Old photo of children outside Painswick orphanage in 1930

THESE children are pictured outside the Painswick orphanage where they lived in 1930.
The Gyde Orphanage — "for Protestant orphans of the locality and blind or deaf and dumb children" — opened in 1919 with money bequeathed by Painswick resident Edwin Francis Gyde.
The home, which was intended to accommodate up to 70 children aged from 5 to 12 years, ran into financial difficulties not long after this photo was taken, and it was then taken over by the National Children's Home (NCH) in the early 1930s.
It closed in 1997 and was converted to apartments in 2001.
Peter Higginbotham of the childrenshomes.org.ukwebsite has carried out research into the history of the orphanage.

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