IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 2180 TCS/F/02/088
Held at: Children's Society
Title: Records of Corfield House Home, Rustington, Sussex
Date(s): 1952-1981
Level of description: sub-fonds
Extent: 5 volumes and 1 file
Name of creator(s): Corfield House Home, Rustington, Sussex
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Corfield House Home, Rustington, Sussex, was opened in 1951. In 1971, Fairlight Home (The Blanche Wimbridge Trust), which was also based in Rustington, closed down, and the residents and some of the staff from the Fairlight Home were moved into Corfield House Home. Corfield House Home closed in 1981. More information about Corfield House Home can be found on the Hidden Lives Revealed website: http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/homes/RUSTI01.html
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records created and used by Corfield House Home, Rustington, Sussex. Includes the following: Minutes of the local committee, 1965-1981; Gifts books, 1968-1978; Admissions register, 1952-1981; Registers of punishments, 1954-1981; Visitors books, 1952-1971.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
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Conditions governing access:
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Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
A catalogue of records relating to Corfield House Home, Rustington, can be found on the Hidden Lives Revealed website: http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/including_the_excluded/files/Records%20relating%20to%20Corfield%20House%20Home%20Rustington.pdf
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
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ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Files of correspondence and documents relating to the running of Corfield House Home can be found in TCS/F/07/79-83. Correspondence, documents and plans relating to the Corfield House building can be found in TCS/J/03/110-111,113-119. Records of Fairlight Home (The Blanche Wimbridge Trust), Rustington, Sussex, can be found in TCS/F/02/089.
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry transcribed by Geoff Browell.
Date(s) of descriptions: August 2013