Nazareth Home Children, Lancaster

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268754

Reference identifier

ZRO20150430001

Title

Nazareth Home Children, Lancaster

Place

Lancaster

General notes

The photograph is shown by kind permission of Mrs May Pigrum, daughter of Ellen Crowe, one of the girls in the photograph. Ellen is on the second row from the top at the left hand side. Her sister Ann is second from the right on the same row.

The original postcard was badly damaged . This image has been altered to remove creases and marks.

"....in 1902 the new Nazareth House opened, replacing an earlier building in Dalton Square. Canon Billington's account reads as follows: "The work of the Poor Sisters of Nazareth is well known, the blue-edged cloaks and veils of the sisters being familiar in the streets and railway stations. The order was founded in France in 1851, and undertakes the care of orphans, of children suffering from incurable diseases, and of aged men and women. The children must be Catholics, but the older persons may be Protestants. The sisters settled in Dalton Square in 1899, in a house now pulled down to make way for the new Town Hall, and in 1902 entered the new house built for them in Ashton Road, on land procured from Miss Margaret Coulston by an arrangement with Canon Billington"

From http://billingtonlancaster.blogspot.co.uk/ 23/04/2015

The photographer William Johnston appears in Dale Street in the 1911 Census aged 27.

Medium

Postcard

Colour

Sepia

Year of image

c1912

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Subjects

Place Names > Lancaster

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