Catalogue description Records of the Liverpool House of Help
This record is held by Liverpool Record Office
Reference: | 362 HOU |
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Title: | Records of the Liverpool House of Help |
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1. General Committee Minute Books. 3 vols., 1901 - 1957 2. Executive Committee Minute Books, 6 vols., 1934 - 1961 3. Annual Reports, 76 pamphlets, 1892 - 1957; 1959 - 1967 |
Date: | 1892 - 1967 |
Held by: | Liverpool Record Office, not available at The National Archives |
Language: | English |
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Physical description: | 9 vols., 76 pamphlets |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
The records listed below were donated to this library in November 1970 by I.W. Spiers |
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Administrative / biographical background: |
The Liverpool Rescue Society and House of Help was opened in July 1890, at 68 Falkner Street with the aim of providing temporary shelter for women and girls - " ... a Temporary shelter ... to those who have fallen into sin, and to those hovering on the brink of ruin" (see 362 HOU 1/1 below, printed sheet inserted at front of volume). The Society was a voluntary organisation, supported by "... a large number of influential ladies and gentlemen". From 1909 the words "Rescue Society" were omitted and from 1942 the organisation was known as the Liverpool House of Help & Hostel for Women & Girls. In 1895 the Society moved to premises at 162 Grove Street, but in 1963 it returned to Falkner Street, occupying no. 44. The Liverpool House of Help was closed in 1969. |
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