Portslade Industrial School - Carpentry Workshop
Boys at work in the carpentry workshop at Portslade Industrial School near Brighton in Sussex. The school opened in 1902 to house children aged 7-15 placed there by magistrates for reasons such as vagrancy, begging, disrupting schools, or living with prostitutes. After 1933, Portslade became Mile Oak Approved School
Picture No
10512870
Media ID
47553828
Size
5152px x 3772px
(6.2MB)
Credit
Mary Evans/Peter Higginbotham Collection
Source
Unattributed photograph in guide to the school
Date
circa 1905
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