A children's charity has celebrated historic ties with the railway station to which it gave its name.
Rail bosses have agreed to install new signs at Reedham station, in Purley, to draw attention to its links to the Reedham Children's Trust, which supports children who have lost a parent.
The station opened in 1911 and took its name from the nearby Reedham Asylum for Fatherless Children, an orphanage and school that evolved into today's charity.
Signs reading "home of Reedham's Children's Trust" were put in place by Southern Rail on Wednesday at a reception attended by charity staff and former pupils of the school.
Sarah Smart, the charity's chief executive, said: "We're the oldest dedicated children's charity in Croydon and yet many people have not even heard of us, so we hope this will increase awareness of us and support."
The orphanage was founded in 1844 by Andrew Reed, a philanthropist and Protestant church minister, before moving to a purpose-built estate in Old Lodge Lane 14 years later.
It provided accommodation for 300 children whose fathers had died or were too ill to care for them.
Until the second world war, the children were admitted through twice yearly elections that required them to win votes from patrons.
Children were taught up until age 15, with many benefiting from Mr Reed's connections to land good jobs.
During the war, the school provided a refuge for evacuated children from London.
One of those, Derrick Smith, arrived as a 10-year-old from Orpington in 1939 and returned to Reedham for the reception on Wednesday.
The 86-year-old, who now lives in Poole and is honourary historian for the Reedham Old Scholars Association, said "I think it is very important that people know about its history.
"A lot of commuters come through here from a wide area to get to London and probably have no idea."
Reedham ceased to be a school in 1967 but remained a children's home until 1979, when it closed having cared for nearly 6,000 children.
The money raised by selling the land was used to establish the children's trust, now based on Old Lodge Lane.
Temporary signs have been erected at the station but will be replaced with permanent ones.
They were the idea of Angela Hay, the charity's communications and business development officer.
In a remarkable twist of fate, when she contacted Southern to propose the signs the first person she spoke to was a former Reedham pupil.
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