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Offline Hobday

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Re: royal albert orphanage worcester
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 24 March 11 11:39 GMT (UK) »
I am also looking for information and pictures with regard to the Royal Albert Orphange at Henwick Road in Worchester. My father was there from 1929 to 1943. He also asked me to do this search in hopes of still finding that some of his "school mates" are still alive. He now resides in Canada.

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hi! i have been trying to trace the history of my father and his brother the names are percy john hobday (father) and his brother. There names are Percy John hobday and robert hobday they were in the orphanage around 1929 onwards, percy aged 5 and robert aged 2. I was wondering if your father knew them and could email me with pics andstories your father may know. Sadley Robert died in 1994 and Percy died in 2010.

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Re: royal albert orphanage worcester
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 27 March 11 19:42 BST (UK) »
In Waterstones (Worcester) yesterday and there was a book about this orphanage, I think it was a collection of memories? I'm afraid I didn't get the details but if anyone wants to know I will take a proper look next time I'm there.

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have found the book online. it is called "If only these walls could speak:an orphanage diary" by Alan Hamblin

"This title presents the true story of The Royal Albert Orphanage, Worcester. For the Victorian and Edwardian periods, starting in the 1860s when the orphanage was set up independently by local businessmen, the book draws on the Orphanage's records. However from 1910 onwards, the personal recollections of 33 of the children who lived there during the forty year period up to the early postwar years provide us with a vivid and striking first hand picture of what life for them was really like. Eventually in the mid 1950s dwindling numbers caused the orphanage to move elsewhere before closing entirely in the 1960s. The original rather forbidding looking building in Henwick Road, now listed and occupied by the YMCA, survives to remind us of what many children had to endure in the not so very distant past."

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