. Chad, 16 Whittall Street, Birmingham

 

County Asylum, Burntwood, nr Lichfield

 

County Asylum, Cheddleton

 

County Asylum, Staffordshire

 

Edgbaston orphanage for boys

 

Fever and Smallpox Hospital

 

Hednesford Accident Home, Stoke on Trent

 

Hospital of St Dominic, for incurable female patients, Stone.

 

House of Retreat for Working Girls. Retreat of the Sacred Heart (from Bruges). 24 Wheeley Road, Edgbaston.

 

Isolation Hospital, Staffordshire

 

Little Sisters of the Poor, Cobridge. Stoke on Trent (home for the aged poor) )RC)

 

Monyhull Colony for Epileptics, Kings Norton

 

Orphanage and Training Home, Brougham Street, Birmingham

 

Orphanage for boys, Edgbaston

 

Sisters of Charity of St. Paul, Vernon Road, Edgbaston

 

Sisters of Charity, Birmingham (home for girls)

 

Sisters of Charity, St. Anthony's, Shadwell Street, Birmingham

 

Sisters of Charity. St. Anthony's Home, Vicarage Road, Edgbaston (Home for girls)

 

Sisters of Nazareth, Selly Park (orphanage for girls)

 

Sisters of Nazareth, Nazareth House.

 

St. Joseph's Convent, Forebridge, Stafford

 

St. Joseph's Home, Harborne (home for the aged poor)

 

St. Margaret's Home for Incurables. North Staffordshire

 

St. Mary's Convent of Mercy. Orphanage for Girls, Staffs

 

St. Mary's Convent, Maryvale, Old Oscott (orphanage for girls)

 

St. Mary's Refuge, Northfield, Birmingham

 

Wolverhampton (orphanage for girls)

 

Women's Hospital, Showell Green

 

 

 

  SUFFOLK  

 

 

Borough and County Asylum, Ipswich

 

East Anglian Sanatorium (for consumptives), Nayland, Suffolk 1900 (a sanatorium for poorer classes in grounds – men do farm work and women do housekeeping)

 

Orphanage for Girls, St. Mary's Convent, Albion Hill, Ipswich (also certified as a Poor Law School)

 

St Mary’s Convent, Albion Hill, Ipswich – with boarding school, poor School, and orphanage attached

 

St. Mary's Convent, Albion Hill, Ipswich (orphanage for girls and certified poor law school).

 

 

 

  SURREY  

 

 

Belmont Lunatic Asylum. Founded in 1853 on Brighton Road, Sutton as an orphanage and poor law school for children Greenwich, Camberwell and Woolwich. It closed as an orphanage in 1902 and later became a psychiatric hsopital which closed in the 1980s.

 

Brookwood County Asylum, Woking, Surrey. Founded 1867.

 

Cane Hill Surrey County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Coulsdon. Opened 1882

 

Crooksbury Ridges Sanatorium (for consumptives), Farnham, Surrey. Founded 1900. 24 beds

 

Croydon Mental Hospital, Warlingham

 

Earlswood Asylum, Redhill

 

Faithful Virgin, Norwood, Surrey (for girls) (Poor Law School — for Children from Workhouses) (RC)

 

Heatherside Sanatorium and Convalescent Home, Camberley, Surrey. Founded 1904. 100 beds (free) Attached to Brompton Hospital for Consumption

 

Holloway's Sanatorium, Virginia Water

 

 Industrial school for Girls, Croydon

 

Isolation Hospital, Guildford

 

Isolation Hospital, Beddington

 

London County Asylum, Banstead

 

London County Council Asylum, Cane Hill, Coulsdon

 

MAB Asylum for Imbeciles, Caterham

 

MAB The Children’s Infirmary, Carshalton Beeches. Surrey  (renamed Queen Mary's Hospital for Children after 1914 when Queen Mary visitied) 1909-1993

 

MAB, 44 The Downs’ Schools, Sutton

 

Manor Hospital / Manor Asylum, Epsom, Surrey (London County Council – LCC). Opened 1899. For the treatment of people detained under the Lunacy Act.

 

Meath Convalescent Home for Epileptics, Godalming (Founded 1892 and named after the Countess of Meath).

 

Netherne County Asylum

 

Ockley Sanatorium (for consumptives), Ockley, Surrey. Founded 1903. 12 beds

 

Refuge for Penitents. Convents of the Poor Servants of the Mother of God — Russell House, Streatham, Surrey

 

Royal Cambridge Asylum, Kingston

 

Tolworth Isolation Hospital, Kingston upon Thames

 

Walton Convalescent Home, Weybridge

 

Whitmead Hill Sanatorium (for consumptives), Tilford, Surrey. Founded 1899. 20 beds

 

Woodhurst Sanatorium (for consumptives), Dorking, Surrey. Founded 1902. 16 beds

 

 

  SUSSEX  

 

Asylum for Aged Poor, Old Shoreham Road, Brighton

 

Brighton Borough County Asylum, Haywards Heath

 

Brighton Sanatorium

 

Convalescent Home, Rottingdean.

 

Convalescent Home, Worthing

 

Eversfield Hospital (for consumptives), St Leonards on Sea, Sussex. Founded 1884. 55 beds

 

French Convalescent Home, Brighton - convalescent care for people in the French Hospital, London. Founded 1895.

 

Holy Trinity orphanage, Mayfield, Sussex (for boys of better class)

 

Home for Crippled and Invalid Children, St. Anne's Home, Brighton

 

Home for Mental Maladies, St. George's Retreat, Burgess Hill, Sussex (for paying patients, ladies only).

 

King Edward VII Sanatorium (for consumptives), Easebourne, Midhurst, Sussex. Founded 1905. 100 beds

 

Metropolitan Asylum Board for sick and convalescent children, Milfield, Rustington

 

Orphanage for Boys, Holy Trinity, Mayfield, Sussex (for boys of better class)

 

Orphanage for Boys, Littlehampton

 

Orphanage for Boys, West Grinstead

 

Orphanage for girls - Bexhill

 

Orphanage for girls - Brighton

 

Orphanage for girls - Holy Trinity, Mark Cross, Sussex (for girls of better class)

 

Orphanage for girls - Littlehampton

 

Orphanage for girls - Midhurst

 

Orphanage for girls - Uckfield

 

Orphanage for girls – Worthing

 

 

Refuge for Penitents, Manor House, Portslade

 

Richmond House Convalescent Home – Worthing, Sussex (for patients of the Infirmary for Consumption and Diseases for the Throat and Chest, Margaret Street, London W)

 

Rudgwick Sanatorium (for consumptives), Rudgwick, Sussex. Founded 1900. 14 beds

 

Rustington Convalescent Home.

 

Servants of the Sacred Heart - French Convalescent Home, Brighton

 

Sisters of Nazareth, Bexhill on Sea (poor elderly)

 

St. Elizabeth's Training Home for Servants, Midhurst (Poor Law School — for Children from Workhouses)

 

St. Joseph's, Littlehampton (boys)

 

St. Joseph's, West Grinstead (boys)

 

St. Marys Convalescent Home, Westbrooke, Worthing - under Sisters of Mercy

 

St. Mary's Orphanage for Boys, West Grinstead

 

St. Philip's Orphanage for Girls, Uckfield - Sisters of Mercy.

 

St. Thomas's, York Road, London General Lying-in

 

Warren Farm Poor Law School, Brighton

 

West Sussex County Asylum, Westbourne

 

Winter Home for Consumptive Girls, St Leonards on Sea, Sussex

 

 

 

 

 

  WALES  

 

Cardiff Mental Hospital

 

Fever Hospital, Cardiff

 

Home for Convalescents (consumptives), Haner y Ffordd, Queens Park, Colwyn Bay

 

House of Mercy, Lamphey, St Davids, Pembrokshire

 

Nazareth House, St. David's Convent, Cardiff (inclues a poor law school for girls)

 

Nordrach, Pendyffryn Hall, Capelulo, Penmaemawr. Founded 1900 (Sanatorium for consumptives)

 

Orphanage and Poor Law School of St. Clare at Pantasapli for girls, under the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy

 

St. Michael's Home, Swansea - certified Poor Law School for boys

 

St. Michael's Home, Treforest, Pontypridd (Boys) - certified for children from the workhouse

 

Tan y Geulan, Llanfairfechan - Home for Convalescents (consumptives)

 

Vale of Clwyd Sanatorium for consumptives, Llanbedr Hall, Ruthin, Denbigh. Founded 1901 19

 

Yllis House, Clydach-on-Tawe (poor law school for boys and girls)

 

 

 

  WARWICKSHIRE  

 

Aston Union Workhouse (incorporating the Chapel of St Joseph), run by Aston Poor Law Union

 

Catherine-de-Barnes Isolation Hospital, Henwood Lane, Catherine-de-Barnes (opened 1910 by Solihull District Council)

 

Coleshill orphanage for boys Birmingham Diocesan Rescue Society

 

Josiah Mason's Orphanage, Erdington, Birmingham

 

Monks Kirby, Warwickshire (orphanage for girls)

 

Orphanage for boys - St Edwards Home for Boys, Coleshill Birmingham Diocesan Rescue Society

 

St. John's Home, Gravelly Hill. Conducted by Sisters of Charity of St Paul (RC)

 

Warwick County Asylum, Hatton

 

 

  WEST RIDING  

 

Airedale and Wharfedale Isolation Hospital

 

Asylum for Aged Poor, Belle Vue Road, Leeds - Little Sisters of the Poor

 

Asylum for Aged Poor, Sheffield.

 

Bootham Lunatic Asylum, York (Became Bootham Park Hospital)

 

Boys’  industrial school - School of the Good Shepherd, Shibden, near Halifax

 

Bradford Sanatorium (for consumptives), Eastby, Yorkshire. Founded 1903

 

Cangrate Fever Hospital

 

Catholic Girls’ Protection Home, St Monica's, 179 Belle Vue Road, Leeds (Diocesan Rescue and Protection Society) (RC)

 

Catholic Rescue Home, St Margaret's, 15 Mount Preston, Leeds (Diocesan Rescue and Protection Society)

 

Clifton Lunatic Asylum, Calderdale

 

County and Fever Hospitals, York

 

Girls’  industrial school - St. Joseph's Home, Howard Hill, Sheffield

 

Home for Working Girls, Leeds

 

House of Mercy, Horbury, Wakefield

 

Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, Boston Spa (under the Sisters of Charity)

 

Kirkedge Moor, near Sheffield Temporary premises for boys' reformatory to replace the Reformatory Ship Clarence and St, Aiden's 1899-1907/8, Run by Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association

 

Leeds Hopital for Consumptives, Armley, Yorks. Founded 1903. 20 beds (free treatment available)

 

Leeds Sanatorium for consumptives. Gateforth Hall. Founded 1901. 32 beds (free treatment available)

 

Mount St Mary’s Orphanage for girls, Richmond Hill, Leeds under the Sisters of Mary Immaculate. Founded in 1863 by the Leeds Diocesan Rescue Society. Closed in 1950s. (RC)

 

Poor Law School for boys, Carr Street, Leeds

 

Sanatorium, Eldwick, Bingley

 

School of the Good Shepherd, Shibden, near Halifax ( industrial school for boys)

 

St. Joseph's Home, Howard Hill, Sheffield ( industrial school for girls)

 

St. Vincent's Boys' Home, Leeds. Founded c.1863 by the Leeds Diocesan Rescue Society  (with an extension used as an  industrial school)

 

West Riding Asylum, Burley

 

West Riding Asylum, Menston

 

 

 

  WILTSHIRE  

 

Industrial school for girls, Salisbury (Sisters of Charity).

 

Royal Victoria Memorial Sanatorium (for consumptives), Winsley, Wiltshire. Founded 1904. 60 beds (free treatment available)

 

 

  WORCESTERSHIRE  

 

Midland Open Air Sanatorium (for consumptives), Bourne Castle, Belbroughton, Bromsgrove. Founded 1901. 20 beds

 

Worcestershire Sanatorium (for consumptives), Knightwick, Worcs. Founded 1902. 16 beds (free treatment available)

 

 

 

 

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GLOSSARY

 

 

Asylums

 

We tend to think of asylums as places where people with mental illness are sent. In the nineteenth century the term was used much more broadly suggesting a general residential institution such as a children's home or orphanage.

 

 

 

Birmingham Diocesan Rescue Society

 

This Catholic organisation was founded in 1902 and is now known as Father Hudson's Society or Father Hudson's Care/ Still in existence today, their website is: www.fatherhudsons.org.uk

 

 

 

Catholic Protection and Rescue Society

(also known as the Catholic Protection and Rescue Society for orphans and homeless children)

 

Based in the Diocese of Salford, this was founded in 1886 by Bishop Vaughn (1872-1892). In 2010, this organisation became part of Caritas Diocese of Salford www.caritassalford.org.uk

 

 

 

Consumption

 

Another name for tuberculosis or TB.

 

 

 

Cottage Homes

 

The cottage homes were built by Poor Law Unions as children's homes to take children out of the workhouse.

 

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Cottage Hospital

 

These were established in the 19th century as small local, often rural, hospitals which achieved funding through Poor Law legislation or local philanthropists to provide care for those who otherwise could not afford it.

 

 

 

Crusade of Rescue

 

This was established in 1859 and set up its first two homes in that year - St Mary's for girls in Walthamstow and St Vincent's in Hammersmith for boys. In 1985, the Crusade of Rescue became the Catholic Children’s Society (Westminster) which is still functioning today.
http://www.cathchild.org.uk/

 

 

 

 Farm School

 

Farm schools were generally used for training children in farming skills - a working farm on which the children could do their learning while themselves working. They were generally a form of industrial school or reformatory (see below).

 

 

 

Father Berry's Homes for Friendless Catholic Children

 

Under the Liverpool Catholic Children's Protection Society (founded 1881), Father John Berry set up his first home in 1892 - St Phlips on Marble Street. He then took over a home in Shaw Street called St Vincent de Paul's House. Other homes on Shaw Street followed. Due to ill-health, he had to leave Liverpool in 1897 and the Society changed its name to Homes for Catholic Friendless Youths (Father Berry's Homes) and went on to open two homes in Canada for emigrated children - St. George's Home for Boys, Ottawa and St. Vincent's Home for Girls, Montreal.

 

 

 

Feeble-minded


In the 19th century, this was thought of as a medical term which meant that the oerson had some form of mental impairment - perhaps a learning disability or a mental illness. The British government's Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded (1904–1908), in its Report in 1908 defined the feeble-minded as:
[P]ersons who may be capable of earning a living under favourable circumstances, but are incapable from mental defect, existing from birth or from an early age: (1) of competing on equal terms with their normal fellows, or (2) of managing themselves and their affairs with ordinary prudence.

 

 

 

Fever Hospital

 

Fevers such as small pox and typhus were a massive problem in 19th century London, so much so that fever hispitals were established (through donations from benefactors to keep people with such infectious diseases all in one place - away from other hospitals and the workhouses where the infections may spread. Fever hospitals were also known as isolation hospitals.

 

 

 

Hospitals

 

Some early children's homes were called hospitals. They were not hospitals as we think of them but were more like what we understand as orphanages.

 

 

 

Hotel Dieu

 

Directly translated from the French, this means hostel of God. They were established by the Catholic church as hospitals for the poor.

 

 

 

Houses of Mercy


An institution for 'fallen women', primarily women who were pregnant and not married. They were Anglican organisations set up in the latter part of nineteenth century.

 

 

 

Industrial Schools

 

Unlike reformatories, children sent to industrial schools in the nineteenth century had not been found guilty of a crime but were thought likely to be criminals in the future (because of their circumstances or the company they kept) and so were sent to industrial schools for discipline and training. In later years, certainly by 1911, the difference between industrial and reform schools blurred with more children sent to industrial schools by the courts.

 

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International Catholic Society for Protecting Girls (also known as the International Catholic Association of Organisations for the Protection of Girls)


This group was established in 1897 in Switzerland "to meet the needs of young girls who, because of social changes, had to live away from their own families". It is know known as the International Catholic Society for Girls.

 

 

 

Liverpool Catholic Reformatory Association


This was set up in 1863 to fund and manager reform schools. The first reform school it took on was the Ship Reformatory for boys in an fomer warship, the Clarence. This ran until it burnt down in 1899. In 1940, the Association became the Liverpool Catholic Training Schools Association.

 

 

 

Lying-in Hospital


Lying in hospitals were effectively the first dedicated maternity hospitals. The lying-in period was the period after childbirth when it was thought healthy for women to have  a period of bed rest.

 

 

 

Magdalen Asylum aka Mary Magdalene Asylums

Also known as Magdalene Laundries, these Catholic institutions generally took in women who were unmarried and pregnant. The fist Magdalene Laundries opened in London in 1758 (followed by similar institutions in Ireland). Many of these laundries were run as workouses with terrible conditions in them.

 

 

 

Metropolitan Asylums Board (MAB)


The Board was set up by the Poor Laws in 1867 for the population of London who were both ill and poor. In 1930, its role was taken over by the London County Council.

 

 

 

Orphanages


This was a term used to describe (generally large) residential institutions for orphans. Some orphanages adhered strictly to taking in only orphans, others also took in children who had lost only one parent or whose family were destitute.


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Poor Law Schools

 

The Poor Law Act of 1834 provided that poor children, including those in the workhouses should be given a basic education. Further Acts formalised this and increased the amount of education all children should receive. It was this 1834 Act that meant that Poor Law Unions - geographical areas - should send money on providing free education for poor children. Some of these schools were known as Poor Law Schools.

 

 

 

Receiving Home


A receiving home was a short-term home, Children would stay for a matter of days or weeks while they were assessed and a permanent placement could be found. The idea of receiving homes continued until late into the twentieth century.

 

 

 

Reformatories (also called reform schools)

were where children were sent by the courts if found guilty of a crime. They were strict places where children would receive some training in a work-based skill.

 

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Salesian Schools / Institutions


A Roman Catholic ecducation and religius education instituion estacbklished by Salesian Congregation of Saint John Bosco. They were intended for boys who were in need.

 

 

 

Training homes / schools


This was generally used as another term for an industrial school ie. a school or home to which children were sent if it was thought that they may need extra discipline to dissuade them from getting into trouble in the future.

 

 

 

Training Ships

 

A novel take on the industrial school was the industrial training ship. Children would be sent to the ships - there were several in 1901 - in the same way they would be sent to an industrial school. They would receive training appropriate for them to become a sailor.

 

 

 

Truant School

 

Truant schools were, in effect, a form of short-term industrial school. Whereas children were likely to be sent to industrial schools for a number of years, if not the remainder of their childhoods, children who were truanting could be sent for a lesser time to a truant school. In the early twentieth century, the term disappeared and the function merged with that of industrial schools.

 

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Workhouse School

When Poor Law Unions were building separate  residential accommodation for children, distinct from the workhouse, they were often called workhouse schools or Poor Law Schools. Generally, at the beginning of the twentieth century, these workhouse schools were either replaced or renamed as cottage homes or children's homes.

 

 

 

Working boys' and girls' homes

 

The idea behind homes for working children is that they would be a stepping stone between a children's home or orphanage and independent living. Older children would go into the working children's home and be helped into a job from which they would pay the home a proportion of their earnings for their board and lodging The idea continued until the 1970s.

 

 

 

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PLEASE NOTE: The landscape of insututions in the nineteenth and early twentieth cetury was a very complex one and the organisations responsible for these institutions constantly changed (or their names changed). The details given here can be a guide only and cannot be taken as hard fact without further research.