Industrial School for Girls, Sale, Cheshire
The Manchester Branch Industrial School for Girls, erected in 1870 on Northenden Road, Sale, for 100 girls. From 1933, it became an Approved School. 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
10418856
Media ID
47549051
Size
4679px x 2856px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph on a postcard published by Neil's of Altrincham
Date
early 20th century
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