Hanford Children's Home

Description:Amongst documents relating to Hanford Children's Home is the plan featured above showing the layout of the rooms on the ground floor of the building.

The double doors at the front of the Home opened onto a hallway with adjoining corridors leading to either wing of the building.

The Children's Home was divided into three main sections. The left wing housed the girls, whilst the boys inhabited the right side of the building. The plan suggests that the two sides of the school functioned almost entirely separately, except for at meal times when the children ate together. A large Dining Hall was situated in the middle of the building separating these two wings. The Dining Hall had an adjoinig kitchen and scullery for the provision of food for the children.

The Entrance Hall led to a Committee Room and Waiting Room. The front room of the left wing which housed the girls formed the Matron's Room, whilst the Master's room was situated in the same position on the right wing where the boys lived.

Corridors led off to store rooms on either side of the building. Both the girls on the left and the boys on the right had separate store closets, bathrooms and lavatories attached to their separate school rooms. The Home also had a laundry and washroom which appears to have served the whole building.