page_title: Ayahs' Home
hierarchical_section_title: Ayahs' Home
caption_attribution_description: English: Ayahs' Home, Hackney
context_page_description: The Ayahs' Home, London, provided accommodation for Indian ayahs and Chinese amahs at the turn of the 20th century who were "ill-treated, dismissed from service or simply abandoned" with no return passage to their home country. The Home also operated like an employment exchange to help ayahs find placements with families returning to India. It was the only institution of its type in Britain with a named building.
context_section_description: The Ayahs' Home, London, provided accommodation for Indian ayahs and Chinese amahs (nannies) at the turn of the 20th century who were "ill-treated, dismissed from service or simply abandoned" with no return passage to their home country. The Home also operated like an employment exchange to help ayahs find placements with families returning to India. It was the only institution of its type in Britain with a named building.
caption: "In the Ayahs' Home (Hackney)" from George R. Sims's Living London (1901)[1]
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