Bradstock Lockett Hospital Home and School of Recovery

Building work commenced in 1899. The building was finished by the end of 1901 and officially opened on 22 July 1902 by Viscount Cross. The Home originally took children from the north of England but from 1917 it began to take children from all over the country, when the Board of Education officially recognised the Home as a boarding school under the terms of the Elementary Education Act (1899).

Around 1918 the Home opened the Bradstock Lockett Special School as part of Education Board-provided education, as well as orthopaedic care. In 1968 the Home was closed as a centre for children with disabilities and the building became Bradstock Lockett Nursery.

The Children’s Society Archive contains correspondence between The Society and C O Ellison and Son, architects, regarding the building of the home, 1898-1902 and alteration works in 1909.

- Estimates from contractors for the building of the home, 1900.
- Elevation of a proposed doorway at the home, drawn by W Stanley Ellison, architect, 1909.
- Estimates from contractors for alterations at the home, 1909.