Original 1920's era postcard of Wood Street Mission Camp, dormitory at the seaside resort of Blackpool, showing rows of neatly made up beds or 'cots' as they were known here. Each neat bed had a chair as a bedside table. This holiday camp offered seaside holidays for working class children local to the Mission at Dean's Gate, Manchester, There are plaques above beds with the name of the person who "endowed the cot". This holiday camp built 1922. Blackpool, Lancashire, England,
Established in 1869 by Alfred Alsop, Wood Street Mission was born in a climate of widespread poverty and destitution. During the late 19th century, the mission worked in the slums of Deansgate, Manchester, running a soup kitchen, a rescue society and home for neglected boys, and a night shelter for the homeless. Between 1896 and 1907, Wood Street Mission rebuilt and enlarged its premises responding to increasing need in Manchester and Salford .During the early 20th century, Wood Street continued with many welfare activities, including the soup kitchen and night shelter. In the 1880s, Wood Street Mission started taking local children to Southport for a day at the seaside.[5] This activity proved so popular that a seaside camp was built which provided accommodation for around 120 children. The seaside camp was operational for about 30 years and closed in 1919. At the end of the First World War, Wood Street decided to replace this seaside camp with a holiday home in Blackpool.[1] The holiday home, based at Squires Gate opened in 1922. This is one of the dormitories.
Size: 6910px × 4600px
Location: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Photo credit: © ThislifeThen / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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