Children's Homes in Rotherham 1939

[Beavances]

Thankyou MollyC - the explanation you have given makes sense. I remember my own mum being very reluctant to go into a particular hospital because its name was still, in her mind, connected to the workhouse she had remembered as a child. It had been transformed inside but from the outside still looked grim.
I can see now that by 1939 the childnren's home in Rotherham may well have been very dispersed from the list I had originally found which showed homes in 1933.