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.
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- Orphanages in the United Kingdom
- Defunct schools in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
- 1870 establishments in England
- 1937 disestablishments in England
- History of the Metropolitan Police
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