Hi all, I'm trying to find some information about this photograph, but a bit of background to the pic first.In the picture (circled from left to right) is my grand uncle Italo Zanchi, my grandfather Guilo Alfredo Camillo Zanchi and my other grand uncle William Zanchi. On the 25th April 1921 their mother Daisy Rosina Zanchi (nee Lee) died of TB, they were living in 20, Cotlands Road, Bournemouth at the time along with their father Antonio Zanchi. After her death the boys were put into, we think an orphanage, and we can only assume that this is a photo of that orphanage. We think that the institution was probably catholic (statue of the Virgin Mary at back of photo and due to the Italian background of the boys father Antonio) and is dated early 1920's.Now I can't find any catholic institutions in the Bournemouth area, where the boys wore sailors uniforms, but I did come across some photographs of boys in an orphanage with similar uniforms and also that the orphanage was run by nuns and called the St Vincent's Orphanage for boys in Torquay, Devon. I know my grandfather worked in Plymouth as a chef in later years and wondered whether this photo could well be of the orphanage in Torquay. Any help on this matter would be very much appreciated.
Regards, David
