Children's Homes and Institutions in London (W/WC Postal Areas), 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.
- Kensington and Chelsea Council Home, 7 Creswick Road, Acton W3 (LC)
- Home for Girls, Acton W3
- Home of Hope, Beaumont Road, Acton Green W4
- Wandsworth Council Home, 32 York Road, Battersea SW11 (LC)
- St Matthew's Home for Female Orphans, 10 Victoria Grove, Bayswater W2
- Loreto House, 17 Pembridge Villas, Bayswater W11 (MB)
- Bayswater Orphan Asylum, 26 Kensington Park Road, Bayswater W11
- St Matthew's Home for Female Orphans, 35-37 (later 49) Ossington Street, Bayswater W2
- Homes for Working Girls in London, Victoria House, 47 Prince's Square, Bayswater W2
- St Teresa's Hostel, 111 Gower Street, Bloomsbury WC1
- Rossie House, 16 Queen's Square, Bloomsbury WC1 (IS)
- St Thomas More Hostel, 18A Compton Street, Bloomsbury WC1
- National Refuges Working Boys' Home, 19 Broad Street, Bloomsbury WC1
- Industrial Home for Girls, 22 New Ormond Street, Bloomsbury WC1 (CS)
- St Margaret's Home Industrial School for Catholic Girls, 31 Queen Square, Bloomsbury WC1 (IS)
- St Vincent de Paul Shoeblack Brigade, 31 Queen Square, Bloomsbury WC1
- Home for Deserted Mothers and their Infants, 35 Great Coram Street, Russell Square, Bloomsbury WC1 (MH/MB)
- Rossie House, 35 Lamb's Conduit Street, Bloomsbury WC1
- Crusade of Rescue Receiving Home, 48 Compton Street, Bloomsbury WC1
- St Giles &St George Union Receiving Home, 52 Broad Street (now High Holborn), Bloomsbury WC1* (PL)
- St Margaret's Home Industrial School for Catholic Girls, 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury WC1 (IS)
- Newsboys' / Working Boys' Home, 80 Gray's Inn Road, Bloomsbury WC1
- Foundling Hospital, Guildford Street, Bloomsbury WC1
- Hounslow Council Home, 128 Barrowgate Road, Chiswick W4 (LC)
- Middlesex Council Home, 128 Barrowgate Road, Chiswick W4 (CC)
- Home for Motherless Children, 13 Hogarth Place, Chiswick W4
- Home for Motherless Children, 3 Heathfield Gardens, Chiswick W4
- St Maria Goretti's Hostel, 4 Chsiwick Lane, Chiswick W4
- St Agnes' Home, 53 Barrowgate Road, Chiswick W4 (MB)
- Nazareth House, Chiswick Square, Chiswick W4
- Devon Nook Home for Unmarried Mothers, Duke's Avenue, Chiswick W4 (MB)
- MABYS Central Training Home, Grosvenor House, Chiswick Lane, Chiswick W4 (CS)
- Home for Motherless Children, The Roystons, 1 Spencer Road, Grove Park, Chiswick W4
- Home for Motherless Children, Villa Amalinda, Burlington Lane, Chiswick W4
- Chiswick Receiving Home, Chiswick W4 (WS)
- London School Board / LCC Day Industrial School, Goldsmith (now Stukeley) Street, Drury Lane, Covent Garden WC2 (IS/CC)
- Sister Mabel Hostel, 1-5 Siddons Buildings, Drury Lane, Covent Garden WC2 (MH)
- St Giles' Christian Mission / Refuge, 25 Drury Lane, Covent Garden WC2 (MH)
- St Giles' Christian Mission / Refuge, 26 Great Earl Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden WC2 (MH)
- St Giles' Rescue Home, 46 Neal Street, Covent Garden WC2 (MH)
- Emerson Bainbridge Hostel, Kingsway, Covent Garden WC2
- Gertrude Owen House, Siddons Buildings, Drury Lane, Covent Garden WC2
- Moore Street Home for Crippled and Orphan Boys, 17 Queen Street, Edgware Road W2
- Church Army Home for the Houseless Poor, 21 Nutford Place, Edgware Road W2
- Church Army Laundry Home, 27 Nutford Place, Edgware Road W2
- Church Army Home, 27 Nutford Place, Edgware Road W2 (MH)
- Church Army Home, 28 Nutford Place, Edgware Road W2 (MH)
- Church Army Classifying Home, 29 Nutford Place, Edgware Road W2 (MH)
- Dudley Stuart Home, 77 Market Street, Edgware Road W2 (CS)
- Hammersmith and Fulham Council Remand Home for Boys, Stamford House, 206 Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith W12 (LC)
- Hammersmith Union / LCC Receiving Home, 206A Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith W12* (PL/CC)
- London Council Stamford House Remand Home for Boys, 206A Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith W12 (CC)
- Girls' Hostel, 22 Upper Mall, Hammersmith W6
- The Refuge or House of Probation, 23 Agate Road, Hammersmith W6 (MH)
- Hammersmith and Chiswick Ruri-decenal Refuge, 36 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith W6 (MH)
- St Mary's Home, 41 Brook Green Road, Hammersmith W6
- MABYS Lodging Home, 46 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith W6
- St Vincent's Home for Destitute Boys, 49 Queen (now Queen Caroline) Street, Hammersmith W6
- St Joseph's Orphanage for Roman Catholic Pauper Boys, 50 Brook Green, Hammersmith W6 (CS)
- St Joseph's School for Roman Catholic Girls, 50 Brook Green, Hammersmith W6 (CS)
- Hammersmith Ruri-decenal Shelter, 59 Eyot Gardens, Hammersmith W6 (MH)
- St Michael's Orphanage, 62 Upper Mall, Hammersmith W6
- Home for Feeble-minded Girls, Alexander House, 48 Glenthorne Road, Hammersmith W6 (CS)
- Reformatory for Roman Catholic Boys, Blyth (or Blythe) House, Blyth Lane, Brook Green, Hammersmith W6 (Rfy)
- St Stephen's Industrial School for Roman Catholic Boys, Blyth (or Blythe) House, Blyth Lane, Brook Green, Hammersmith W6 (IS)
- Eagle House Reformatory for Roman Catholic Girls, Brook Green, Hammersmith W6 (Rfy)
- St Vincent's Home for Destitute Boys, Brook Green Lane, Hammersmith W6
- Asylum of the Good Shepherd, Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith W6 (MH)
- Amy Waterlow Memorial Home of Rest for Servants of Good Character and Industrial Home for Girls, Grafton House, Beavor Lane, Hammersmith W6
- Nazareth House, King Street East (now Hammersmith Road), Hammersmith W6
- Royal Philanthropic Home, Manor Hall, 53 Great Church Lane, Hammersmith W6
- Kensington & Chelsea District School, Marlesford Lodge, 241/253 King Street, Hammersmith W6* (PL)
- Training Ship 'Stork', River Thames, Hammersmith W6
- Ladies' Charity School, 22 Queen Square, Holborn WC1
- Ladies' Charity School, 30 John Street, Bedford Row, Holborn WC1
- Katherine Price Hughes Hostel, 8 Doughty Street, Holborn WC1 (PHs)
- The Nassau Senior Training School, 35 St James' Square, Holland Park W8 (CS)
- Kensington and Chelsea Council Home, 49 Bassett Road, Kensington W10 (LC)
- Kensington Refuge, 2 Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington W8 (MH)
- Kensington Refuge, 2 Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington W8 (MH/MB)
- Kensington Training School for Girls, 3 Church Street, Kensington W8 (WS)
- The Refuge, 3 Durham Place, Campden Hill Road, Kensington W8 (MH)
- St Vincent's, 36 Church Street, Kensington W8
- Female Mission to the Fallen Dressmaking Home, 63 Milson (or Milsom) Road, Kensington W14 (MH)
- Doorstep / Houseboy Brigade Home, 7 Church Street, Kensington W8
- GFS Lodge, 7 Upper Phillimore Place, Kensington W8
- National Children's Adoption Association Home, Tower Cressy, Campden Hill, Kensington W8
- National Industrial Home for Crippled Boys, Woolsthorpe House, Wright's Lane, Kensington W8 (CS)
- Orphanage of Mercy, 27-29 Kilburn Park Road, Kilburn W9
- Orphanage of Mercy, 57 Randolph Gardens, Kilburn W9
- Kensington and Chelsea Council Reception Centre, 36 Oxford Gardens, Ladbroke Grove W10 (LC)
- The Refuge, 25 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields WC2
- The Refuge, 8 Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields WC2
- Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Orphan Society, 9 Howley Place, Maida Hill W9
- Queen Victoria Orphanage, 111 Shirland Road, Maida Vale W9
- Training Refuge for Destitute Girls, 14 Warrington Terrace, Maida Vale W9 (IS)
- Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Orphan Society, 2 Ashworth Road, Maida Vale W9
- Paddington andSt Marylebone Ladies' Association Home, 4 Lanark Villas, Clifton Road, Maida Vale W9 (LA/MH)
- MABYS Auxiliary Home for Girls, 40 Portsdown Road (now Randolph Avenue), Maida Vale W9 (IS)
- Hanbury House, 63 Warwick Avenue, Maida Vale W9
- Auxiliary Home for Girls, Campbell House, 90 Sutherland Avenue, Maida Vale W9 (IS)
- Shaftesbury Institute Training Home, Clarendon House, 20 Clarendon Gardens, Maida Vale W9
- St Agnes' Home, Cumberland House, Clifton Gardens, Maida Vale W9
- Spanish and Portuguese Jews' Orphan Society, Lauderdale Road, Maida Vale W9
- St Vincent's Day School, 14 Blandford Street, Marylebone W1
- St Vincent's Home for Working Girls, 14 Blandford Street, Marylebone W1
- Cripples' Nursery, 14 Old Quebec Street, Marylebone W1
- Old Quebec Street Receiving Home for Girls, 14 Old Quebec Street (now Upper Montagu Street), Marylebone W1 (CS/WS)
- Church Army Preventive Home, 20 Nutford Place, Marylebone W1
- Rescue Society Home, 205 Great Portland Street, Marylebone W1 (MH)
- Maurice Girls' Home, 22 and 41 Charlotte Street, Portland Place, Marylebone W1 (IS)
- Church Army, Park Home, 30 Homer Street, Crawford Street, Marylebone W1 (MH)
- North-West London Shoeblack Brigade and Ragged School, 33 John Street West (now Crawford Place), Marylebone W1
- Cripples' Nursery, 4 Henriatta Street, Duke Street, Marylebone W1
- Grotto Passage Ragged and Industrial Schools, 55 Paddington Street, Marylebone W1
- Grotto Home for Working Boys, 55 Paddington Street, Marylebone W1 (IS)
- Maurice Girls' Home, 78 Hallam Street, Marylebone W1 (IS)
- St Vincent's Day-nursery and School / Orphanage, 9 Lower Seymour (now Wigmore) Street, Portman Square, Marylebone W1
- St Patrick's Home for Working Boys, 90 Charlotte Street, Marylebone W1 (IS)
- St Vincent's Crèche, Beaumont Street, Marylebone W1
- St Vincent's Nursery and Orphanage for Girls, Bulstrode Street, Marylebone W1
- Homes for Working Girls in London, Hyde House, 9 Bulstrode Street, Marylebone W1
- Homes for Working Girls in London, Lincoln House, 116A Baker Street, Marylebone W1
- St George's Diocesan Shelter and Training Home, 8 Bourdon Street, Berkeley Square, Mayfair W1 (MH)
- Mayfair Union Home, 8 Bourdon Street, Berkeley Square, Mayfair W1 (MH)
- St George's Dioecesan Training Home, 8 Bourdon Street, Berkeley Square, Mayfair W1 (MH/PHm)
- Female Aid Society Mission House, 61 St Charles Square, North Kensington W10 (MH)
- Fotherby House Auxiliary Industrial School, 61 St Charles Square, North Kensington W10 (IS)
- St William's Nursery /St Teresa's Nursery /St Vincent's Home, 73 St Charles Square, North Kensington W10
- Free Registry Office and Training School, 10A Saunders Road, Latimer Road, Notting Dale W10 (LA)
- Children's Free Lodging House, 12 Penzance Place, Notting Hill W11 (DB)
- The Nassau Senior Training School, 122 Cornwall (now Westbourne Park) Road, Notting Hill W11 (CS)
- St Mary's Training Home, 128A Lancaster Road, Notting Hill W11 (LA)
- Church Army Girls' Training Home, 16 Powis Gardens, Notting Hill W11
- St Anne's Home for Ophthalmic Roman Catholic Girls, 311-317 Portobello Road, Notting Hill W10 (IS/MH/CS)
- St Elizabeth's Home, Franciscan Convent, 311-317 Portobello Road, Notting Hill W10 (CS)
- St Anne's Home, 311-317 Portobello Road, Notting Hill W11 (MH)
- St Anne's Home for Working Girls, 317 Portobello Road, Notting Hill W10
- St Anne's Special School, 317A Portobello Road, Notting Hill W10
- North Kensington Home for Mothers and Babies, 65 Lancaster Road, Notting Hill W11 (MB)
- Refuge, 85/86 Portobello Road, Notting Hill W11 (LA/MH)
- Female Mission to the Fallen Refuge, 95 Ledbury Road, Notting Hill W11
- Ladies' Charity School, Powis House, Powis Gardens, Notting Hill W11
- Notting Hill Shoeblack Society, Shaftesbury Hall, Prince's (now Princedale) Road, Notting Hill W11
- Notting Dale Ladies' Association, St Mary's Training Home, 8 Norland Gardens, Notting Hill W11 (LA)
- Jews' Deaf and Dumb Home, 115 Walmer Road, Notting Hill W11 (CS)
- Westminster Council Home, 17 Lapworth Court, Chichester Road, Paddington W2 (LC)
- Westminster Council Home, 34 Atherstone Court, Bourne Terrace, Paddington W2 (LC)
- Westminster Council Home, 34 Dartington House, Senior Street, Paddington W2 (LC)
- Westminster Council Home, 64 Lapworth Court, Chichester Road, Paddington W2 (LC)
- Westminster Council Home, 82 Atherstone Court, Bourne Terrace, Paddington W2 (LC)
- Westminster Council Home, 99 Bourne Terrace, Paddington W2 (LC)
- St Christopher's, 1 Devonshire Terrace, Paddington W2 (MB)
- Home for Girls, 123 Gloucester Terrace, Paddington W2
- Dr Stainer's Home for Deaf and Dumb Children, 13 Paddington Green, Paddington W2 (CS)
- St Mary Magdalene Home, 14 (later 26) Ranelagh (now Lords Hill) Road, Paddington W2 (MH/MB)
- Church Army Refuge, 2 Devonshire Terrace, Paddington W2 (MH)
- MABYS Auxiliary Home for Girls, 24 Paddington Green, Paddington W2 (IS)
- St Mary Magdalene Home, 30 Weymouth Street, Paddington W2 (MH)
- St Agnes Home for Girls, 6 Blomfield Terrace, Harrow Road, Paddington W2
- Female Mission to the Fallen Refuge, 9-11 Westbury Road, Paddington W2
- Children's Emergency Home, Beauchamp Lodge, Warwick Crescent, Paddington W2
- Paddington and Marylebone Ladies' Association, Sandford House, 138 Blomfield Terrace, Harrow Road, Paddington W2 (LA)
- Rescue Home for Girls in Need of Care & Supervision, Winchester House, 20 Manor Place, Paddington W2 (MH)
- West London Mission Home, Winchester House, 5 Eastbourne Terrace, Paddington W2 (MH)
- Royal Naval Endeavour/Asylum, Paddington W2
- Holborn Union / LCC Receiving Home, Lloyd House, 11 Lloyd Street, Pentonville WC1* (PL/CC)
- Home for Defective Children, Lloyd House, 11 Lloyd Street, Pentonville WC1*
- Home for Defective Children, 12 Lloyd Street, Pentonville WC1*
- London Council Stamford House Remand Home for Boys, 23 Cathnor Road, Shepherd's Bush W12 (CC)
- Jewish Rescue Home Hostel, 1 Roseford Terrace, Shepherd's Bush W12 (MH/MB)
- Church Army, Clifton Home, 127 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush W12 (MH)
- Hetley Homes, 131 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush W12
- Alexander Home for Feeble-minded Girls, 170 Coningham Road, Shepherd's Bush W12 (CS)
- St Marylebone Workhouse Girls' Aid Home, 241 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush W12 (MH/MB)
- Hetley Homes, 2-6 Hetley Road, Shepherd's Bush W12
- St Margaret's Hostel, 466 Uxbridge Road, Shepherd's Bush W12 (MH/MB)
- Home of the Good Shepherd, Aldine House, Uxbrdige Road, Shepherd's Bush W12 (MH)
- Jewish Rescue Home, Charcroft House, Roseford Gardens, Shepherd's Bush W12 (MH/MB)
- Blue Lamp Refuge, 10 Great Marlborough Street, Soho W1 (MH)
- St Patrick's Home for Roman Catholic Boys from Industrial Schools / Working Boys, 14 Manette Street, Soho W1 (IS)
- Shaftesbury House, 164 Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho WC2
- Shaftesbury House, 229A Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho WC2
- Countess Dowager of Aberdeen's Home, 28 Foubert's Place, Regent Street, Soho W1 (MH)
- Refuge of Our Lady of Pity, 31 Soho Square, Soho W1 (MH)
- Mayfair Union Blue Lamp Refuge, 38 Great Pulteney Street, Soho W1 (MH)
- St Andrew's House and Club for Working Boys, 71 Dean Street, Soho W1
- Newport Market Refuge / School, 8 Prince's Row Square, Soho WC2
- Rose Street Mission Home, 9 Rose Street, Soho Square, Soho W1
- Shaftesbury Home for Working Boys, Fordham House, 164A Shaftesbury Avenue, Soho WC2
- Girls' Refuge, George (now Dyott) Street / Broad (nowSt Giles' High) Street, Soho WC2
- Newport Market Refuge / School, Market Street, Soho WC2
- House of Charity, 1 Greek Street, Soho Square W1
- Boys' Refuge, 17 Arthur (now Earnshaw) Street, St Giles WC2
- St Margaret's House, 13 Burton Street, St Pancras WC1 (MH/MB)
- Islington and North London Shoeblack Brigade, 146B King's Cross Road, St Pancras WC1
- The Refuge, 15 Heathcote Street, St Pancras WC1 (MH)
- Southampton House Home for Working Boys, 17 (later 19-21) Southampton Street (now Conway Street), Fitzroy Square, St Pancras W1
- Grotto Auxiliary Home, 19-21 Southampton (now Conway) Street, Fitzroy Square, St Pancras W1 (IS)
- London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution / London Have for Women and Girls, 2-4 Liverpool Street (now Birkenhead Street), St Pancras WC1 (MH)
- Caldecott Community, 26 Cartwright Gardens, St Pancras WC1
- St Pancras Shelter, 3 Crescent Place (now Burton Place), Cartwright Gardens, St Pancras WC1 (MH)
- The Refuge, 301 Gray's Inn Road, St Pancras WC1 (MH)
- Open-all-Night Refuge, 37 Manchester Street (now 47 Argyle Street), St Pancras WC1 (MH)
- Refuge of Our Lady of Pity, 4 Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road, St Pancras W1 (MH)
- Homes of Hope, 4 Regent Square, Gray's InnRoad, St Pancras WC1 (MH)
- Jews' Deaf and Dumb Home, 44 Burton Crescent (Cartwright Gardens, St Pancras WC1 (CS)
- Rescue Society Home, 45 Cartwright Gardens, St Pancras WC1 (MH)
- Main Memorial Home for Deserted Mothers and their Infants, 49 Burton Crescent (now Cartwright Gardens), St Pancras WC1 (MH/MB)
- Homes of Hope, 5 Regent Square, Gray's Inn Road, St Pancras WC1 (MH/MB)
- Homes of Hope, 6 Regent Square, Gray's Inn Road, St Pancras WC1 (MH)
- Homes for Working Girls in London, Domgay House, 11 Fitzroy Street, St Pancras W1
- Homes for Working Girls in London, Garfield House, 8 Fitzroy Square, St Pancras W1
- Wandsworth Council Home, 80 Wilna Road, Wandsworth SW18 (LC)
- St Joseph's Orphanage for Girls, Kensington Hall, West Kensington W14 (CS)
- Household Training Home for Roman Catholic Girls of Good Character, 37 Aynhoe Road, West Kensington Park W14 (CS)
- Training Home for Girls, 46 Gratton Road, West Kensington Park W14 (CS)
- Metropolitan Asylums Board / LCC Remand Home, 203-205 Harrow Road, Westbourne Green W2* (CC)
- Lock Hospital, 283 Harrow Road, Westbourne Green W2 (MH)
- Lock Hospital Recovery and Welfare Home, 283 Harrow Road, Westbourne Green W2 (MH)
- St Vincent's Home for Boys, 337-339 Harrow Road, Westbourne Green W2
- Lock Asylum, Harrow Road, Westbourne Green W2 (MH)
- Rescue Home, Harrow Road, Westbourne Green W2 (MH)
- GFS Lodge, 42 Cornwall (now Westbourne Park) Road, Westbourne Park W2
- St John's Hostel and Training School, Great Western Road, Westbourne Park W11
- House of Help, 1 Great Scotland Yard, Westminster SW1 (MH)
- Emerson Bainbridge Hostel, 47 Cleveland Street, Westminster W1
- Newport Market Refuge / Industrial School, 48-49 Long Acre, Westminster WC2
- GFS Lodge, Bourdon Street, Berkeley Square, Westminster W1
- Burlington School, Boyle Street, Westminster WC2
- Parochial Schools, St Clement Danes, Westminster WC2
- Wormwood Scrubs, Du Cane Road, Wormwood Scrubs W12 (BI)
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