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Bourne Place, Tonbridge, Kent

Bourne Place, a residential school for children with special needs, was established in 1967 by the National Children's Home (NCH) in a house on Nizels Lane at Hildenborough, near Tonbridge. Initially, the school housed twenty-five children aged from 8 to 16. Extensions to the premises then increased its capacity to around a hundred.

Following the closure of the school, the property was converted to private residential use.

Records

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  • Action For Children (formerly the National Children's Home). Can provide access to their own records for individuals who were adopted through the charity or who resided in one of its homes. Help also for those searching for family history information.

Bibliography

  • Bradfield, William The Life of the Reverend Thomas Bowman Stephenson (1913, Kelly)
  • Curnock, Nehemiah The Story of the Children's Home (C.H. Kelly, 1901)
  • Higginbotham, Peter Children's Homes: A History of Institutional Care for Britain's Young (2017, Pen & Sword)
  • Horner, Francis Shadow and Sun (Epworth Press, 1920)
  • Howard, Philip J Philip: a Strange Child (Dalkeith Publishing, 2007)
  • Philpot, Terry Action For Children (Lion, 1994)
  • Walpole, Cecil F. Golden Links (Epworth Press, 1941)

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