Watford: Former London Orphan Asylum
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Watford: Former London Orphan Asylum
Image: © Nigel Cox Taken: 3 Apr 2010
The orphanage was built between 1869 and 1871, replacing the former building in Clapton in East London after an outbreak of typhoid fever there in 1865. The orphanage was built at a cost of about £63,000, originally housing 450 children, but increasing eventually to 600 (400 boys and 200 girls). The London Orphan Asylum charity was founded in a small house in East London in 1813 by Dr Andrew Reed, and moved to the Clapton site in 1837. It subsequently incorporated the Royal British Orphan School. At the time of its centenary in 1913 it was estimated that 7,200 children had passed through its doors. In commemoration of its founder it became Reed's School, Watford, in 1939, at which time it had 260 boys and 190 girls on its roll. The whole orphanage was converted into residential accommodation in the 1980s as the Reed's Estate.
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