Administrative Biographical History
1869 - NCH founded by Rev Thomas B Stephenson, a young Methodist Minister, when he converted a disused stable into a home for orphans and abandoned children in Lambeth, London
1871 - The Lambeth home is given approval by the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and moves Bonner Road.
1872 - A second home is opened in Edgworth, Lancashire - a rural location
1873 - The Home's emigration scheme begins with the departure of the first party of children to Canada. Reception branch in Hamilton, Ontario is opened
1875 - The Home takes on the management of an Industrial School at Milton, Gravesend
1878 - Training of women in child care begins - the 'Sisterhood' is established
1880 - The Home takes over the management of a children's refuge in Ramsey on the Isle of Man
1882 - Princess Alice Orphanage opens in Birmingham. The Donor stipulates that home must be for orphans only. The Children's Home becomes the Children's Home and Orphanage
1887 - Alverstoke in Hampshire opens as a convalescent home for children
1888 - First Conference (later called Convocation) of Home workers takes place
1891 - Women becoming sisters of the Children take part in a Public Recognition Service as a form of ordination for the first time
1892 - The League of Children's Friends established? NCH begins placing-out children for adoption
1894 - Canadian government investigates the work of the Home in Canada
1898 - The Milton Industrial School is relocated to Farnborough
1899 - Young Leaguer's Union established in order to encourage involvement of young people with fund-raising
1900 - Rev T B Stephenson retires and Arthur E Gregory takes his place as principal of the Children's Home
1903 - New branch opens in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire to provice a home for 'delicate and affected children'. New branch opens at Frodsham in Cheshire
1906 - New Branch at Bramhope, near Leeds
1907 - The Home now becomes known as the National Children's Home and Orphanage
1908 - Houses rented temporarily in Leigh-on-Sea in order to relieve the pressure of numbers in other branches
1909 - Ownership of the Laleham orphannage in Oxted transfers to NCH
1910 - Sanatorium and new branch at Harpenden in Hertfordshire opens, to provide for children with TB. NCH takes over the management of home in Newport Road, Cardiff, previously run by the Ladies Association for the Care of Young Girls
1912 - A E Gregory dies suddenlby and is replaces as principal by Rev William Hodson Smith. Rev T B Stephenson dies after a long illness
1913 - The Headquarters of NCH are moved from Bonner Road to Harpenden and the administrative section is moved to temporary accommodation in City Road. New branch opens at Doddington in Kent
1916 - New branch opens at Sheringham in Norfolk
1917 - New branch opens at Newquay in Cornwall. New branch, known as Headlands, opens at Penarth, South Glamorgan, providing training for Naval Careers. New branch opens in New Barnet
1918 - NCH provides a home for 97 Serbian refugees at the newly opened branch in Faversham, Kent. Staff rest home opens in Barmouth, Wales
1919 - New branch opens at Whitby, North Yorkshire
1920 - New branches open in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire and Congleton, Cheshire
1921 - New branch opens in Sutton-on-Sea, Lincolnshire
1921 - New branch ate Ebley, Gloucestershire. NCH takes over management of the Birkdale Orphanage and Training Home for Girls known as Westdene in Southport
1923 - New branch opens at Ribblesdale, Lancashire
1925 - The central offices of NCH move from City Road to Highbury
1929 - New branch, known as the Watson Home opens in Sutton Coldfield and becomes the first residential nursey branch
1933 - NCH branch at Newport Road, Cardiff transferred to Penarth, close to Headlands. This branch is known as Seaview. NCH takes on the administration of the Gyde House Orphannage in Painswick, Gloucestershire. Rev Hodson Smith retires and is replaced by Rev John H Litten as principal. First course for the Sisters' Training School begins
1934 - The Hamilton branch of NCH is closed. NCH begins a seven year Development Plan. NCH takes on the administration of the Primitive Methodist Homes at Alresford and Harrogate, as a result of the Union of the Methodist churches
1935 - Stephenson Hall is opened in London order to train child care workers and Sisters. New branch, known as Springfield, opens in Nottingham
1937 - New branch open at Malmesbury
1939 - NCH accommodates Austrian refugees through its Riversmead scheme. All children in branches located in unsafe areas evacuated to other branches
1941 - Approved Schools open in Coomb, Carmarthenshire (for boys) and Seaton, Devon (for girls)
1942 - NCH publishes its Report on Reconstruction for post-war development. Hostel for Riversmead boys opens in Blackburn. New branch opens in St Anne's on Sea, Lancashire
1943 - New branch open in Bristol and Brackley
1946 - Princess Alice College is opened in Birmingham in order to privide training for child care workers and Sisters. New branch, known as Clarendon open in Cardiff. NCH is registered as Adoption Society
1947 - New branches open in Woking (Ashwood) and Nottingham (Southbank)
1948 - NCH takes on administration of the Orphan House for Girls in Swansea, after the home had run inot financial trouble as a result of the Children's Act 1948
1949 - Training Colleges are recognised by Home Office to provide Certificate in Child Care 1950 - NCH initiates project to emigrate children to Austrailia. New branch in Horsham, Sussex. Rev John Litten retires and is replaced by Rev John W Waterhouse as principal
1951 - The Oxted branch moved to a new location at Limpsfield, Surrey
1953 - NCH takes over administration of Orphan Home in St Leaonard's-on-Sea, Sussex and relocates Malmsbury branch there
1955 - First Scottish branch open in Glasgow (Rutherglen)
1958 - A new branch is opened in Farnham and a hostel for older children at Enfield
1959 - Children from Penarth (Seaview) relocated to new branch at Dinas Powys in South Glamorgan
1960 - The two training Colleges, Stephenson Hall and Princess Alice College are merged at Stephenson Hall
1965 - Another branch opens in Southport, known as Birkdale
1966 - Second Scottish branch opens in Pitlochry
1967 - New branches open in Edgbaston, Birmingham; Manchester; Hildenborough, Kent and Elmstead Woods, Kent
1968 - The organisation of NCH is regionalised. New branches open in Wolverhampton, Lincoln, Ealing and Leamington Spa
1969 - NCH celebrates its centenary. New branch opens in Bourneville, Birmingham. NCH begins its work in the Caribbean. Rev J Waterhouse is replaced as principal by Rev Gordon E Barritt
1975 - New branch opens in East Grinstead
1976 - NCH takes over administration of children's home in Enfield
1977 - New branches open in Whitechapel, London and Salford, Manchester
1978 - New branch opens in Dunstable
1979 - New branch opens in Leicester
1980 - New branches open in Hull and Streatham, London 1986 - Rev Gordon Barritt retires and is replaced by Rev Michael Newman as principal 1990 - Rev Michael Newman retires and is replaced by tom White, the first non-ordained principal 1994 - NCH is renamed NCH Action for Children. Continued Please click on link http://www.philipastrangechild.com/page_1170414203031.html 
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