Orphanage in Grays: A memory of Grays

Orphanage In Grays

A Memory of Grays.

Can anyone tell me about an orphanage in Grays during WW1? My mother was there in 1914 and I can't find any records of it except at the archives and it just listed children's names but no address. I know it was in Grays but not where when I travelled to the UK. That's all I could find.
Esmeralda, Canada

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Added 09 January 2013

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I realise this is an old post so you've probably already found the information you were looking for, but for the benefit of anyone else who may be interested the following link has some good information:
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Whitechapel/#Homes

As the article says, there were actually three homes, only two of these are still in existence. The largest of the three homes "Whitehall Lodge" was levelled some 15 years ago to make way for a new housing development (High View Gardens). The other two are now domestic residences, and can be seen on Google street view:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4778649,0.3285292,3a,43.9y,358.64h,87.05t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s3lm_W1Pe8ZPellXQkM1wzg!2e0

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.4794407,0.3308052,3a,37.5y,314.8h,92.18t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1scx6GvKfwTDuCFjItr23YTw!2e0

In the first link to the house in Clarence Road you can see where the original large single entrance has been split into two. Other than that they look like ordinary large houses.

Hope this is of interest.

By gords on Tue Dec 23rd 2014, at 10:14 am

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