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

Some of Our Girls at John Groom's Orphanage and Crippleage opened in 1890 at Clacton on Sea, 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 Conscience Crippleage Deprived Disability Disabled Engraver Evangelical Orphan Orphanage Orphaned Orphans Preacher

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