Three rare programmes with cover designs by Hassall.

315 x 255 mm

1. 4 page programme by Hassall for a Boxing competition for the ‘Aid of the funds of the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage’.

   Feb 25 1916.

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2. 4 page programme ‘Second Annual Boxing Competition in aid of the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage, National Sporting Club, Mar 2 1917. Front cover illustration of a boxer squaring up to a skeleton. Has the original tear-off programme of events.

   WITH

3. 4 page programme for the ‘Third Annual Boxing Competition: in aid of the funds of the Police Orphanage’ at the National Sporting Club, April 5 1918. Has the original tear-off programme of events.

The Metropolitan Police Orphanage was established in January, 1870 and opened in October, 1870. In 1871 it was extended to include the City of London Police. In 1874 they moved to Wellesley House, Twickenham.
2,807 boys and girls passed through the Metropolitan and City Police Orphanage before it closed in 1937, and the Metropolitan and City Police Orphans Fund came into being. It is still a fund raising charity see: https://www.met-cityorphans.org.uk/