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ANNUAL INSPECTION OF THE MIDDLESEX INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL AT FELTHAM, 1865. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Annual Inspection of the Middlesex Industrial School at Feltham, 1865. 'The annual inspection of the school established at Feltham, near Hounslow,..."to make provision for the care, reformation, and education of juvenile offenders," took place on Wednesday week. Any boy of age between seven and fourteen who is convicted of any criminal offence may be committed to this school for a period of not less than one year and not more than three. The school is built and supported entirely at the cost of the county rate...The number of inmates averages about 560 boys, under the charge of thirty-three resident and thirteen non-resident officers...The cost of maintenance and management is at the rate of £20 per head. The inspection...showed that the school is in a very satisfactory state. The ordinary forenoon routine of teaching was strictly observed, while the different workshops were also kept busy till the dinner hour: after which the boys were paraded and marched to chapel, headed by the band, and saluting the company as they went past a flagstaff erected in the ground. After Divine worship they were assembled for singing, their vocal performances being directed by the master, who stood on a chair in front of the line'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865. Annual Inspection of the Middlesex Industrial School at Feltham, 1865. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609543337
FOOT-RACES AT THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THE ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS, EARLSWOOD, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Foot-Races at the annual festival of the Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, 1864. 'The annual festival provided by a kind and judicious management for the inmates of the Earlswood Asylum, near Redhill, took place on Thursday week. A numerous company of the friends and patrons of that institution, with other visitors, had come to witness the enjoyment of these poor young folks in the sports and pastimes of the day. There were games of cricket, football, and croquet, Aunt Sally, Punch and Judy, races, and jumping-matches for prizes. The patients appeared to enter into these games with considerable pleasure, and with an unexpected display of skill and intelligence...The Earlswood Asylum now holds 377 inmates, who are divided into classes, and accommodated according to their rates of payment - those paying the lowest being placed on the same footing as the non-paying inmates. The visitors, who went over the whole house, were fully satisfied with the arrangements for the different classes - private bed-rooms and sitting-rooms for those who can afford them, large airy dormitories, comfortably furnished for the second-class, and for the third-class and elected patients apartments quite as comfortable, but not quite so elegant'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Foot-Races at the annual festival of the Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 609486880
HARVEST-HOME AT THE PHILANTHROPIC SOCIETY'S FARM-SCHOOL, REDHILL, 1864. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Harvest-home at the Philanthropic Society's farm-school, Redhill, 1864. 'This institution...is designed for the instruction and moral reformation chiefly of boys under fifteen years of age, who have been convicted of crime and sentenced to a few years' detention in a reformatory under the Juvenile Offenders' Act. The...[boys] are employed in field labour, garden and house work, brickmaking...[etc]. After their discharge a portion of them...are assisted to emigrate...The harvest home...attracted a number of visitors to see the games in a field near the farmyard...Here, though the wet grass and soft ground somewhat interfered with the exercises, the boys contended for prizes, in hurdle-racing, long and high jumping, flat-racing, jumping in sacks, trussed racing, balance riding, and climbing. A contest of a more irregular but not less agreeable character took place in the form of a very amusing scramble for a sackfull of apples, in the course of which no small amount of tumbling about was to be seen, and a few pretty hard knocks were received by the actors, who took all in good part and appeared each well satisfied with his share. Prizes for general conduct, progress in school, cleanliness and order, were given'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Harvest-home at the Philanthropic Society's farm-school, Redhill, 1864. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
(RM) 601160429
GIRLS MAKING CARTRIDGES FOR ENFIELD RIFLES AT THE ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOLWICH, 1862. CREATOR: UNKNOWN.
Girls making cartridges for Enfield rifles at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1862. 'Our illustration was taken [at]...the Royal Laboratory Department...near the Plumstead marshes. Each girl has a pile of small sheets of cartridge-paper before her, and also a tray of elongated bullets. She has to roll up the paper round a wooden dummy or former, the bullet being inserted at one end, which she ties up tight with string, cutting off the ends of it with a pair of scissors. The cartridges are then ready to be filled with powder...About 200 girls are employed...The girls' ages vary from ten to fourteen years, and they are the children of soldiers and arsenal workmen...They are all on piecework, and make about 900,000 cartridges per week. Clever girls will earn on an average from 8s. to 11s. per week. The nimbleness with which their little fingers rattle over the work is truly wonderful...They work only five days per week, and their hours of employment are from 7.30 a.m. till 5 p.m...The buildings in the winter are heated by means of steam-piping, and are suitably ventilated. Every attention is paid to the health and good conduct of the girls, who looked as happy as possible, but gave unmistakable signs of their sex by the chatter, chatter...'. From "Illustrated London News", 1862. Girls making cartridges for Enfield rifles at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, 1862. Creator: Unknown. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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