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The Messenger House Trust Archive
Catalogue reference: MESSENGER
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This record is about the The Messenger House Trust Archive dating from 1977 - 1999.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MESSENGER
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Title (The name of the record)
- The Messenger House Trust Archive
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1977 - 1999
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers of Messenger House Trust.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- Planned Environment Therapy Archive and Special Collections including the National Childcare Library
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- SA/MHT
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Language (The language of the record)
- ENG
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Messenger House Trust
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- Approx. 13 boxes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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MIXED
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Physical condition (Aspects of the physical condition of the record that may affect or limit its use)
- Paper
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Messenger House Trust was founded by Josephine Lomax-Simpson in 1970. Lomax-Simpson used money she had inherited from her mother to purchase a property on Malcolm Road, Wimbledon, which became the first of nine houses established between 1970 and 1981 to provide accommodation for single mothers and their babies, and homeless young men. She called the house the ?Messenger House? in memory of her mother, and created the Messenger House Trust. In 1970 the aims of the charity were to ?promote the physical, moral and mental welfare of mothers (married or unmarried) and their children who were in need of resettlement or rehabilitation?, and also to ?care for deprived children and young persons in need?.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/44c99d3c-4692-40af-8f00-4fc2508e57d0/
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The Messenger House Trust Archive