Records of St Nicholas' Home for Crippled Children, Upper Tooting, Surrey and others

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 2180 TCS/F/02/022
Held at	: Children's Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/ ›
Full title	: Records of St Nicholas' Home for Crippled Children, Upper Tooting, Surrey and others
Date(s)	: [1893]-1938
Level of description	: Sub-fonds
Extent	: 8 items
Name of creator(s)	: St Nicholas' Home for Crippled Children, Upper Tooting St Nicholas' Home, West Byfleet, Surrey St Nicholas' Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School, Pyrford, near Woking St Martin's Home For Crippled Boys, Surbiton, Surrey St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital And Special School, Pyrford, Surrey St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School, Pyrford

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The St Nicholas' Home for Crippled Children was opened at Upper Tooting, Surrey in 1888. In 1893, the home was moved to West Byfleet, Surrey, and in 1908, the home was moved once again, this time to Pyrford, Surrey. The St Martin's Home For Crippled Boys was opened at Surbiton, Surrey in 1898. In 1916, the home was moved to Pyrford, Surrey. The St Nicholas' and St Martin's homes in Pyrford were located next door to each other. In 1923, the two Pyrford homes were amalgamated to become St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School. In 1948, St Nicholas' and St Martin's was taken over by the National Health Service and was renamed the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital. More information about the homes can be found on the Hidden Lives Revealed website: St Nicholas' Home, Tooting - http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/homes/TOOTI01.html; St Nicholas' Home, Byfleet - http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/homes/BYFLE02.html; St Nicholas' Home, Pyrford - http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/homes/PYRFO01.html; St Martin's Home, Surbiton - http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/homes/SURBI01.html; St Martin's Home, Pyrford - http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/homes/PYRFO02.html; St Nicholas' and St Martin's Home, Pyrford - http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/homes/PYRFO03.html.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records created and used by St Nicholas', Upper Tooting; St Nicholas', West Byfleet; St Nicholas', Pyrford; St Martin's, Surbiton; St Martin's, Pyrford; and St Nicholas' and St Martin's, Pyrford. Includes the following: Annual reports for St Martin's Home For Crippled Boys, Surbiton, Surrey, 1902; Annual reports for St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School, Pyrford, Surrey, 1937-1938; Plans of St Nicholas' Home, West Byfleet, Surrey, c1893; An order of service for the laying of the foundation stone of of St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital And Special School, Pyrford, near Woking, Surrey, 1915.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

The records for all six homes have been placed in the same sub sub fonds. There is no clear break between the administration of the different homes, suggesting that the records of the homes were treated as one unit when St Nicholas' and St Martin's were amalgamated together.

Conditions governing access:

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Conditions governing reproduction:

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Finding aids:

A catalogue of records relating to the St Nicholas' and St Martin's Homes can be found on the Hidden Lives Revealed website: http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/including_the_excluded/files/Records%20relating%20to%20St%20Nicholas%20and%20St%20Martins%20Homes.pdf

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

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Allied Materials

Related material:

A flyer advertising the sale of goods to raise money for St Nicholas' Home for Crippled Children, Upper Tooting, Surrey, can be found in TCS/E/01/01/94/a. A file of correspondence and documents relating to building and development work at St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School, Pyrford, Surrey, can be found in TCS/F/07/74. Correspondence and documents relating to the running of St Nicholas' Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School, Pyrford, Surrey, and St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School, Pyrford, can be found in TCS/F/08/022. The records of the chapel at St Nicholas' Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School, Pyrford, Surrey, and St Nicholas' and St Martin's Orthopaedic Hospital and Special School, Pyrford, can be found in STNCP. Case papers for children who stayed at all six homes can be found in TCS/F/14/02 and TCS/F/01.Further records of the St Nicholas' and St Martin's homes, and the records of the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital, are held by Surrey History Centre.

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Transcribed by Geoff Browell.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
August 2013