London Photographs

This collection of loose photographs displays both the various teaching ministries based at Cavendish Square and the way in which the school and college had to adapt from the 1900s to 1950s: a period of war and social upheaval.

 The images include class photographs taken just a decade after the establishment of the school in 1890 to images taken during and just after the war years when both Cavendish Square and parish schools – where SHCJ sisters taught - were evacuated and the convent and school suffered severe bomb damage. Later images show women religious and lay women who were trained as teachers at Cavendish Square Training College during the early 1950s and the famous sculpture of the Madonna and Child designed by Sir Jacob Epstein and erected in 1959. 

Also found here is an image of the mothers and children who were part of the Holy Child Settlement in Poplar, on their way to their yearly picnic to Mayfield. The Settlement was a social welfare initiative established by the Old Girls (ex-pupils) of Mayfield.