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Some homes for the deaf found extra – probably modest – income from work that they did. The back of this photo (possbly circa 1910) tells us that this was the (female) Deaf and Dumb home at Bath. This Home for Deaf Women at 9 and 10 Walcot Parade, Bath, was founded by a clergyman’s daughter in 1868, then later taken over by the NID in 1932 and moved to ‘Poolemead’ at Twerton-on-Avon, near Bath, in 1933. Action on Hearing Loss still runs homes there.  Click onto the image for a larger size.