Babies' Home, Lambeth, London
The Babies' Home was operated by the Children's Aid Society at 131 Upper Tulse Hill, Lambeth, London SW2. It provided accommodation for nursing mothers and their babies and was run in conjunction with the Mission of Hope's 'Rokeby' maternity home at Streatham.
Babies' Home, Lambeth, 1930s. © Peter Higginbotham
The Upper Tulse Hill property no longer exists.
Records
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- The records of the Children's Aid Society were inherited by Barnardos. Barnardo's 'Making Connections' and Family History Services — for enquiries relating the records of children formerly in the care of Barnardo's and those of other organisations absorbed by them.
Bibliography
- The Children's Aid Society: its work and its aims. (1938)
Links
- None noted at present.
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