“On a typical day we used to get up early and go into the washrooms, dress in the Foundling Hospital uniform, line up in twos, and [were] taken down to the dining hall for breakfast - and then ...

Tom was one of around 600 boys who lived in residential care at the Foundling Hospital school in Berkhamsted ... to undress and put on matching school uniforms – the boys’ military style ...

Life at the Foundling Hospital was very regimented with the boys dressed in the red and brown school uniform designed by the painter Hogarth in the 1700’s and the girls in brown dresses and white ...

as former foundling John Caldicott remembers. Now 83, he lived at the hospital from 1942 to 1952. He said: “We were brought up as if we were in the Georgian era, wearing uniforms and marching ...

The Foundling Hospital was set up in 1739 by philanthropist ... and they were put in uniforms that they would wear for the rest of their childhood in successive sizes. "It’s more reminiscent ...

These were for the sick, but the term 'hospital' was also used for institutions concerned with the poor or destitute, as in the case of the Foundling Hospital. The 'Age of Hogarth' (who was born ...

Kate Middleton was an art history major at at the University of St. Andrews — where she met Prince William Kate Middleton is going back to her artistic roots. The royal mom of three, who was an ...

Opened in 2004 on the site of the original Foundling Hospital, Bloomsbury’s Foundling Museum tells the story of England’s first hospital for abandoned children, founded by philanthropist and ...

During the 18 th century, mothers who left their babies at London’s Foundling Hospital would deposit something small, but unique, with the hospital to serve as an identifier in the event parents ...