Hi, just to add to the Pennoyre House Swansea / HULL connection. I also have in my possession a similar photograph as described. Picture shows 35 boys plus stern looking man in a bowler hat. My Great Grandfather George Ernest GRANTHAM is seated in the middle row. Pic circa 1890s.
I'm reliably informed that he spent time in an Orphanage - begs the question is Pennoyre House an Orphanage or a 'home' within an Orphanage?
To add to the emerging HULL connection theme, whilst George Ernest GRANTHAM was to the best of my knowledge not from HULL but Lincolnshire? He later married settled and died in HULL where the majority of the family remain to this day. The HULL mystery / connection appears to continue?
If I can be of any further assistance, more then happy to help, or if anyone can add further light more then happy to hear from you.