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KING EDWARD'S HOSPITAL FUND FOR LONDON


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Reference A/KE
Covering dates 1897-1985
Held by London Metropolitan Archives
Extent 2923 files (Approximately)



Folder icon  Armitage Residential and Recuperative Holiday Home, Worthing; Metropolitan Society for the Blind and Indigent Blind Visiting Society  A/KE/724/4  1954-1965

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Expand   Arthur's Home, Bognor Regis; Shaftesbury Society  A/KE/724/5  1949-1951
No further details   Babies Hospital, Sydenham Hill (formerly Sydenham Invalid Babies' Nursery); Bromley Group Hospital Management Committee  A/KE/724/6  1948-1951
Expand   Baldwin Brown Convalescent and Recovery Home, Camberley; King's College Hospital; includes report of visit to home  A/KE/724/7  1956
No further details   Beech Hill House Children's Convalescent Home, Mortimer, near Reading; British Red Cross Society Berkshire Branch  A/KE/724/8  1948-1952
No further details   Beech Hill House Children's Convalescent Home; file includes illustrated brochure  A/KE/724/9  1952-1960
Expand   Beech Hill House Children's Convalescent Home; file includes copies of Beech Hill Committee of Management minutes  A/KE/724/10  1957-1960
Expand   Belgrave Convalescent Home, Minstead, near Lyndhurst, Hants; moved 1949 to Walton-on-Thames; Belgrave Hospital for Children, King's College Hospital Group  A/KE/724/11  1947-1966
Expand   Brentwood Children's Convalescent Home (Brentwood School), St Leonard's-on-Sea; Invalid Children's Aid Association  A/KE/724/12  1952-1964
Expand   Broadlands, Broadstairs; National Sunday School Union; home closed  A/KE/724/13  1954-1960
Expand   Brook Lane Rest House, Brighton; Bermondsey Medical Mission; home closed  A/KE/724/14  1955-1964
Expand   Brooklands Convalescent Home, Coggeshall, Essex; privately owned  A/KE/724/15/1  1952-1971
Expand   Buckmaster Memorial Home, Broadstairs; independent (for impoverished gentlewomen from Brixton)  A/KE/724/16/1  1949
No further details   Caenwood Towers Highgate; Middlesex Hospital; papers concerning the conversion of the above as a recovery unit  A/KE/724/17  1954-1958
No further details   Capesthorne Babies Convalescent Home, Mudeford, Christchurch; British Red Cross Society Hampshire Branch; papers concerning move from Brooklyn Babies Home, Christchurch to Capesthorne  A/KE/724/18  1948-1951
No further details   Capesthorne Babies Convalescent Home  A/KE/724/19  1948-1954
Expand   Capesthorne Babies Convalescent Home; sold to Wessex Regional Hospital Board 1967  A/KE/724/20/1  1954-1967
No further details   Catharine House for Gentlewomen, St Leonard's-on-Sea (Hastings and St Leonard's Home for Invalid Gentlewomen); independent  A/KE/724/21  1947-1952
No further details   Catharine House for Gentlewomen  A/KE/724/22  1955-1960
No further details   Catisfield House Convalescent Home, Hove; independent  A/KE/724/23  1955-1961
No further details   Chartham Park Convalescent Home, East Grinstead; Westminster Hospital  A/KE/724/24  1947-1950
Expand   Children's Convalescent Home, Beaconsfield, Bucks; Shaftesbury Society  A/KE/724/25  1946-1969
No further details   Children's Home, East Grinstead; independent  A/KE/724/26  1946-1950
Expand   Convalescent Home for Epileptics, Larkshill, Fairwap, near Uckfield, Sussex; National Association for Mental Health  A/KE/724/27  1947-1951
No further details   Convalescent Home for Mental Defectives, 'Lynsted', Walmer, Kent; National Association for Mental Health  A/KE/724/28  1949-1955
Expand   Crole Wyndham Memorial Home for Convalescent Children, Herne Bay; Kent and Canterbury Hospital; from 1948 Canterbury Group HMC  A/KE/724/29/1  1947-1966
Expand   Dame Gertrude Young Memorial Convalescent Home, Castle Bar Hill, Ealing; Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital  A/KE/724/30  1948-1960
No further details   Danesbury, Welwyn, Herts; Barnet Group HMC  A/KE/724/31  1966
Expand   David Salomon's House, Southborough, Kent; Kent County Council; from 1948 Tunbridge Wells Group HMC  A/KE/724/32/1  1947-1971
No further details   Dedisham Convalescent Nursery School, Slinfold, Sussex; independent; papers concerning proposed extension  A/KE/724/33  1947-1949
No further details   Dedisham Convalescent Nursery School; includes note "1950-55 files down in basement"  A/KE/724/34  1955-1959
No further details   Dominican Convent Convalescent Home, Kelvedon, near Colchester  A/KE/724/35  1947-1952
No further details   Eden Cottage Hospital, Hatfield Broad Oak, Essex; includes copy of annual report for 1945; from 1948 Hertford No 1 Group HMC  A/KE/724/36  1945-1956
No further details   Eversley Nursery for Convalescent Children, Hythe, Kent; Invalid Children's Aid Association; from 1948 South East Kent Group HMC  A/KE/724/37  1947-1955
Expand   Frederick Andrew Convalescent Home, West Malling, Kent  A/KE/724/38/1  1955-1966
Expand   Haldane House for Sick Children, Bexhill-on-Sea  A/KE/724/39  1952-1958
No further details   Hapstead House, Buckfastleigh, Devon; Hillaway Houses for Children; from 1967 Devonport Houses for Children  A/KE/724/40  1953-1967
No further details   Hart's Leap (A Convalescent Home for Toddlers), Sandhurst; independent  A/KE/724/41  1946-1952
No further details   Hart's Leap; includes note "1955-57 file downstairs in basement"  A/KE/724/42  1957-1960
Expand   Hart's Leap  A/KE/724/43/1  1960-1969
Expand   Hart's Leap Children's Home; closed 1971  A/KE/724/44/1  1969-1971
Expand   [no title]  A/KE/724/45  1956
Expand   Hermitage Convalescent Home, Hastings; Printers' Medical Aid and Sanatoria Association  A/KE/724/46/1  1955-1969
Expand   Hermitage Convalescent Home; sold by PMA 1970 and reopened as private home  A/KE/724/47/1  1969-1972
No further details   Hermon De Stern Convalescent Home, Felixstowe; London Hospital  A/KE/724/48  1949
No further details   Hertfordshire Sea-Side Convalescent Home, St Leonards-on-Sea; independent  A/KE/724/49  1955-1964
Expand   Hertfordshire Sea-Side Convalescent Home  A/KE/724/50/1  1963-1967
No further details   Highview Nursing Home, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex; privately owned  A/KE/724/51  1954
Expand   Hitchin Convalescent Home, Hitchin, Herts; formerly German Hospital Convalescent Home; from 1948 Luton and Hitchin Group HMC; ceased to be used for convalescence  A/KE/724/52  1948-1957
Expand   Home for Invalid Children, Hove; independent  A/KE/724/53  1952-1963
Expand   Homes not included in the Directory; correspondence, papers, brochures and photographs relating to homes excluded from the Directory of Convalescent Homes  A/KE/724/54  1953-1959
No further details   Homewood Convalescent Home, Woburn Sands, near Bletchley: formerly Bedford County Hospital Home; from 1948 Bedford Group HMC  A/KE/724/55  1947-1966
Expand   The House Beautiful, Bournemouth; National Sunday School Union (later the National Christian Education Council): closed 1969  A/KE/724/56/1  1954-1969
No further details   Jewish Friendly Societies Home, Lodene Greys, Cookham, Berks; closed 1950  A/KE/724/57  1947-1951
No further details   John Howard Convalescent Home, Brighton; independent  A/KE/724/58  1955-1960
Expand   John Howard Convalescent Home  A/KE/724/59/1  1961-1968
Expand   Kingsleigh Convalescent Home, Seaford; Furnishing Trades' Benevolent Association; closed 1965  A/KE/724/60/1  1950-1966
No further details   Langdon Court Convalescent Home, Wembury, nr Plymouth; Plymouth Special HMC; closed c.1958  A/KE/724/61  1949-1958
No further details   Langwith Lodge, Nether Langwith, nr Mansfield, Notts; Mansfield HMC  A/KE/724/62  1957-1959
Expand   Lanthorne Convalescent Home for Children, Broadstairs; formerly Metropolitan Convalescent Institution; from 1948 Isle of Thanet HMC  A/KE/724/63/1  1947-1969
No further details   Leicester and County Convalescent Homes Society; correspondence concerning contributory schemes for convalescence and parental visiting of children in convalescent homes, includes report on visit to Roecliffe Manor Home, Leicester  A/KE/724/64  1952
No further details   Lennox House, Southsea, Hants; Kensington Holidays Ltd; closed  A/KE/724/65  1954-1960
Expand   Little Folks Home, Bexhill-on-Sea; Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, later Hackney and Queen Elizabeth Group HMC  A/KE/724/66/1  1947-1965
No further details   Littlestone-on-Sea Convalescent Home, Littlestone-on-Sea, Kent; correspondence concerning future of home which had been closed since it was requisitioned in 1940  A/KE/724/67  1951-1953
No further details   Lulworth Court, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex; National Association for the Paralysed; correspondence and papers concerning purchase and conversion of house as a convalescent home for the severely disabled  A/KE/724/68  1950-1959
Expand   Maitland House, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex; Maitland Trust  A/KE/724/69/1  1957-1968
Expand   Maitland House; sold by Maitland Trust c.1972  A/KE/724/70/1  1968-1972
No further details   Marie Celeste Annexe, Fairfield Annexe, Reigate; London Hospital  A/KE/724/71  1947-1957
No further details   Mary Macarthur Holiday Home for Working Women, Stansted, Essex; independent; includes annual reports for 1945/6, 1951/2 and 1954/5  A/KE/724/72  1946-1955
Expand   Metropolitan Convalescent Home (formerly Metropolitan Convalescent Institution), Walton-on-Thames, Surrey; from 1948 Woking and Chertsey Group HMC  A/KE/724/73  1946-1958
No further details   Oak Bank Open Air School, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent; independent special school for delicate children; closed 1961  A/KE/724/74  1954-1961
No further details   The Old Vicarage, Bognor Regis; National Association for Mental Health  A/KE/724/75  1950-1951
No further details   Parkwood Convalescent Home, Swanley, Kent; Westminster Hospital  A/KE/724/76  1947-1952
Expand   Pawling Home-Hospital for Children, Hadley Highstone, Barnet, Herts; independent special school for delicate children; closed 1961  A/KE/724/77  1954-1961
No further details   Princess Louise Convalescent Home, Littlehampton; St Mary's Hospital, Paddington  A/KE/724/78  1963
No further details   Puckle Hill House, Horticultural Training College for the Cerebral Palsied; Shorne, near Gravesend, Kent; independent  A/KE/724/79  1949-1952
No further details   Reckitt Convalescent Home, Clacton-on-Sea; Royal Northern Convalescent Home; from 1948 Colchester Group HMC  A/KE/724/80  1947-1954
Expand   Residential Open Air School of Recovery for Boys, Banstead, Surrey; independent special school for delicate children; closed 1961  A/KE/724/81  1955-1961
Expand   Rosemary Home, Herne Bay; Wimbledon Children's Home Association; converted to Youth Hostel 1961  A/KE/724/82  1955-1961
No further details   Royal National Orthapaedic Hospital (Children's Convalescent Branch), Stanmore, Middlesex  A/KE/724/83  1947-1951
Expand   St Barnabas-in-Soho, 1 Greek Street, Soho; papers concerning proposal to use House of St Barnabas to accommodate patients of Middlesex Hospital living out of London and having to attend hospital daily  A/KE/724/84  1954
No further details   St Bernard's Convalescent Home for Gentlewomen, Hove; independent  A/KE/724/85  1947-1952
No further details   St Bernard's Convalescent Home for Gentlewomen 'File I'  A/KE/724/86  1955-1962
Expand   St Bernard's Convalescent Home for Gentlewomen 'File II'  A/KE/724/87/1  1963
Expand   St Helen's Children's Home (formerly St Helen's Toddlers Convalescent Home) Letchworth, Herts; independent; associated with West Ham; closed 1967  A/KE/724/88/1  1955-1967
No further details   St Jeanne Antide's Convent, 'Oakdown', West Burwash, Sussex  A/KE/724/89  1955-1956
No further details   St John's Convalescent Home, Weston Favell, nr Northampton; independent  A/KE/724/90  1957
Expand   St John's Open Air School for Boys, Woodford Bridge, Essex; Sisters of Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; closed 1970  A/KE/724/91/1  1950-1971
No further details   St Joseph's Convalescent Home, Bournemouth; Sisters of Mercy  A/KE/724/92  1946-1953
No further details   St Luke's Home, Oxford; independent  A/KE/724/93  1956
No further details   St Michael's Home, Axbridge, Somerset; Community of St Peter's, Woking  A/KE/724/94  1948-1952
No further details   St Michael's Home, Southbourne, Hants; Invalid Children's Aid Association; closed 1958  A/KE/724/95  1954-1959
No further details   St Peter's Home, Tankerton, nr Whitstable, Kent; holiday home for St Peter, London Docks  A/KE/724/96  1948
Expand   Schiff House of Recovery, Cobham, Surrey; Epsom Group HMC  A/KE/724/97/1  1954-1965
No further details   Shoreditch Holiday and Rest Home, Copthorne; Shoreditch Borough Council; closed 1962  A/KE/724/98  1955-1963
Expand   Societies and Associations; correspondence with and papers  A/KE/724/99  1954-1958
No further details   Spelthorne St Mary, Thorpe, nr Egham, Surrey; Community of St Mary the Virgin, Wantage; independent home for women drug and alcohol addicts and nerve cases  A/KE/724/100  1955-1961
Expand   Sun Hill Court Convalescent Home (formerly South Coast Convalescent Home for Boys) Worthing; from 1948 Worthing Group HMC  A/KE/724/101/1  1948-1961
No further details   Sunshine Convalescent Home, Shoeburyness, Essex; Southend-on-Sea HMC  A/KE/724/102  1953-1956
No further details   Sunshine House, Alverstoke; National Children's Home and Orphanage  A/KE/724/103  1950-1951
No further details   Surrey Convalescent Home for Men, Seaford, Sussex; independent; closed 1965  A/KE/724/104  1955-1966
No further details   Temple House Children's Convalescent Home, Theobalds Park, Waltham Cross, Herts; private home  A/KE/724/105  1952-1957
Expand   The Thatched Cottage, Godden Green, Sevenoaks, Kent; Time and Talents Settlement Holiday and Rest Home for Families and Youth Clubs from Bermondsey and other parts of London  A/KE/724/106/1  1954-1955
Expand   Thirlestane Convalescent Home, Hindhead; Civil Service Benevolent Fund; closed 1958  A/KE/724/107  1952-1958
Expand   Thomas Banting's Memorial Seaside Convalescent Home for Ladies; Worthing; independent  A/KE/724/108/1  1946-1963
No further details   Thomas Lye Convalescent Home, Brighton; Luton and Dunstable Hospital; from 1948 Brighton and Lewes HMC  A/KE/724/109  1947-1954
No further details   Tidwell House, (formerly Lloyd Kimpton Convalescent Home for Children); Budleigh Salterton, Devon; independent, closed c.1957  A/KE/724/110  1950-1958
No further details   Uxbridge County Hospital; Uxbridge Group HMC  A/KE/724/111  1955
Expand   Victoria Home for Invalid Children, Margate; independent; from 1948 Isle of Thanet HMC; closed 1963  A/KE/724/112  1933-1963
Expand   Victoria and Zachery Merton Home; Broadstairs; Victoria Hospital for Children; from 1948 St George's Hospital Group  A/KE/724/113  1947-1950
No further details   Wandsworth Peace Memorial Home, Whitstable; independent Children's seaside holiday home  A/KE/724/114  1955-1963
No further details   White Lodge, Richmond Park; proposal to purchase lease of the White Lodge for use as a recovery unit for the Central Middlesex Hospital Group  A/KE/724/115  1954
Expand   Winifred House Convalescent Hospital for Children, Arkley, Barnet; Invalid Children's Aid Association; from 1948 Barnet Group HMC  A/KE/724/116/1  1947-1969
Expand   Wordsworth Home of Rest, Swanage, Dorset; independent  A/KE/724/117/1  1950-1960
Expand   Wyndham House, Aldeburgh (for delicate children); Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence; closed 1958  A/KE/724/118  1948-1958
No further details   Yarrow Home of Westminster Hospital for Convalescent Children (formerly Alfred Yarrow Home and Hospital for Children); Westminster Hospital  A/KE/724/119  1947-1950
No further details   Zachery Merton Trust; correspondence and papers relating to use of trust fund given to Royal Northern Hospital in 1938 for a convalescent home, but by 1956 insufficient for this purpose  A/KE/724/120  1956-1957

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