Ayahs' Home

Ayahs' Home
PurposeHome for abandoned or destitute ayahs
Location
  • 4 King Edward Road, Hackney, London
AffiliationsLondon City Mission
"In the Ayahs' Home (Hackney)" from George R. Sims's Living London (1901)[1]
Ayahs' Home, 26 King Edward Road, Hackney, c. 1900[2]
Former locations of the Ayahs' Home (arrowed) at King Edward's Road, Hackney, on a 1948 map[3]

The Ayahs' Home, London, provided accommodation for Indian ayahs and Chinese amahs (nannies) at the turn of the 20th century who were "ill-treated, dismissed from service or simply abandoned" with no return passage to their home country.[4] The Home also operated like an employment exchange to help ayahs find placements with families returning to India. It was the only institution of its type in Britain with a named building.

  1. ^ Sims, George R. (1901) Living London.
  2. ^ London City Mission, 1900.
  3. ^ 1948 Ordnance Survey map, Digimap, 8 March 2018. (subscription required)
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