John Groom's Orphanage, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex

A terrace of homes at John Groom's Orphanage and Crippleage at Clacton in Essex. Groom was a London engraver and evangelical preacher, whose concern for poor and often disabled flower-sellers, and for deprived and orphaned children led him to set up a charity which in 1907 became John Groom's Crippleage and Flower Girls Mission

Clacton Crippleage Deprived Disabled Engraver Evangelical Often Orphanage Orphaned Pauper Preacher

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