This section contains images from the early days (1908-1912) of Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home & College later known as Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Hospital & College, produced by the Queen Alexandra League. 

Images taken / produced by other photographers of the former Hospital on Chawton Park Road can be found here Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital.

The Queen Alexandra League of Children to Help Poor Crippled Children, was founded in 1907, with the aim of encouraging people up and down the country to collect or raise funds to support those in need as per the title of the league. Numerous articles announcing the formation of the charity were published in newspapers countrywide during the last week of September 1907, including this one from the Daily Chronicle on the 27th September:

‘This league is to be formed to organise children who are well and also well-placed in life so that their efforts may be directed towards the advantage of the poor crippled children whom Sir William and Lady Treloar desire to provide for. The Crippled Children's Fund, to carry out the beneficent scheme on the realisation of which the Lord Mayor has set his heart, has reached to £50,000. But a further sum of £10,000 is needed, and the new league will devote itself to the task of crowning Sir William's project with complete success. It will be known as the "Queen Alexandra League of Children to Help Poor Crippled Children," with the Queen as president.’

It was not just limited to children, adults were also encouraged to support the League, by running fund raising events or direct donations. Other methods of fundraising included producing postcards of the patients, staff and grounds, that you can see in this section of the website: 

Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Home & College - Series 1

Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Hospital and College - Series 2

Lord Mayor Treloar Cripples Hospital and College - Series 4