The establishments listed below are believed to have provided at least some accommodation
for unmarried mothers and their babies, during at least some of their existence.
They include maternity homes, before-and-after-confinement care homes, hostels for
pregnant working girls or working mothers, and Irish County Homes.
Homes that in their day were labelled Magdalen Homes are listed elsewhere.
Name and Location | Founded/Opened | Closed/Moved | Classes Received, Weekly fees, etc. | Places | Admission Age |
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Broadfield House, Steam Road, Kingswinford, Brierly Hill | by 1964 | | Before and After Care Home. | 18m/10b | |
The Girls' Home, 53 Union Street, Burton upon Trent | by 1949 | | Before and After Care Home. | 6m/4b | |
Mother and Baby Home, 53 Union Street, Burton-on-Trent | by 1949 | | Before and After Care Home. | 7m/4b | |
Lyncroft House, Stafford Road, Lichfield | by 1949 | by 1953 | Maternity Home. | 20m/16b | |
North Staffordshire Hostel for Mothers and Babies, 2 Enderley Street, Newcastle under Lyme | by 1949 | by 1956 | Before and After Care Home. | 6m/3b | |
Astbury House, 27 Little Moor Hill, Smethwick | by 1964 | 1987 | Before and After Care Home. | 13m/6b | |
Glentworth Mothercraft Hostel, Rowley Bank, Stafford | by 1949 | | After Care Home. | 11m/11b | |
Mrs Legge Memorial Home, 134 Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton | by 1964 | | Before and After Care Home. | 13m/8b | |
Mrs Hay Memorial Home, 36 Merridale Road, Wolverhampton | by 1949 | | Before and After Care Home. | 12m/6b | under 20 |
Mrs Hay Memorial Home, 38 Park Road East, Wolverhampton | by 1964 | | Before and After Care Home. | 14m/8b | |
Mrs Legge Memorial Home, 89 North Road, Wolverhampton | 1913 | | Girls before birth of first illegitimate child. Diocesan cases, 12s. 6d.; others, 15s. | 12 | no limit |
Mrs Legge Memorial Home, 89 North Road, Wolverhampton | by 1935 | | Before and After Care Home. | 12m/12b | |
Name and Location | Founded/Opened | Closed/Moved | Classes Received, Weekly fees, etc. | Places | Admission Age |
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Convalescent Home of Rest, 28 Cleveland Road, Barnes | | | Domestic servants or girls in business (first fall only). From 6s. Weekley. | 8m/5b | 15-20 |
Glazier House, 26 Stretton Road, Croydon | by 1949 | 1964 | Hostel for Pregnant Working Girls. | 9m | |
St Aubyn's Shelter, Horsham Road, Dorking | by 1949 | | Before and After Care Home. | 10m/3b | |
Esher House, 6 Arnison Road, East Molesey | 1975 | 1983 | Young, single mothers and their babies. | | |
Richmond Ladies' Association Refuge / Mission House Female Aid Society, Moore House, Paynesfield Avenue, East Sheen | by 1912 | | Fallen women; mothers and babies; temporarily. | 14 | no limit |
Mothers' Hostel, Waltham House, 28 Worple Road, Epsom | by 1918 | | | | |
Waltham House Hostel, Epsom | 1915 | | Mothers of domestic servant class with their babies; 15s. if possible; remain five months. or longer. | 16 | 16-25 |
Assisi (St Joseph's) Mother and Baby Home, Hammer Lane, Grayshott | by 1949 | | | 36m/20b | |
Avondale, 9 Sydney Road, Guildford | by 1964 | | Before and After Care Home. | 11m/6b | |
Home of the Good Shepherd, Haslemere | 1916 | | Fallen and friendless girls; temporarily. By 1935: Mothers and babies; remain four months. | 12m/12b | under 30 |
Kingston Deanery Home, 18 Richmond Park Road, Kingston upon Thames | by 1935 | | Maternity and rescue cases; local cases free, others 10s. | 19m/12b | under 30 |
Kingston and Surbiton Shelter, 45 Fairfield South, Kingston upon Thames | by 1930 | | Maternity and rescue cases; temporarily; local cases free, others 10s. 6d. before and 12s. 6d. after confinement. | 6 | under 30 |
Kingston and Surbiton Ladies' Association, Mission House, 26 Gibbon Road, Kingston upon Thames | 1887 | | Friendless or fallen girls; local cases only; temporarily. | 4 | under 24 |
Richmond Hostel for Unmarried Mothers and Babies, 1 The Hermitage, Richmond | 1924 | | Mothers with their babies; payment according to circumstances. | 4 | no limit |
Glazier House, 53 Birdhurst Road, South Croydon | 1964 | | Hostel for Pregnant Working Girls. | 9m | |
Mission of Hope, Birdhurst Lodge, 14 South Park Hill Road, South Croydon | by 1930 | | Mothers, expectant mothers, infants and toddlers. | 36m/21b | no limit |
Mission of Hope, Blythswood, 43 St Peter's Road, South Croydon | by 1920 | | Mothers and babies. | 30 | under 30 |
The Haven, 2 Camden Road, Sutton | by 1949 | | Before and After Care Home. | 10m/6b | |
Sutton Home, Crossways, Benhill Road, Sutton | 1903 | | Maternity cases; Diocesan cases, 5s., others, 7s. 6d. | 15 | under 26 |
Emly House, 185 Sidney Road, Walton-on-Thames | by 1964 | | Before and After Care Home. | 11m/6b | over 16 |
Emly House, Rydens Avenue, Walton-on-Thames | by 1949 | | Before and After Care Home. | 4m/4b | |
Haygarth-Witts Memorial Home, 54 The Ridgeway, Wimbledon | by 1949 | | Before and After Care Home. | 12m/8b | over 15 |
Dorincourt, Elm Road, Woodham Rise, Woking | by 1964 | | Before and After Care Home. | 12m/8b | |
Woking Preventive and Rescue Home, St Margaret's, 21-23 Ferndale Road, Horsell, Woking | 1901 | | Rescue, preventive and maternity cases; also mothers and babies. | 12m/6b | over 17 |
Name and Location | Founded/Opened | Closed/Moved | Classes Received, Weekly fees, etc. | Places | Admission Age |
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Albion House, 11 Finsbury Road, Albion Hill, Brighton | by 1920 | by 1953 | Young unmarried mothers before and after confinement; 10s. | 40m/36b | 16-25 |
Garton House, 22 Stanford Avenue, Brighton | by 1964 | | Before and After Care Home, | 15m/4b | |
Melbourne House, Whitehill Road, Crowborough | | | | | |
The Bell Hostel, 2 (later 12) Salehurst Road, Eastbourne | by 1930 | | Mothers with their babies; from 20s. | 14m/16b. | under 30 |
Upwick Vale Rescue Home, Salehurst Street (now Road), Eastbourne | by 1897 | | Lately fallen women, including those awaiting and after confinement; mothers remain with children for six months at 6s. 6d., the infants retained for three years at 3s. 6d. | 24 | 14-23 |
Day Servants' Hostel, 21 Seafield Road, Hove | 1918 | | Unmarried mothers (with first baby); 25s. | 9 | under 30 |
Seaford House, 1 Prospect Villas, 60 Claremont Road, Seaford | | | | | |