Sanatorium at Groom's Crippleage, Clacton, Essex

The sanatorium and holiday home of John Groom's Orphanage and Crippleage at Clacton-on-Sea. Groom, a London engraver and evangelical preacher, was concerned for poor and often disabled flower-sellers and in 1866 set up the Watercress and Flower Girls? Christian Mission, later based at Hendon and Clacton

1866 Clacton Concerned Crippleage Disabled Engraver Evangelical Hendon Often Orphanage Preacher Sanatorium Watercress

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