St George's House Northern Police Orphanage Harrogate

St George's House,
Northern Police Orphanage. 1898-1956 Harrogate, Yorkshire, England.

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Boys & Girls

The number of children cared for at St George's at any one time varied from year to year. The typical list below shows the
origin and number of children resident in the 1948-49 year.

Place of Origin	Number	Place of Origin	Number
Stockport	1	Tynemouth	2
Derby	2	Nottingham	1
Durham County	3	Shropshire	1
Gateshead	4	Staffordshire	1
Lancashire	1	Stoke on Trent	2
Barrow in Furness	1	Walsall	1
Bolton	2	York	6
Manchester	2	Yorkshire, West Riding	6
Salford	2	Huddersfield	2
Oldham	2	Leeds	5
Lincolnshire	1	Sheffield	5
Northumberland	4	Metropolitan	3
Newcastle on Tyne	3

The children were all provided with uniforms based on red (for St George), blue (for the Police) and grey. They were very smart and well turned out, so much so that when one lady in the congregation of a church saw the children, she wanted to know the name of the college in order that she might arrange for her own offspring to go there ! Miss Knocker wasn't averse to using the best tailors in Leeds (perhaps Prices Tailors or Burtons) for the making of navy blue blazers, winter overcoats etc. Following is a selection of some general photographs of the children.

              Rodney Parker Child 618, entered St George's House         Photo undated
          in 1948. Photo dated 1949

          Barbara & Frank Fawcett                   Olga Hewitson & friend         Barbara Fawcett with Bob Park Olga Hewitson


                        Elsie Harland and William Breeze                                   Colin Parker (seated) with his brother
                   Arthur Haygarth with June Barrington                            Rodney Parker (girls unidentified)

The girls & boys, in their uniforms Peter & Reg Taylor in St George's blazers

   Three rare photographs taken in the early 1900's
     showing the St George's boys and girls in their Sunday
     best Sailors uniforms.
     Photo shown on left:
     The boy located second from the left is
     George Squires (Child 210) who came
     from Leeds and entered St George's in 1914, along
     with his sister Ada Squires. The boy on the far right
     is Ernest Bracken (Child 150) who entered St George's in 1909.

                                                                                The girl located under 'A' is Hannah Bracken known as Dot
                                                                                the girl located above 'B' is her sister Margaret Bracken also
                                                                                known as Maggie or Peggie.

If anyone can provide further information about these photographs please let us know, refer Contact/
Links page for details.

    Lawrence (382) & Cyril (383) Madew        Cyril & Lawrence Madew                             Harold Jones (Child 325)

      Photograph showing that the children originated from
     many towns and cities in the North East and
     elsewhere. In this instance from:
      Middlesborough
      Leeds
      Sheffield
      Hull
      West Riding
      Bradford

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Five St George's boys Dennis (363) & Jack (368) Grist

                     Group photos


             St George's boys & girls, circa early 1900's.
             This is thought to be one of the first group photographs taken of the children.