Boys’ gymnastic display from the 1938 Festival. The annual Festival was held on a day near to the founder’s birthday of 19 June – and so was also known as Founder’s Day. Visitors could tour the premises and meet staff and children as well as watch displays put on by the boys and girls. Photo courtesy of Photopress. Original image and copyright held by Spurgeon’s Child Care Trust.Ref: IV\/243\/1-6, SPd 3556<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Boys’ gymnastic display from the 1938 Festival. The annual Festival was held on a day near to the founder’s birthday of 19 June – and so was also known as Founder’s Day. Visitors could tour the premises and meet staff and children as well as watch displays put on by the boys and girls. Photo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,33,197,57,15,32,30,6,59,58,281,12,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1926-1950","category-celebrations-and-events","category-charlesworth-rev-v-j","category-education","category-entertainment","category-festivals","category-people","category-photograph","category-recreation-and-leisure","category-sport","category-spurgeons_homes","category-stockwell","category-welfare-and-social-institutions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n