Louise House is going to be open to the public as part of the Open House weekend on 18th and 19th September 2010. The draft entry from the guidebook follows. For more details, visit the Open-City website at: http://open-city.org.uk/

Dartmouth Road, Forest Hill SE23 1DL
Sat 10am-5pm. Regular tours, pre-book ONLY through Open House, see p15 for details. Last entry 4.30pm. Former Girls' Industrial Home in the domestic revival style, with Laundry Block to the rear. Foundation stone laid by Princess Louise, Queen Victoria's daughter. A monument to Victorian philanthropic responses to the problems of child poverty. Highly decorated externally, utilitarian interior retaining the original floor plan. Thomas W Aldwinckle 1890. Entry: ground, first floor, former laundry building to rear. NB Exhibition about Janusz Korcszak, the Polish/German/Jewish paediatrician, children's author and martyr whose visit to Louise House inspired him to devote his life to the Rights of the Child. Rail: Forest Hill; 197,176,122,185,356