John Groom's Crippleage & Flower Girls' Mission

Group portrait of some of the inmates of John Groom's Crippleage & Flower Girls' Mission, London E C. Most girls stand or sit, whilst a couple sit in their wheelchairs. The charity came from preacher John Groom's concern for ill and disabled girls selling flowers in Farringdon Market, London. In its form at the time of the postcard, John Groom had hired houses in Sekforde Street in London from where disadvantaged girls learned to make artificial flowers in order to earn their own living. The National Archives holds records of the charity: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=074-lma4305&cid=0#0