Hidden Lives Revealed. A virtual archive - children in care 1881-1981 * Image of handwritten text

The Annual Reports

If you want to know how the Waifs and Strays' Society grew in its earliest years, the best source of information is the Annual Reports. The Reports would detail the building and development of the Society's homes, and the often precarious state of the Society's finances. As well as being the place to find out about the Society's corporate organisation, the earliest Reports would often also summarise all the cases of all the children in the Society's care.

You can browse through the publications below :-

N.B. These publications are of a high resolution, with average file sizes of 200K.

Year/Month
1882 1884 1885 1886 1887 Mar 1887 Dec 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894
1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1908 1909
1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920    


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