I don't know whether the following will be of any help to you - In June 1908 my uncle joined the Lancashire (Navy League) Sea Training Home in Wallasey (which is next door to Birkenhead). This was, in effect an orphanage. He was discharged from the Navy League about October 1911? His discharge certificate notes that he was a bandsman and played the B flat tenor horn. Page 186 of "The Rise and Progress of Wallasey" E.C.Woods & F.C.Brown has the following para:- "Adjoining Wallasey Grammar School in Withens Lane stood Clifton Hall, at one time the home of Peter Wright, Esq., Clerk of the Peace. Later it was occupied by Captain John Herron until his death on 5th May, 1897................The house was then converted into the Navy League's Lancashire Sea-training Home for boys. It was the first sea-school on land supported by public funds, and was originally for poor homeless boys between the ages of thirteen and sixteen years. In July 1905, H.M. King Edward VII inspected the boys and 'passed high encomiums on their smartness and worth' and in July 1906 the lads formed a guard of honour to H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught at Liverpool. In July 1908 a new building called "The Cheshire House" was to have been opened by H.R.H. Princess Louise but the ceremony was unavoidably postponed. The Navy League evacuated the school during World War II; it was vacant until taken over by the Wallasey Corporation and opened as Wallasey Technical College in 1949." Regards Errol in Marysville, Victoria, Australia