Catalogue description SANTA CLAUS CHILDREN'S HOME

This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

Details of H33/SC
Reference: H33/SC
Title: SANTA CLAUS CHILDREN'S HOME
Description:

These records consist of council and committee minute books (4 volumes) and one account book.

Related material:

Further information on the Santa Claus Children's Home can be found among the reports of the King Edward's Hospital Fund for London (A/KE/258/13 and A/KE/534/1). Correspondence and papers of the Santa Claus Society may be found among the records of the Family Welfare Association enquiry department files (A/FWA/C/D200/1). The Greater London History Library has annual reports for the home for the years 1902-1916 and 1918-1947.

Held by: London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Santa Claus Children's Home, 1891-c 1954

Immediate source of acquisition:

The administrative records of the Santa Claus Children's Home were transferred to the Greater London Record Office with the archives of the Royal Northern Hospital on 31 May 1991.

Subjects:
  • Residential child care
Administrative / biographical background:

The Santa Claus Children's Home, Cholmeley Park, Highgate, was set up by the Santa Claus Society, a children's charity, in 1891. It was a voluntary children's hospital until 1948 when it became a children's convalescent home.

 

Also in 1948, when the National Health Service was introduced, the home came under the control of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board and the Archway Group Hospital Management Committee. It was finally closed around 1954.

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