1886 – Working Boy’s Home, Deritend, Birmingham

Designed for for the Rev. A. Clifton Mogg,and published in The Architect, December 30th 1887. Described in 1912 “The Birmingham Working Boys’ Home, Gordon hall, 20 High street, Deritend, was founded by Major Alfred V. Fordyce, 3 July, 1880, at Princess road. The purposes of the institution are to provide a home for friendless and homeless buys from 13 to 17, and give them a certain amount of education and industrial training ; boys over 16, who are in situations, but have no home or friends, are also admitted. The resident boys are chiefly occupied in the factories of the town”