Alexandra Orphanage
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Alexandra Orphanage for Infants, Hornsey Rise A bazaar is being held in the Royal Horticultural Gardens, now in full beauty, in aid of the Alexandra Orphanage for Infants, Hornsey Rise, and will remain open until this Saturday evening. In our volume for 1868 we gave a view and plan of the buildings intended to be erected by the charity. In the space of four years, freehold land has been purchased at the cost of £3,367-17s-3d Eight cottages have been erected on it at the cost of (with the lodge) £5,100; and the central building is completed at the cost of £6,000; besides which the committee have had to provide sewers, make a portion of the road, and otherwise do a great deal of ground work, rendered necessary by the orphanage being on the side of a hill. The schools have yet to be built. At the present time there are 100 infants under the care of the charity. It may be worth while one of these days to inquire if some cheaper course could not have been adopted.
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