Children's Homes and Institutions in Dorset, England
Abbreviations:
AB=Northern Ireland Area Board; AS=Approved School; BC=Borough Council; BI=Borstal;
CC=County Council; CHE=Community Home; CS=Certified School; DB=Barnardo's;
DC=Detention Centre; IS=Industrial School; LA=Ladies' Association; LC=London Borough Council;
LD=List D; MB=Mothers/Babies; MH=Magdalen Home; NCH=National Children's Home;
PHm=Probation Home; PHs=Probation Hostel; PL=Poor Law Home; Rfy=Reformatory School;
SA=Salvation Army; WS=Waifs & Strays / Children's Society.
Links marked * are to pages on www.workhouses.org.uk.
- Dorset Boys' Industrial School, Milborne St Andrew, Blandford (IS/CC)
- Dorset Reformatory for Boys, Milborne St Andrew, Blandford (Rfy)
- Bournemouth Council Riversleigh Nursery, 41 Branksome Wood, Bournemouth (BC)
- Bournemouth Council Home, 5 Lowther Road, Bournemouth (BC)
- Bournemouth Council Home, Mayfield House, 50 Chatsworth Road, Bournemouth (BC)
- Bournemouth Council Home, Milton House, 53 Wellington Road, Bournemouth (BC)
- Bournemouth Council Working and Older Boys' Hostel, Poole Lane, Bournemouth (BC)
- Bournemouth Council Children's Reception Centre, Poole Lane, Kinson, Bournemouth (BC)
- Bournemouth Council Girls' Hostel, Poole Lane, Kinson, Bournemouth (BC)
- Bournemouth Council Home, Suffolk House, 12 Suffolk Road, Bournemouth (BC)
- St Thomas' Lodge, 12 Charminster Road, Bournemouth (MB)
- St Crispin's Home, 12 St Clement's Road, Springbourne, Bournemouth
- Free Church Rescue and Training Home, 189 Richmond Park Road, Bournemouth (MH/MB)
- St Dorothea's Home for Girls, 20 Stoke Wood Road, Bournemouth (WS)
- Free Church Maternity and Training Home, 3 and 11 St Alban's Avenue, Lower Charminster Road, Bournemouth (MH/MB)
- Free Church Rescue and Training Home, 3 St Alban's Avenue, Lower Charminster Road, Bournemouth (MH/MB)
- Preventive Home and Free Registry Office, 4 Alson Terrace, Trigonwell Road, Bournemouth (LA)
- Talbot Manor Home for Boys, 57 Talbot Avenue, Bournemouth (WS)
- St Thomas' Lodge, 6 Charminster Road, Bournemouth (MH)
- Victoria Home, Burnaby Road, Bournemouth
- Gordon Boys' Messenger Corps Branch Home, Khartoum House, 1 Hawkwood Road, Boscombe, Bournemouth
- St Thomas' Refuge, King's Road, Bournemouth (MH)
- Gordon Boys' Messenger Corps, Shaftesbury Lodge, 20 Poole Road, Bournemouth
- Orphanage and Industrial Home of the Sisters of Bethany, St Clement's Road, Springbourne, Bournemouth (CS)
- Victoria Home, Lindsay Road, Branksome
- Dorset Council Battlecombe Residential Nursery, Bridport (CC)
- Christchurch Union / Bournemouth Council Cottage Homes, Fairmile Road, Christchurch* (PL/BC)
- Convalescent Children's Home, Highcliffe Castle, Christchurch
- Dorset Council Girls' Home (later Reception Centre), 12 Gloucester Road, Dorchester (CC)
- Dorset Council Home for Boys, 14 Gloucester Road, Dorchester (CC)
- Dorset Council Home, 16 Gloucester Road, Dorchester (CC)
- Dorset Council Hostel for Girls, 7 Cornwall Road, Dorchester (CC)
- Dorset Council Maumbury House, 89 South Court Avenue, Dorchester (CC)
- Salisbury Diocesan Shelter, 37 Glyde Path Road, Dorchester (MH)
- The Little Commonwealth, Evershot, Dorchester (IS)
- Thorngrove, Common Mead Lane, Gillingham (DB)
- Milton Lodge Home for Babies, Milton on Stour, Gillingham (WS)
- St Joseph's Cottage Home, Hinton Martell
- Caldecott Community School, Hyde House, Hyde Heath (AS)
- St Michael's Home for Boys, Lyme Regis (WS)
- Dorset Council Home, Ivers, Marnhull (CC)
- Dorset Council Home, Whitecombe, 3 Park Road, Parkstone (CC)
- St Faith's Home, 1 Mount Road, Parkstone (CS/WS)
- 11 St Osmund's Road, Parkstone (DB)
- Dane Court, 12 St Peter Road, Parkstone (DB)
- St Monica's Maternity Home, 17 (later 19)St Peter's Road, Parkstone (MB)
- St Faith's Home, 3 Park Road, Parkstone
- Russell-Cotes Sea Training School, Constitution Hill, Parkstone (DB)
- Russell-Cotes Shaftesbury Convalescent Home, Constitution Hill, Parkstone
- Hants and Dorset Babies' Home, Fairholme, 14 Commercial Road, Parkstone
- Poole and Parkstone Refuge, Oak Tree Lodge, Pottery Road, Parkstone (MH)
- Dorset Council Whitecombe, 3 Park Road, Poole (CC)
- Forest Holme Home ford Destitute Children, 5 Seldown Road / Mount Pleasant Road, Poole
- Poole Union / Dorset Council Scattered Home, Corgrigg, 169 Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, Poole* (PL/CC)
- Dorset Council Home for Girls, Cullisse, 9 Parkstone Road, Poole (CC)
- Poole Union / Dorset Council Scattered Home / Home for Girls, Woodlands, 169 Lower Blandford Road, Broadstone, Poole* (PL/CC)
- Dorset Home Industrial School for Girls: Auxiliary Home, 30 West Street, Poole (IS)
- Dorset Home Industrial School for Girls, 32 West Street, Poole (IS)
- Portland Borstal, The Grove, Easton, Portland (BI)
- St Swithin's Laundry Home, Newland, Sherborne
- St Katharine's Home for Girls, 32 Church Road, Southbourne-on-Sea (WS)
- St Katharine's Home for Girls, Crescent Road (now Southbourne Overcliff Drive), Southbourne-on-Sea (CS/WS)
- Dorset Council Ivers, Marnhull, Sturminster Newton (CC)
- Dorset Council Corvesgate, Ulwell Road, Swanage (CC)
- Dorset Council Turnstone, Ulwell Road, Swanage (CC)
- Faithful Virgin Convent and Orphanage, East Lulworth, Wareham
- The Old Barn Home, Main Road, West Lulworth, Wareham (WS)
- Dorset Council Residential Nursery, Cacique, 307 Chickerell Road, Weymouth (CC)
- Dorset Council Brandon Hostel for Working Boys, Holland Road, Weymouth (CC)
- Dorset Council Home, Sandesfort House, Buxton Road, Weymouth (CC)
- Dorset Council Home, South Winds, Cranford Avenue, Weymouth (CC)
- Dorset Council Home, Stormount, Buxton Road, Wyke Regis, Weymouth (CC)
- Wordsworth GFS Home of Rest, 1 Grosvenor Place, Weymouth
- St Gabriel's Home, 18 Dorchester Road, Weymouth (MB)
- St Gabriel's Home, 6 Abbotsbury Road, Weymouth (MB)
- Diocesan Association Home, St Gabriel's, 20 Great George Street, Weymouth (MH)
- Ladies' Association Training Home for Girls, St Gabriel's, 40 East Street, Weymouth (LA/MH/CS)
- The Shelter, Weymouth (LA/MH)
- The Shelter, Weymouth (MH)
- Dorset Council Pippins, Hanham Road, Wimborne (CC)
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