Here's another lead that I've been doing some work on. Who is the other girl and boy in the photo with her. Here's how far I've got.
Assuming that when those photos were taken, Adelaide and her mother were living at the salvation army shelter in Hanbury st. Maybe thats where Horace Warner got some of the kids from for the photo's, as they are all staged !! Plus Adelaide is obviously dressed up and knew the photo's were to be taken, as is the boy. Which suggests an arangement had been made , rather than him just turning up on streets hoping for the best. So I think he had a connection with the shelter. The comment that he had remained in contact with Adelaide and her mother until the mothers death would bear this out.
There are 2 other girls of around Adelaide's age in that shelter in the 1901 census and a few boys. Now I reckon Adelaide would have been friends with any girl roughly her age, maybe best friends. The 2 other girls listed , I've researched a bit and the boy I believe ended up being killed in ww1.As Ive only got Ancestry tracing the other 2 girls lead to a bit of a dead end but I believe the boy was called James and like I said was killed in WW1.
Now when Adelaides mother died she would have been 13, where would she have gone ? Into service perhaps or maybe living with someone from the shelter that she had got to know.