Home of Good Hope in Gloucester (General)
hi
I am doing some family history, looking back to my dads grand mother on the 1891 census she is 6 in the 1901 census she disappears from the family house and turns up at the "home of good hope" in gloucester. My question is what was this home, the address is listed as "home of good hope gloucester" and that the ecclesiastical parish is St Mary de lode. Can some throw some light on it. I am guessing that it might be a home for young girls pregnant.
Thank you
ian
Home of Hope, Great Western Rd,off London Road, Gloucester
by slowhands 
, proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Friday, January 15, 2010, 12:57 (5506 days ago) @ twinkleredstar
Home of hope movement
"The majority of women who passed through their doors were servants 'who had been taken advantage of', to use the phrase current at the time"
A temporary refuge opened by 1870 was replaced in 1873 by a home built by Quakers led by Eliza Sessions, where girls were employed in domestic service and laundry work. Known as the Home of Hope, it stood east of the workhouse near London Road. (fn. 46)
From: 'Gloucester, 1835-1985: Social and cultural life', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4: The City of Gloucester (1988), pp. 209-221. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42301 Date accessed: 15 January 2010.
new Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, begun in the early 1960s. The first departments were opened in 1964 and others in succeeding years, including in 1975 the main feature of the new hospital, a tower block of 11 storeys. (fn. 43) Older buildings in the area, including the former Home of Hope, (fn. 44) continued in use in 1981 when the hospital had 618 beds, excluding those in the maternity hospital. (fn. 45)
From: 'Gloucester: Hospitals', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 4: The City of Gloucester (1988), pp. 269-275. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42309 Date accessed: 15 January 2010.
Home of Hope was at 68 Great Western Way.
The name of the Home lives on in the new building housing the "clinic" at
Hope House SARC
Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
Great Western Road
Gloucester
GL1 3NN
At Glos Archives :-
[no title] D4700/6 1935
3
Contents:
Correspondence about Miss Lewis's appointment as Assistant Matron of the Home of Hope, Great Western Road, Gloucester
Includes illustrated brochure with photograph of the exterior of the Home, 1932
[no title] D4453/3/7 1892-1958
5 bdls.
Contents:
Estate of Ada Dutton (daughter of James Clutterbuck)
Miscellaneous estate papers, accounts, vouchers, solicitor's and estate agent's correspondence, insurance policies, executors' papers and vouchers (mainly rentals), 1950-1958
Including 65th annual report of Gloucester Home of Hope (1937-8), with covering letter from President, Miss Edith Sessions
[no title] D2299/6633 1939
Contents:
Home of Hope, Great Western Rd., Gloucester, Valuation, report; letter
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