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The Foundling Museum

The Foundling Museum Museum Review 40 Brunswick Square, London, WCIN IAZ In 1926, the original permanent home of the London Foundling Hospital near Brunswick Square was demolished, and its young charges moved to temporary accommodation in Redhill, Surrey. The institution had operated as a home for aban- doned children since 1741 - since 1745 on the Brunswick Square site. It had housed tens of thousands of children over the period, provided a showcase for many valu- able works of art and sculpture, and played its part in London's fashionable social world. In 1935 the last children being cared for by the hospital were transferred to foster care. The Foundling Hospital's final home in Berkhampstead was sold to Hertfordshire County Council as part of a more general move away from institu- tional care for the young. The Foundling Museum, opened in 2004 near the site of the hospital's first permanent home, traces the history of all these developments, and preserves a part of the old hospital itself in the magnificent Court Room and Boys' Staircase. Its opening is timely, since there is both a growing general interest in his- tories of children and poverty (the hospital also featured in a Channel 4 series http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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© 2005 Maney Publishing
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1749-6322
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0305-8034
DOI
10.1179/ldn.2005.30.2.85
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Museum Review 40 Brunswick Square, London, WCIN IAZ In 1926, the original permanent home of the London Foundling Hospital near Brunswick Square was demolished, and its young charges moved to temporary accommodation in Redhill, Surrey. The institution had operated as a home for aban- doned children since 1741 - since 1745 on the Brunswick Square site. It had housed tens of thousands of children over the period, provided a showcase for many valu- able works of art and sculpture, and played its part in London's fashionable social world. In 1935 the last children being cared for by the hospital were transferred to foster care. The Foundling Hospital's final home in Berkhampstead was sold to Hertfordshire County Council as part of a more general move away from institu- tional care for the young. The Foundling Museum, opened in 2004 near the site of the hospital's first permanent home, traces the history of all these developments, and preserves a part of the old hospital itself in the magnificent Court Room and Boys' Staircase. Its opening is timely, since there is both a growing general interest in his- tories of children and poverty (the hospital also featured in a Channel 4 series

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The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present – Taylor & Francis

Published: Nov 1, 2005

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