Swinton Industrial School, Lancashire,England

Swinton Industrial School
Manchester was one of the first Poor Law unions to set up a large separate institution specifically for pauper children. The building, erected in 1843-5 at Swinton, was designed by Richard Tattersall. It included at either end of the building two chapels one for Church of England and the other Roman Catholic. At the time of the 1881 census, the school had 799 inmates aged between 5 and 15, and 30 staff.

Swinton Home
A subsidiary to the Industrial School the declared purpose of the Swinton Home was to provide relief for mentally defective children and those with the after effects of “the sleepy sickness”. In the 1930’s on abolition of the Manchester Poor Law Union the Swinton sites were demolished and replaced by Swinton Town Hall.