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Soldier's Daughters Home from the 'Illustrated London News', June 19, 1858

The Royal School, Hampstead was founded in 1855 as the Soldiers' Infant Home before becoming the Royal Soldiers' Daughters' School on this site in 1867. It was established 'to nurse, board, clothe and educate the female children, orphans or not, of soldiers in Her Majesty's Army killed in the Crimean War'.

The Daughter's School, as described in 1902: 'At the back a large extent of grass playground stretched out westward, and at the end of this there was a grove of trees. On one side of the grass is a large playroom built in 1880 by means of an opportune legacy, and on the other a covered cloister which led to the school, standing detached from the house at the other end of the playground. An old pier burdened with a mass of ivy stood up in the centre, the only remnant of this part of old Vane House. A portion of the ground was profitably sold for the frontage to Fitz John's Avenue.'

The school site is now used as a senior campus of North Bridge House School.


Attribution: The Illustrated London News

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