2-699-498 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum (For Girls)', (c1878). Building off Trinity Road in Wandsworth, south London, designed by Major Rhode Hawkins and completed in 1858. It was intended for the 'Education and Training of three hundred Orphan Daughters of Soldiers, Seamen and Marines who perished in the Russian War, and for those who hereafter may require like succour'. It was later converted into flats. From Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, And Its Places. The Southern Suburbs, Volume VI, by Edward Walford. [Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., London, Paris & New York, c1878]