St.Helena's Home
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St.Helena's Home
Image: © Graham Weeks Taken: 9 Apr 2004
St Helena's Home, a women's reformatory run by an Anglican religious order, the Wantage-based Sisters of St Mary the Virgin built the house in 1896. It remained in the care of the Wantage sisters until around 1940, when it was requisitioned by Middlesex County Council for use as a girls' remand centre. In 1965 the main building reverted to the Sisters, who used it as a base for religious retreats. The Sisters finally left in 1980 and for over twenty years it housed the educational hostel of the Chinese Embassy. Sold to developers, then to a housing trust, it was demolished in 2011.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.515336
Longitude
-0.325629