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T.A. Field Girls Home – Carlingford

This is a photo of two girls standing in the doorway of the T.A. Field Cottage at the Church of England Home for Girls, Carlingford. It shows two older girlsin white dresses standing in the front doorway of a brick building. There is a small paved porch in front of them. On one of the…

Molly Trigg Girls Home – Carlingford

This is a photo of the Molly Trigg Cottage at the Church of England Girls’ Home, Carlingford. It shows two girls walking away from the camera along a path in front of a brick single-storey building with large windows. There are rose-beds in front of the building. The T.A. Field cottage is just visible behind…

Church of England Home for Children

This is a photo of the boys and staff of the Church of England Boys’ Home, Carlingford, lined up in front of the Buckland Memorial Home. It shows a large group of boys lined up in front of a large two-storey brick building with archways along the centre ground-floor section. This image was published in The…

Carlingford Girls’ Home

This is a photo showing young girls standing in front of the gates of the Church of England Girls’ Home at Carlingford, with the Mary McGarvey Home visible behind them. It shows 9 girls in white dresses standing in front of brick and iron gates in front of a large two-storey brick building. This image…

Trigg Home

This is an image of the Trigg Home at the Church of England Boys’ Home, Carlingford. It shows a large single-storey brick cottage with a small central front verandah framed with white columns. The cottage is surrounded by lawn, with a few trees in the background and foreground. This photo is undated, the date included…

Stolen Innocence: Memoirs of a Child Migrant – Nigel Owen interview

This is a YouTube video of a radio interview in 2019 on Talk Radio Europe with former child migrant Nigel Owen about his time at the Northcote Farm School in Bacchus Marsh.

Carlingford Boys’ Home Cottages

This is an image of three of the buildings at the Church of England Boys’ Home, Carlingford. It shows the Spurway Cottage (right hand side), Broad Cottage (centre), and part of the Buckland Memorial Home (left hand side). The two cottages are similar in shape and style – both are large single-storey cottages with a…

Buckland Memorial Home Carlingford

This is a photo of the Buckland Memorial Home at the Carlingford Church of England Boys’ Home. It shows a large two-storey brick building with lots of windows and decorative archways running along a covered walkway along the ground floor, some of which have white rendered highlights. Above the central front entrance is lettering that…

Vickery Home

This is an image of the Vickery Home, or Vickery Cottage, at the Church of England Boys’ Home, Carlingford. It shows a white rendered single-storey cottage with a tile roof and two chimneys surrounded by lawn and a few small shrubs. The cottage has a small central front verandah which is framed by thin white…

Register of admissions and discharges, Grosvenor Hospital

The Register of Admissions and Discharges for Grosvenor Hospital contains information about patients at the Hospital, most of whom were under 10 years old when they were at the Hospital. The register contains the following information: date of admission and of previous admission (if any); patient number; name; sex; age; marital status; occupation; place of…