Industrial School, Chelmsford, Essex
The Essex Industrial School on Rainsford Road, Primrose Hill, Chelmsford, Essex, certified in 1879 to hold 150 boys. In 1933 it became the Essex Home Approved School. Industrial Schools 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
10418861
Media ID
47549069
Size
4586px x 2682px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard published by Kingsway
Date
circa 1915
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