The Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage was an orphanage for children of officers in the Metropolitan Police and City of London Police. It was established on 1 January 1870 as the Metropolitan Police Orphanage, opened its building at Fortescue House in Twickenham the following October and extended to the City of London Police in 1871.[1] It moved to Wellesley House on Hampton Road, also in Twickenham, in 1874 and a War Memorial Hospital was added in its grounds in 1923.[2] The Orphanage closed in 1937, handing Wellesley House to the Shaftesbury Homes, and the Metropolitan and City Police Orphans Fund was established in its place.[3] The Wellesley House site was demolished and redeveloped in 1971.

References

  1. ↑ "Twickenham Museum - Schools - Fortescue House School 1937 - 1971".
  2. ↑ "Twickenham Museum - Places - Wellesley House".
  3. ↑ "History and Archive".

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