Catalogue description SOMERSET CERTIFIED INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, BATH

Introductory Note.

The Somerset Certified Industrial School (otherwise the Somersetshire Industrial Home for Boys), Lower Bristol Road, Bath, was founded under the provisions of the Industrial Schools Act, 1866, and certified on 19th July that year to accommodate 180 boys. The stated object of the home was 'to reclaim abandoned boys, and to rescue those whose unhappy circumstances would inevitably lead them to crime and profligacy' (DD/SCS 7), inmates being drawn not only from Somerset but also from places at a considerable distance. As the Somersetshire Home for Boys, it was still in existence in 1927, but had evidently closed by 1931 (Kelly's Directory, 1927, 1931).

For plans, etc., relating to proposed alterations to the school, 1897-1900, see Q/AGz 20/4.

Somerset Certified Industrial School, Bath, Somerset

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• Bath, Somerset