Designs for the Orphan School, City Road, Islington, London: ground floor plan and unfinished entrance elevation

NOTES: The Royal British Female Orphan Asylum (later known as the Royal United Service Orphan Home for Girls) was founded in 1839 to house, care for and train orphan girls whose fathers were formerly members of the armed services.

NOTES: The building was taken over by the Salvation Army in 1881 who roofed over the courtyard. In 1975 it was bought by the borough of Hackney and was subsequently demolished except for the portico and colonnades and school buildings built behind it.

NOTES: This engraving was also used in the Annual Report of the Alexandra Orphanage for Infants, 1867.

SOURCE: Building News, vol. 38, 1880 Jan. 23, p. 109