Mr Saunders with his baker's truck near Albert Place. On the left is 'Hope Lodge', so called because it was a home for children rescued by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Its aim was to 'train the children into good and useful men and women, giving them a remembrance of a really happy home when they have to go out into the world to earn their livelihood.' The older children may have been put to work in the 'Hope Laundry' which was probably run from here.
A huge fire in 1907 threatened its destruction and 'The Rev Harri Oliver, the matron and Mr Edwards quickly removed the children (from 6 - 12 years old) wrapped in blankets and bedclothes and they were given sanctuary in the house of J W Clark who lived opposite'.
For more on the fire see p117-121 in 'Fires Firemen and Other Mishaps'.
Date: c1910
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