The Liverpool Industrial Schools, at Kirkdale, [near Liverpool], 1850. 'It was the juvenile pauperism of Liverpool was so largely on the increase as to be incapable of being accommodated in the present [the institution] contains 1123 children, of whom 640 are boys, and 483 experiment has been highly favourable in extending education among the destitute children of the trades which the boys are taught are tailoring, shoemaking, and carpentering. The girls are instructed in knitting, needlework, washing, ironing, mangling, cooking, and general


The Liverpool Industrial Schools, at Kirkdale, [near Liverpool], 1850. 'It was the juvenile pauperism of Liverpool was so largely on the increase as to be incapable of being accommodated in the present [the institution] contains 1123 children, of whom 640 are boys, and 483 experiment has been highly favourable in extending education among the destitute children of the trades which the boys are taught are tailoring, shoemaking, and carpentering. The girls are instructed in knitting, needlework, washing, ironing, mangling, cooking, and general household work, to qualify them for domestic a model of order and schools offer so many advantages to poor children, that it has become an object of ambition among many people, who are not paupers, to get their children introduced into it'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.


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