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St Mary's Home

Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990

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Photo:St Mary's Home for female penitents , Wykeham Terrace, 1930s: numbers 1-5 and 8-11 Wykeham Terrace housed part of what was later to become St Mary's Home for female penitents, founded for the reformation of prostitutes by Reverend George Wagner, nephew of Henry Wagner, vicar of Brighton.

St Mary's Home for female penitents , Wykeham Terrace, 1930s: numbers 1-5 and 8-11 Wykeham Terrace housed part of what was later to become St Mary's Home for female penitents, founded for the reformation of prostitutes by Reverend George Wagner, nephew of Henry Wagner, vicar of Brighton.

Image reproduced with kind permission from Brighton and Hove in Pictures by Brighton and Hove City Council

This page was added on 04/11/2007.

Comments about this page

The suggestion is that this picture was taken in the 1930s. I may be wrong, but weren't the white bands only painted on the trees during the war, making the photo a decade later at least?

By Roy Grant (03/04/2011)