barnardo

Updated: May 24, 2025

This branch of the Men's Social Work of the Salvation Army is a home for poor and destitute boys. The house, which once belonged to the late Dr. Barnardo, has been recently hired on a short lease. One of the features of the Army work is the reclamation of lads, of whom about 2,400 have passed through its hands in London during the course of the last eight years.

Henry Rider Haggard - Regeneration

Another was a grocer by profession, all of whose savings were stolen, after which he took to drink. He had been three months in the works, and at the time of my visit was earning 6s. a week with food and lodging. Another had been a Barnardo boy, who came from Canada as a ship's steward, and could find nothing to do in England.

Henry Rider Haggard - Regeneration