This is the oldest surviving house on Edge Lane with the beginnings of Adelaide House stretching back to the reign of George IV. From its origins, and thanks to a visit from Elizabeth Fry the great prison reformer, to her cousin in Liverpool, the charity known as 'The Lancashire County Refuge for the Destitute' was founded in 1823. Details on the residents are recorded in the 1841 Census and there have been many changes since 1823 with the moving of the charity from Roscoe Street to its present site in Edge Lane. The grade II listed building at 115 Edge Lane was built in the 1830s and is recognisable by its brightly painted front door and red brick exterior and is actually a women's approved premises - one of only six facilities in the country. Adelaide House was named in memory of Miss Sarah Adelaide Clarke, a former prison warder from Walton Gaol who served as Matron of Adelaide House for over 50 years.
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The 'misdeeds and crimes' of many of the woman and young girls would today be thought seemingly unbelievable; such as being found on the streets for wearing no shoes and socks and so being deemed to have no parental care or control. Many were also committed to gaol for looking as though they may be 'intending' to commit an offence; which may have been something as harmless as 'larceny of an apple' – stealing food! As such they were institutionalised at Adelaide House where the staff were required to instill 'wholesome discipline' and 'character training', as well as care and support. Many of the women and young girls were moved on into Service. In 1920 the Church of England Temperance Society was called in to help clear and control spiralling debts and the charity was put into the control of the Board of Trustees. Following World War II, in 1948 it became an Approved Probation Hostel for girls with the Home Office taking over the responsibility for funding.
In the last twenty-five years there have been further changes, with an extension to the building to provide better-equipped facilities for the residents. The hostel accommodates and works with adult women from the age of eighteen. It is now accountable to the Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service (HMPPS) now part of the Ministry of Justice. Now as Female Approved Premises it is an award winning establishment, one of the eleven independently managed Approved Premises, (IAP), in the country - operationally indistinguishable from the National Probation Service (NPS) estate. Run by a small charity based in Liverpool, Liverpool Diocese Council for Social Aid, it is a national resource primarily providing enhanced supervision, structure and support for high risk of harm and/or complex need women in the Criminal Justices System either on release from prison as a condition of licence or as a residential requirement of a Community Order. It also has a small number of voluntary beds which women at risk are able to access including an Emergency Domestic Violence Victim bed.
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