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Mannings Children's Home, Southfield, St. Elizabeth
Front view of the Mannings Boys' Home in Southfield, St. Elizabeth.
Cart wheels
"Cart wheels anyone? Youngsters on the Summer Youth Programme at Fort Clarence Beach abandon themselves to fun and gaiety. Turning cart wheels is just another of the activities they find time to do so. Here boys from the Olivier Place of Safety "do…
Maxfield Park Children's Home
"Fine Gesture: Maxfield Park Children's Home Matron, Mrs. O'Conner Johnson, receiving a cheque for $200 from Flour Mills and Allied Industry Worker's Chief Delegate, Henry Brown, yesterday afternoon. The donation came from the workers' back pay,…
Filthy conditions outside the St. Patrick place of safety in Rae Town
"Is this what we want for our kids in the international year of the child? The 38 boys being housed at the St. Patrick's Place of Safety in Rae Town have to suffer daily from the stench, mosquito bites and flies are bred by this stagnant pool that…
Lyndale Home for Girls
View of the Lyndale Home for Girls, in Highgate, St. Mary.
Recreation Centre Swift-Purcell Home for Boys, Highgate, St. Mary
View of a section of the Swift-Purcell Boys' Home located in Highgate, St. Mary.
Trade Centre, Swift Purcell Home for Boys - Highgate, St. Mary
One of the buildings located on the Swift Purcell Home for Boys in Highgate, St. Mary.
Swift Purcell Home for Boys - Highgate
View of the Swift Purcell Home for orphaned boys, located in Highgate, St. Mary and established in the early 1900s by Mama Swift and Mr. A. Purcell of the Quakers/Society of Friends.
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Jasper Hall
Photograph of the Jasper Hall building, built in 1756 on High Holborn Street, Kingston. It was named for Colonel Jasper Hall, speaker of the House of…