Children's Homes and Institutions in Suffolk, 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.
- St Mary's Children's Home, Grange Road, Beccles
- Wangford Union Home, Ravensmere Road, Beccles* (PL)
- St Mary's Home, Bildeston House, High Street, Bildeston (WS)
- St Gilbert's School for Boys, High Lodge, Brandon (AS)
- Wangford Hall, Brandon (DB)
- Wangford Union Home, Uppoer Olland Street, Bungay* (PL)
- London Council Residential Nursery, Stowlangtoft Hall, BurySt Edmunds (CC)
- West Suffolk Council Home, 105 Northumberland Avenue, BurySt Edmunds (CC)
- BurySt Edmunds Union / West Suffolk Council Home, Alexandra House, Hospital Road, BurySt Edmunds* (PL/CC)
- St Elizabeth's, 8 Sparhawk Street, BurySt Edmunds (MH)
- BurySt Edmunds Shelter, 9 Westgate Street, BurySt Edmunds (MH)
- St Faith's Training Home for Girls, Albert Street, BurySt Edmunds (CS)
- Fornham House, FornhamSt Martin, BurySt Edmunds (DB)
- Great Saxham Hall, Great Saxham, BurySt Edmunds (DB)
- Glebe House, Great Saxham, BurySt Edmunds (DB)
- Farm Home for Boys, Summer Road, Walsham Le Willows, BurySt Edmunds (IS/WS)
- Cottage Home, The Causeway, Walsham-le-Willows, BurySt Edmunds
- St Edmund's Private Maternity Hospital, BurySt Edmunds (MB)
- St John's Home, Lion Road, Palgrave, Diss (WS)
- Thornham Memorial Home for Boys, Mellis Road, Gislingham, Eye (WS)
- Suffolk Kerrison Reformatory School for Boys, Stoke Road, Thorndon, Eye (Rfy/AS)
- Hartismere & Hoxne Union Home, Wilton House (later Willow House), 50 Castle Street, Eye* (PL)
- Convalescent Home, 5-6 Chelsea Villas, Cobbold Road, Felixstowe (DB)
- St Mary's Home, 8 Sea Road, Felixstowe (WS)
- St Mary's Home, 9 Wolsey Gardens, Felixstowe (AS/WS)
- Convalescent Home, Harland House, Undercliff Road, Felixstowe (DB)
- Woodbridge Union / Suffolk Council Home, The Holme, The Green, Grundisburgh* (PL/CC)
- Blything Union / Suffolk Council Cottage Homes, Hope House, Halesworth* (PL/CC)
- Royal Hospital School, Holbrook
- Ipswich Council Home, 134 Britannia Road, Ipswich (BC)
- Ipswich Council Home, 19 Shenstone Drive, Ipswich (BC)
- Ipswich Council Home, 52 Belstead Road, Ipswich (BC)
- Ipswich Council Home, 76 Montgomery Road, Ipswich (BC)
- Ipswich Union School, St John's Children's Home, Bloomfield Street / Freehold Road, Ipswich* (PL/BC)
- East Suffolk Council Home, 23 Tuddenham Road, Ipswich (CC)
- East Suffolk Council Home, 38 Anglesea Road, Ipswich (CC)
- East Suffolk Council Home, 68 Surbiton Road, Ipswich (CC)
- East Suffolk Council Home, 9 Oban Street, Ipswich (CC)
- East Suffolk Council Home, Beacon Hill, Stone Lodge Lane West, Ipswich (CC)
- East Suffolk Council Home, Oak Cottage, 54 Crabbe Street, Ipswich (CC)
- East Suffolk Council Evelyn Fison Lodge, Sprites Lane, Ipswich (CC)
- East Suffolk Council Home, Tonquedec, Stone Lodge Lane West, Ipswich (CC)
- Ipswich Temporary Shelter, 1 Clarkson Street, Ipswich (MH)
- St Helen's Orphanage and Training Home for Girls, 113 St Helen's Street, Ipswich
- Hope Orphanage / East Suffolk Girls' Home, 14 Church Street, Ipswich
- House of Hope / Hope House Orphanage, 158 Foxhall Road, Ipswich (CS)
- Home for Friendless Girls, 2 Friar's Road, Ipswich (CS)
- Ipswich Working Boys' Home, 20 Church Street, Ipswich
- Handford Home for Feeble-minded Girls, 253-255 Ranelagh Road, Ipswich (CS)
- Robert Milne House, 333 Felixstowe Road, Ipswich (DB)
- St Saviour's Home, 34 Foundation Street, Ipswich (LA/MH)
- Home for Friendless Girls, 434 Woodbridge Road, Ipswich (CS/WS)
- St Matthew's Industrial Home for Girls, 8 Blackhorse Lane, Ipswich (Rfy)
- Ipswich Temporary Shelter, 8 Soane Street, Ipswich (MH)
- Oak Lodge, 98 Christchurch Street, Ipswich (MH)
- St Mary's Orphanage, Albion Hill, Woodbridge Road, Ipswich (CS)
- Maryland Home, Burstall Lane, Sproughton, Ipswich (WS)
- Home for Girls, Wolsey Street, Ipswich
- Lodge of the Good Shepherd, Ipswich (MH)
- Home of the Holy Childhood, Kettlebaston
- Mutford & Lothingland Union / East Suffolk Council Home, Primrose Villa, 52 Acton Road, Kirkley* (PL/CC)
- Asylum of St Anne's Society, Lavenham
- Preventive Training Home for Girls, 1 Redbridge Hill, Long Melford (CS)
- Montgomery House, Church Walk, Long Melford (DB)
- Feltham and Mayford Industrial Schools: Auxiliary Home, Battery Green, Lowestoft (IS/CC)
- East Suffolk Council Boys' Homes, Ashley Downs, Somerton Avenue, Lowestoft (CC)
- East Suffolk Council Home, Chesterfield House, Pakefield Road, Lowestoft (CC)
- Church Home for Girls / Connaught House, 123 High Street, Lowestoft (CS/WS)
- Wrentham Cottage Training Home, Alexandra Road, Lowestoft (CS)
- St Bridget's, North Parade, Lowestoft (MB)
- St Nicholas Home / Nursery, St Margaret's Road, Lowestoft (WS)
- Lowestoft Association for Moral Welfare Home, The Elms, Gordon Road, Lowestoft (MH)
- St John's Home for Girls, Beck House,St John's Street, Beck Row, Mildenhall (CS/WS)
- Bosmere & Claydon Union / Suffolk Council Home, Hurstlea, 131 High Street, Needham Market* (PL/CC)
- Newmarket Mission House, 2 Stamford Street, Newmarket (MH)
- Warren Towers, Moulton Road, Newmarket (DB)
- Newmarket Mission House, Wellington Street, Newmarket (MH)
- Stanley House, Newmarket (DB)
- East Suffolk Council Home, St Osyth, Bridge Road, Oulton Broad (CC)
- East Suffolk Council Home, Southwood Cottage, Southwold (CC)
- Stow Union / Suffolk Council Home, Hill House (later Eastward Ho), Violet Hill Road, Stowmarket* (PL/CC)
- East Suffolk Council Sunnyside Nursery, Stowmarket (CC)
- Stow Union Home, 18 Bury Street, Stowmarket* (PL)
- Home for Motherless Boys and Girls (Rev. EG Falconer's Home), Old Vicarage, Gipping, Old Newton, Stowmarket
- Home for Motherless Girls, Verandah Cottage, Old Newton, Stowmarket
- Sudbury Union / West Suffolk Council Cottage Homes, Crofton House, Croft Road, Sudbury* (PL/CC)
- West Suffolk Council Home, The Chestnuts, Great Cornard, Sudbury (CC)
- St Joseph's Home, The Croft, Sudbury
- Mutford & Lothingland Union Home, Bridge Road, West Lowestoft* (PL)
- St Gilbert's School for Boys, Butley, Woodbridge (AS)
- Hollesley Bay, Hollesley, Woodbridge, Suffolk (BI)
- Hartismere & Hoxne Union School, Union Lane, Wortham* (PL)
- Wrentham Cottage Training Home, Wrentham (CS)
- Sibton Orphans' Home, High Street, Yoxford
- Blything Union Cottage Homes, Hope House, High Street, Yoxford* (PL)
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