Dr Guthrie's Girls Industrial School, Gilmerton, Edinburgh
Thomas Guthrie's Girls Industrial School opened in 1904 on Gilmerton Road, Gilmerton, Edinburgh. Industrial Schools, often privately run, housed children aged 7-15 placed there by magistrates for a variety of reasons such as vagrancy, begging, disrupting schools, or living with prostitutes
Picture No
10678176
Media ID
47553989
Size
3000px x 1872px
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Credit
Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed printed photograph
Date
1908
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