Children's Homes and Institutions in Derbyshire, England
Abbreviations:
AB=Northern Ireland Area Board; AS=Approved School; BC=Borough Council; BI=Borstal;
CC=County Council; CHE=Community Home; CS=Certified School; DB=Barnardo's;
DC=Detention Centre; IS=Industrial School; LA=Ladies' Association; LC=London Borough Council;
LD=List D; MB=Mothers/Babies; MH=Magdalen Home; NCH=National Children's Home;
PHm=Probation Home; PHs=Probation Hostel; PL=Poor Law Home; Rfy=Reformatory School;
SA=Salvation Army; WS=Waifs & Strays / Children's Society.
Links marked * are to pages on www.workhouses.org.uk.
- Derbyshire Council Fairlawn, 22 Kings Croft, Allestree (CC)
- Ashbourne Union / Derbyshire Council Cottage Homes, 58-60 Mayfield Road, Ashbourne* (PL/CC)
- St Monica's Home for Girls, 37/39 Windmill Lane, Ashbourne (CS/WS)
- Aston Hall, Weston Road, Aston-on-Trent
- Derbyshire Council Home, The Outrake, Little Longstone, Bakewell (CC)
- Belper Union / Derbyshire Council Cottage Homes (Girls), 50-52 Holbrook Road, Belper* (PL/CC)
- Derbyshire Council Home, Blackbrook House, Ashbourne Road, Belper (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Home, Fernslope, Chesterfield Road, Belper (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Home, Highfield, Holbrook Road, Belper (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Home for Boys, Meadow Bank, Parkside, Belper (CC)
- Belper Union / Derbyshire Council Cottage Homes, Park Side, Belper* (PL/CC)
- Derby and Derbyshire Association for Help and Protection of Girls, 32 Long Row, Belper (MH)
- Borrowash House /St Joseph's, 67 Nottingham Road, Borrowash (MB)
- Chesterfield Union School / Derbyshire Council Home, Ashgate Road, Brampton* (PL/CC)
- Derbyshire Council Wychwood Nursery, 46 St John's Road, Buxton (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Boys' Hostel, Corbar View, 1-3 Fountain Street, Buxton (CC)
- Chapel-en-le-Frith Union / Derbyshire Council Home, Manchester Road, Chapel en-le-Frith* (PL/CC)
- Derbyshire Council Home, Cromwell House, Manchester Road, Chapel-en-le-Frith (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Belmont Nursery, Baslow Road, Chesterfield (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Home, Dale Bank, 56 Cobden Road, Chesterfield (CC)
- Chesterfield Rescue Home, 3 Fairfield Place, Chesterfield (MH)
- Overton Hall School for Boys, Gin Lane, Ashover, Chesterfield (AS)
- Chesterfield Rescue Home, Magdalen Cottage, Church Lane, Chesterfield (MH)
- Chesterfield Rescue Home, Magdalen House, 2 Cromwell Road, Chesterfield (MH)
- Whittington Midland Counties Institution, Whittington Hall, Woodmere Drive, Chesterfield
- Derby Council Eastmead, 107 Duffield Road, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council Home, 14 Albany Road, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council Rowditch Lodge, 2 Thornhill Road, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council Home, 22 Bute Walk, Derby (BC)
- Derby Union/Council Scattered Home, 2-3 Friary Street, Derby* (PL/BC)
- Derby Union/Council Receiving Home, 2-4 Mount Street, Derby* (PL/BC)
- Derby Union/Council Scattered Home, 27-29 Clarence Road, Derby* (PL/BC)
- Derby Union/Council Scattered Home, 35 Gerard Street, Derby* (PL/BC)
- Derby Council Home, 35 Mount Carmel Street, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council The Mount Residential Nursery, 4 Albany Road, Derby (BC)
- Derby Union/Council Scattered Home, 42-44 Park Grove, Derby* (PL/BC)
- Derby Council Home, 43 Brentford Drive, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council Home, 64 Birdcage Walk, Derby (BC)
- Derby Union/Council Girls' Training Homes, 67-69 Burton Road, Derby* (PL/BC)
- Derby Union/Council Scattered Home, 89-91 Porter Road, Derby* (PL/BC)
- Derby Council Home, Chesapeake Road, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council Home, Cricklewood Road, Mackworth Estate, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council Receiving Home, Elmhurst, Lonsdale Place, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council Remand Home for Girls, The Cedars, Hill Top, Breadsall, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council Residential Nursery, The Mount, 4 Albany Road, Derby (BC)
- Derby Corporation Institution, Thornhill, Trowels Lane, Derby (BC)
- Derby Council Boundary House Residential Nursery, Uttoxeter Road, Derby (BC)
- Derbyshire Council Hostel for Girls, 191 Burton Road, Derby (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Home, Fairlawn, Kingscroft, Allertree, Derby (CC)
- Mother and Baby Home, 10 Vernon Street, Derby (MB)
- GFS Lodge, 18 Gerard St, Derby
- Derby and Derbyshire Association for Help and Protection of Girls, 18 Leopold Street, Derby (MH)
- GFS Lodge, 19 Friar Gate, Derby (CS)
- GFS Lodge, 29 Charnwood Street, Derby
- Captain Fielden's Orphanage, 30 Windmill Hill Lane, Derby
- Training School and Free Register, 50 Bridge Street, Derby (LA)
- Derby Temporary Home, 54 Henry Street, Derby (MH)
- Mother and Baby Home, 55 Gerard Street, Derby (MB)
- Derby Temporary Home, 55 Gerard Street, Derby (MH)
- GFS Lodge, 56 The Grove, Derby
- Derby and Derbyshire Home for Penitent Females (St Margaret's Home), 6 Bass Street, Derby (MH)
- Derby and Derbyshire Association for Help and Protection of Girls, 72 Normanton Road, Derby (MH)
- Railway Servants' Orphanage, Ashbourne Road, Derby
- Midland / Royal Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Friar Gate, Derby
- Morley Manor, Main Road, Morley, Derby (DB)
- Hopwell Hall Colony / School, Ockbrook, Derby
- Southwood Home, Port Way, Holbrook, Derby (DB)
- Mary Wilkinson memorial Home-making School, Stenson Lane, Littleover, Derby (CS)
- Free Registry and Association for Befriending Destitute Children, The Refuge, Evans Cottage Home, Windmill Hill Lane, Derby
- The Orphanage, Evans Cottage Homes, Windmill Hill Lane, Derby
- Derbyshire Council Springhill, Hazelwood Road, Duffield (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Home, Southgate House, Southgate, Eckington (CC)
- Foston Hall School, Foston (AS)
- Foston Hall Detention Centre, Foston (DC)
- Derbyshire Council Whitfield Day Nursery, Victoria Street, Glossop (CC)
- Tameside Council Home, Hadfield House, Hadfield Road, Hadfield (BC)
- Derbyshire Council Boys' Hostel, Albany House, Albany Street, Ilkeston (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Girls' Hostel, Brooklands, Little Hallam Hill, Ilkeston (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Day Nursery, Whitworth Road, Ilkeston (CC)
- Eaton Hill Home, Alfreton Road, Little Eaton (WS)
- Derbyshire Council Home, Glenholme, Dove Lane, Long Eaton (CC)
- Derbyshire Council Day Nursery, Off Lime Terrace, Long Eaton (CC)
- St Andrew's Home for Boys, Cliffe House, Tansley Road, Matlock (CS/WS)
- Ernest Bailey Nursery and Unit for Disabled Children, The Butts, Butts Drive, Matlock (WS)
- Derby Council Home, 269 Uttoxter Road, Mickleover (BC)
- Derby Council Home, Vicarage Road, Mickleover (BC)
- Derbyshire Council Westwood Nursery, 175 Station Road, Mickleover (CC)
- Shardlow Union / Derbyshire Council Scattered Home, The Grove, Shardlow* (PL/CC)
- Derbyshire Council Linden House, Church Street, Swadlincote (CC)
- Cherrytree Orphanage, Mickley Lane, Totley Rise, Totley
- Derbyshire Council Millfield, 82 High Lane West, West Hallam (CC)
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