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The National Refuges for Homeless and  Destitute Children (Shaftesbury Homes) moved into Fortescue House in London Road in 1878.  This building had been previously occupied by the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, which had relocated to new buildings in Hampton Road.  In 1938 history repeated itself when the Shaftesbury Home moved into the Hampton Road site after the closure of the Police Orphanage.  The original Fortescue House in London Road was demolished (replaced by the Regal Cinema, then Regal House office block), and the Hampton Road site took the name Fortescue House School.  The school closed in 1971, the Hampton Road buildings were demolished some time later and the site is now housing (Shaftesbury Way).  The Fortescue House School name was later transferred to a a third site, The Old Rectory in Hanworth, which today is part of the St Michael Steiner School.  So, the pin for this memorial is at London Road, the original Fortescue House and where the memorial was first dedicated.  Whether or not it moved with the school, or if it still survives, is not known.

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