St Nicholas' Home for Mothers and Babies, Highbury, London
St Nicholas' Home for Mothers and Babies was established by the Crusade of Rescue in 1928 at 31 Highbury Hill, Highbury, London N5. It accommodated up to 12 unmarried Roman Catholic girls, aged from 17 to 26, who were expecting or who had just had, their first child.
Records
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- Try Catholic Children's Society (Westminster) [formerly the Crusade of Rescue], 73 St Charles Square, London W10 6EJ.
Bibliography
- Bartley, Paula Prostitution: Prevention and Reform in England, 1860-1914 (2000, Routledge)
- Finnegan, Frances Poverty and Prostitution: A Study of Victorian Prostitutes in York (1979, CUP)
- Hopkins, Jane Ellice, Work Among the Lost (1870, William Macintosh) Nokes, Harriet Twenty-Three Years in a House of Mercy (1886, Rivingtons)
- Taylor, William J The Story of the Homes (1907, London Female Preventive and Reformatory Institution)
- Thomas, E W Twenty-Five Years' Labour Among the Friendless and Fallen (1897, Shaw)
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