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« on: Monday 20 February 12 20:35 GMT (UK) »
Hi Jason,
I must keep visiting this site on a more regular basis.
I am led to believe this orphanage home finally closed in 1943. Before that, I do know for a fact that the old Southampton Titanic Relief Fund Committee use to hold their monthly meetings here. Frederick Woolley was the Secretary of this Orphanage like he was the Secretary of the Relief Fund. The reason was avoid the monthly meetings held down in Portland Terrace for the fear of an unexpected air-raid alert. I have in my posession all 653 pages of the Minute Books of the Relief Fund which I have compiled by hand.
In the past I have made myself a pact to try and find what happened to all the paperwork like Minute Books etc.., and still I am left in cloud nine as no one at Southampton Archives seems to know the actual plight of this valuable material.
I hope I have supplied the above has kind off helped you and other's with some of the unknown answers you're looking for? Otherwise I am very much in the dark like every one else who is frantically trying all desperate measures searching for this lost material.