Catalogue description RECORDS OF THE COTTAGE HOME FOR ORPHAN GIRLS, CAMBRIDGE

This record is held by Cambridgeshire Archives

Details of 758
Reference: 758
Title: RECORDS OF THE COTTAGE HOME FOR ORPHAN GIRLS, CAMBRIDGE
Description:

There are 8 items.
Date: 1871-1906
Arrangement:

The scheme used for listing is the standard one of the time, identifying as prefix code Q for records of voluntary organisations.

 

Listed by Anne Cooper June 1983.
Held by: Cambridgeshire Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Cottage Home for Orphan Girls, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Physical description: 8 files
Administrative / biographical background:

Members of St John's College Cambridge first suggested the establishment of a home for destitute girls and in December 1870 a committee advertised the proposal to the town by distributing handbills. A site in Fitzwilliam Road was purchased in April 1871 for £240 and the Cottage Home was built for £475. The first four girls were admitted on 1 January 1872. Spalding's and Kelly's Cambridge Street Directories describe it as the Cottage Home until 1948, when until 1951 it is attributed to the Church of England Children's Society, thereafter as Dr Barnado's Cottage Home. Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely County Council purchased it for a boys' hostel in 1972)
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