| Description | Similarly to the Service Girls Home sub-committee (see GP B/2/6/10), the Working Boys Homes sub-committee was appointed by the Children's Homes committee in October 1912. Originally designed to enquire into the viability of setting up a home for working boys, by the November of that year the committee had submitted its report, and the Board of Guardians agreed to the founding of a home in the Union's premises on Vauxhall Road. Having been established, the sub-committee continued to administer the day-to-day running of the home. Rather than actually teaching the boys a trade (which would have been done in the Union's cottage homes), the home existed to help those 'youths placed at trades in which they cannot in the early period after leaving the Children's Homes earn sufficient to entirely maintain themselves' (see GP B/2/6/12/1, below).
The volumes contain details on all aspects of life in the homes, including their initial furnishing and renovation, along with some details on the boys themselves. |