Hackney Union School, Brentwood, Essex
Children at the Hackney Union School, Brentwood, formerly the Brentwood District School and set up by the Shoreditch Guardians in 1854 to house pauper children. From about 1917, the Metropolitan Asylums Board housed sane epileptics at the site. It later became known as St Faith's Hospital
Picture No
12167259
Media ID
47679970
Size
3259px x 5117px
(9.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard published by RJ Hammond, Brentwood
Date
early 1900s
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