LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN A COUNTRY TOWN: EVERYDAY LIFE IN WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK, 1944 - A group of children, mostly girls, including several in Girl Guide uniform, walk in the sunshine past 'Dryleaze', a children's home run by Gloucestershire County Council in Wotton-under-Edge. The original caption states that it is run by the Public Assistance Committee of the Council "on 'homelike' lines" and "its children take part in all the normal activities of the normal child's town life, are trained to earn their livings when they leave school. The girls stay on longer than the bo
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN A COUNTRY TOWN: EVERYDAY LIFE IN WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND, UK, 1944 - A group of children, mostly girls, including several in Girl Guide uniform, walk in the sunshine past 'Dryleaze', a children's home run by Gloucestershire County Council in Wotton-under-Edge. The original caption states that it is run by the Public Assistance Committee of the Council "on 'homelike' lines" and "its children take part in all the normal activities of the normal child's town life, are trained to earn their livings when they leave school. The girls stay on longer than the boys, look upon it as their home, come back for week-ends, holidays after work"
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