Orhanage Gallery

Birmingham Middlemore Homes Emigration Party

A party of boys from Birmingham's Middlemore Homes begin their journey to a new life in Canada. Each carries a large bag stencilled with their name in which their clothes and other possessions were held. Date: 1920

© Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection

Bag, Begin, Birminghams, Boys, Canada, Care, Carehome, Carries, Childrens, Clothes, Each, Held, Home, Homes, Journey, Large, Life, Middlemore, New, Orhanage, Orphans, Party, Possessions, Service, Services, Social, Stencilled, Welfare

Waifs and Strays Society First 1913 Emigration Party to Cana

The Waifs and Strays Society's first emigration party to Canada of the 1913 season. Boys dressed in overcoats and caps stand in front of a railway carriage. Date: 1913

© Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection

1913, Boys, Canada, Caps, Care, Carehome, Carriage, Childrens, Dressed, Emigration, Front, Home, Orhanage, Orphans, Overcoats, Party, Railway, Season, Service, Services, Social, Stand, Strays, Waifs, Welfare

Besford Court College, Worcestershire - Psychological Testin

A robed priest at Besford Court College, Worcestershire, conducts psychological testing on two inmates. The College was established in 1918 as an Industrial School for Roman Catholic mentally defective boys. Date: Date unknown

© Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection

1918, Besford, Care, Carehome, Catholic, Childrens, College, Conducts, Court, Defective, Established, Home, Industrial, Inmates, Mentally, Orhanage, Orphans, Priest, Psychological, Robed, Roman, School, Service, Services, Social, Testing, Welfare, Worcestershire