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Description: | J. Lavery
image: The interior of a room lined with children's cots, occupied by very young children and babies. A group of nurses
tend the babies in the background. A play-pen filled with toddlers stands in the foreground.
Lady Henry - Julia - was the wife of Sir Charles Solomon Henry, Liberal MP for Wellington in Shropshire. Lady Henry
probably funded some of the costs for the building and running of the nursery herself. The Ministry of Munitions introduced a subsidy from
1917 (when they would pay 75% of the construction cost of new nurseries and a payment of 7d per day per child placed there). The Nursery
opened in May 1917 and closed March 1920 when Lady Henry presented it to to the London County Council in memory of her only son who was
killed during the War.
Access | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | British Home Front 1914-1918 interior women / womens work UK Home Front Children First World War civilian effort | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Lavery, John (Sir) (RA) (RSA) | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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