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From: "Robert Webb" <>
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Industrial Schools - Ipswich and others
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 21:05:43 -0000
References: <zwvqauAu3KJ+EwMd@varneys.demon.co.uk>


Many thanks for your information. is there anyway of obtaining more
information about that particular school and its inmates ?
Robert
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From: "Eve McLaughlin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 12:40 AM
Subject: Re: [UK-W&H] Industrial Schools - Ipswich and others


>
> > Industrial School that you enquired about, but
> >I can tell you that you should not believe all that
> >some reports would have you believe. Yes, they did, in
> >the 1920s, or at least some of them, become "approved
> >schools", which were in the 30s and 40s regarded as
> >being one short step away from being a Borstal.
> snip interesting personal family memories
> The important thing about the Industrial scholls is that they were the
> option for chiuildren who were reckoned to be saveable. Either they were
> in bad or difficult family circumstances, were in danger of getting into
> trouble or had been driven to petty crime by adverse circumstances, but
> were classed as not 'bad boys' but recoverable. They were normally
> decently educated and taught a trade by which they could live and
> support themselves so they would never have to turn to crime. And for
> most, it worked admirably.
>
>
> >Many had been found on the streets, begging and
> >homeless, whilst others, in like circumstances, were
> >caught stealing food or clothing. Others were there,
> >as was my father, because of marital breakdown and an
> >appearance at court of either or both of their parents
> >which resulted in total family breakdown.
>
> --
> Eve McLaughlin
>
> Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
> Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society
>
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