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NORWOOD SCHOOLS, WEST NORWOOD

NORWOOD SCHOOLS, WEST NORWOOD

Norwood Schools, with an intake of over seven hundred children who came under the operation of the Poor Law, was built initially as an industrial school and run as a strict but caring establishment. In addition to the ordinary elementary education girls were taught cooking, laundry work, as well as cutting out and making clothes. This view shows a sewing class where the girls are also taught how to use sewing machines.Photograph from an article entitled 'A Day in the Life of a Workhouse Child'.
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Ref:05841
Identifier:Cuttings File 71
Date:c.1905

#1901 - 1925  #ARCHITECTURE / BUILDINGS  #COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY  #EDUCATION  #People  #Photograph  #TRADE  #WELFARE AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS  #WEST NORWOOD