Hampstead Wartime Nurseries was a wartime shelter for children and their families who had been bombed or displaced during World War II and existed between 1941 and 1945. It established by Anna Freud and her partner Dorothy Burlingham in January 1941 to provide a home. The first nursery was known as the "Childrens Rest Centre". that had been established in Hampstead with monies provided by the American Foster Parentsâ Plan for War Children.