Josephine
Butler
Memorial
House -
Alexandra Drive
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04 February 1999 The Josephine Butler Memorial House, Liverpool, affiliated to the Anglican Archbishops' Advisory Board for Preventive and Rescue Work, was set up in 1920 as a training house for Social Purity work. It took its inspiration from Josephine Butler's vision of the need for, and lack of, women workers in abolitionist work. It offered one year social work courses, or the two year full Social Science course of the University of Liverpool. Continuous financial struggles and the gradual evolution of professional social services made the House (later Josephine Butler College) unviable. The last students finished their courses in 1972. The training centre was in several premises around the city but finished life at 34 Alexandra Drive, Toxteth Park. The house is now a elderly persons nursing home I believe. |
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Photograph courtesy and copyright © Paul Young, with thanks |
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