St George's House,
Northern Police Orphanage. 1898-1956  Harrogate, Yorkshire, England.

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St George's Buildings  View showing all of the main buidings visible from the front.                          


               
  The main entrance foyer of the original
  structure  showing Miss Knocker's Study on the
  left hand side and Miss Adam's office to the
  right hand side.

 

 

Building     1                              2                               3                    4                5    6
 

1 South Wing Extension:Food Store/Pantries/ Staff Bedrooms/Bathrooms//Sewing Room/ Sick Wing located to rear of this building
2 Original Building:           Foyer/Miss Knocker Study/Dining Room/Day Cloak Room/Maids Dining Room/Pantry/Miss Adams   
                                               Office/Assembly-Music-Religious Instruction Room/Management & Staff Bedrooms/Girls’ Dormitories   
                                Nursery/Boys’ Dormitories/Girls’ Playroom/Washroom

3 Princess Mary Wing:Boys’ Common Room/Study/Boot Room/Washrooms/Boys’ Dormitories/Bathrooms/Master's accommodation
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Gymnasium Wing:         Gymnasium/Stage/Apparatus Room/Sewing Room/Wash Rooms/Toilet/Boot Room.

5 Shower Block

6 Greenhouse            (standing separately)

7 Gurney Wing:                located behind the original building (not visible on Photo) Girls’ Playroom & Dormitories/ Boys’ Dormitories

8 Gardener’s House:       located behind Greenhouse (not visible on Photo)

Since the opening of St George's House a sanatorium,  gardener's cottage and a large gymnasium was added to the original building, a portion of which  in 1914, of necessity was rebuilt and enlarged, with a laundry added.
In 1928-29 a wing for the boys,comprising two dormitories, a study common room, bedrooms for the staff, was inserted between the house and the gymnasium, while in 1930-31 a wing for the girls, called the 'Gurney Wing', was added to the back of the house overlooking Harlow Moor Road. This wing consists of a large playroom for the girls, a dormitory above for little girls and one above that for the little boys.
The girls' downstairs washroom was also included in the wing,  modernised and increased in size.

               
     
Princess Mary, the then Princess Royal and Patron of             Major Fawkes, Princess Mary, her husband Viscount
      St George's arriving at St George's with Major Fawkes            Lascelles aka Lord Harewood, Sir William Ingilby and Lady
      to officiate at the opening of the new Boys Wing.                 Ingilby of Ripley Castle, Yorkshire.  

 
                 
     
Princess Mary with Major Fawkes coming down the red            Some of the visitors and police, present during the visit !
      carpeted front steps of St George's, followed by
      Sir William Ingilby and Viscount Lascelles

    

                                                                                                  
                                                                                                   Deus vult

 

 

 

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