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E. was disabled. She suffered from infantile paralysis and it had affected her right leg. She had not been sent to school because of her disability and the clergyman making the application to the Waifs and Strays' Society felt that this should be remedied. He also felt that in one of the Society's Homes she would have the opportunity, in due course, of learning a trade by which she could support herself. E. was admitted to St Nicholas Home, Byfleet on 4 December 1901 On 25 July 1908 the Home was transferred to Pyrford, near Woking. Much of the correspondence on the file concerns the search for an apprenticeship for E. She was good with her needle and it was thought desirable that she should be apprenticed to a dressmaker or milliner. In 1910 the Campden Charities undertook the cost of apprenticing E. and a situation was found for her in a shop in Kensington High Street. E. started her apprenticeship in early April 1910. In May 1910, a letter was received by the Society, giving details of her progress. This is the final item on the file. The writer states "I am afraid, poor girl, she won't stand shop life. She has had two falls, one on the shop stairs, the other in the street, and been away from Pettits a week each time." |
