Jewish Association Home for the Protection of Girls and Women, Aldgate, London
In 1928, the Jewish Association for the Protection of Girls and Women established a Magdalen Home at 45 Great Prescott Street (now Prescot Street), Aldgate, London E1. The Home was intended to receive emergency cases of women and girls in distress, of whom 7 could be accommodated.
The premises had previously been used as an Auxiliary Home for Montefiore House, an Industrial School for Jewish Girls.
The property no longer exists.
Records
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- None identfied at present — any information welcome.
Bibliography
- Bartley, Paula Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914 (2000, Routledge)
- Finnegan, Frances Poverty and Prostitution: A Study of Victorian Prostitutes in York (1979, CUP)
- Hopkins, Jane Ellice, Work Among the Lost (1870, William Macintosh)
- Nokes, Harriet Twenty-Three Years in a House of Mercy (1886, Rivingtons)
- Taylor, William J The Story of the Homes (1907, London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution)
- Thomas, E W Twenty-Five Years' Labour Among the Friendless and Fallen (1897, Shaw)
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