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Title: Workhouse Records
Post by: wiltshire21 on Sunday 11 June 23 11:04 BST (UK)

My great grandfather appears on the 1911 census as an inmate at Islington Guardian's Schools, Andover Row, Hornsey Road, Tollington Park, London .Is there any way I can check the records to find out about his time at this school

Title: Re: Workhouse Records
Post by: rosie99 on Sunday 11 June 23 12:03 BST (UK)

This mentions Andover Children's Home, Hornsey Road

https://search.lma.gov.uk/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/LMA_OPAC/web_detail/REFD+ISBG?SESSIONSEARCH

also
https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Islington/

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/e0f39eba-1cf7-4f14-a5f6-caa383f9ce7b

https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F102705

http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/list/PL3.shtml

Title: Re: Workhouse Records
Post by: jorose on Monday 12 June 23 02:39 BST (UK)

https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1224679?availability=Family%20History%20Library
Andover Home admission and discharge records start on page 3 of the list, but he may also be found in the workhouse records - children often went through the workhouse first before being assigned to a children's home.

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