History
Her Industrial Home at 23 New Ormond Street (now 22 Great Ormond Street) had taken in a few “aged and infirm persons” over Christmas 1861, and the Committee of the Workhouse Visiting Society decided there was sufficient demand to take the house next door specifically for the purpose (The Kalendar of the English Church Union, 1863)
Another year later, the house on the other side of the Girls’ Home became vacant; it was larger still, so the Home moved there, now housing 30 incurables on its three floors, Harmony, Concord, and Peace (Louisa Twining, Recollections of Life and Work: Being the Autobiography of Louisa Twining, 1893)
According to Twining, her friend Angela Burdett-Coutts was a strong supporter from the outset, as with so many of her institutions (Louisa Twining, letter to The Times, 1 January 1907) o The Times, 1 January 1907)
According to the History of the County of Middlesex, vol. 6 (Victoria County History), it closed between 1937 and 1941
This would come as a surprise to the Home, which is still flourishing in Whetstone
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What was reforming about it?
It was a haven for sick and elderly women who otherwise had nowhere else to go
Their nursing care was at least partly provided by trained girls from the Industrial Home next door
According to Twining, it was only “the second home of the kind in London” (letter to The Times, 1 January 1907)
Where in Bloomsbury
The home then moved to Whetstone as the Woodside Home; by this time, its management was out of Twining’s hands (Louisa Twining, letter to The Times, 1 January 1907)
Website of current institution
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Books about it
Louisa Twining, Recollections of Life and Work: Being the Autobiography of Louisa Twining (1893)
Archives
Records of the Family Welfare Association’s investigation into the Home are held at LMA, ref. A/FWA/C/D/232/001 (closed until 2016); details are available online via Access to Archives (opens in new window)
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