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Exeter Children's Home

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Situated on Heavitree Road, Exeter and now known as Atlas House

1913 Foundation stone laid by F. G. Towill. It will provide accommodation for 30 girls and 44 boys with four attendants bedrooms. Also two day rooms, three sitting rooms, a dining hall, Two bath-rooms with four baths etc. Builders are Soper and Ayres and design is by R. M. Challice.[1]

1923 Corporation Home for Children. (Francis henry Drake, Supt.).[2]

1935 No 77 Heavitree Road. Exeter Corporation Public Assistance Home for Children (William George Gittins, supt).[3]

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Sources of Information

  1. ↑ Exeter and Plymouth Gazette - Thursday 16 January 1913
  2. ↑ 1923 Exeter Directroy
  3. ↑ 1935 Exeter Directory
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