2021年12月3日 · The website Former Children’s Home was given a description of life at Springwell House Open Air School , on the North side of Clapham Common, and the former pupil recalls they were sent there because of repeated bouts of bronchitis. They said: “in my case the fresh air worked - I never had bronchitis again.”

2022年3月30日 · Springwell House Open Air School on the North side of the Common housed classes of children who were taught in classrooms structured like bandstands, slightly raised and with 3 sides open to the elements. The children took naps outside and during the winter months frozen ink pots were replaced with chalk boards so lessons could continue.

The Springwell House Open Air School reputedly became the largest of such schools for tuberculous children in the capital. It operated until 1939 when, like most others, it closed on the outbreak of WW2. The children were evacuated to Winnersh, near Reading.

2025年1月16日 · SPRINGWELL HOUSE SCHOOL Description: Open Air Day School Clapham Common of Side, SW4. Held by: The London Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives Language: English

Springwell House (now No.80) Clapham Common North Side was built in 1819 for Roger Lee, Overseer of the Surrey Highways. Seen here with nurses at the windows when it was the Battersea and Clapham War Hospital Supply Depot during World War I. It became an open-air school for children with tuberculosis in 1919-39, and is now Parkgate House School.

Springwell House Open Air School . We have been sent the following description of this school: "Here is some information about another Open Air school, situated on the North Side of Clapham Common, London, SW11 "As I suffered repeatedly with bronchitis from when I was born, our doctor decided to send me to Springwell House Open Air School.

It has a distinctive side entrance portico and a coach house which was used as an open-air school for children suffering from tuberculosis between 1919 and 1939. Now a gradeII listed building it is Parkgate House School.

Schoolchildren taking their afternoon nap at Springwell House, London County Council (L.C.C.) School at Clapham Common, London, 9th November 1932. Springwell House was part of the open air school movement to provide year-round classes outdoors and the supposed health benefits of fresh air, to children either suffering from tuberculosis or ...

2024年11月16日 · Battersea: Springwell House, Clapham Common Council School for Physically Defective Children. Date: 1941-1942 Held by: The National Archives, Kew: Former reference in its original...

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