buckley hall orphanage rochdale

[yelkcub]

I notice that the postings on this thread are quite old, and I'm wondering whether any new information has come to light regarding the Orphanage's records. My father spent some time there (late '20s, early '30s) and I'd be most interested to find the documentary evidence. One post here suggested that Buckley Hall was a Catholic institution––is this true? and if so, would non-Catholic boys have also been admitted?

[Maggiek11]

Hi, I would love to see pictures of the orphans. My grandad was one of the first children there he is on the list of life time members in the back of the book, Mr JP Mills. I’m not sure of the dates but he was born around 1890, I think he went when he was around 7. He was trained as a tailor there. Any information from around that time would be welcome. ( I have the book that has been mentioned)
Thank you.

[Gibel]

There is information and a lot of photographs of Buckley Hall on the www.childrenshomes.org. then you need U.K.. Unfortunately my iPad always changes it to U.K. which is infuriating.

[heywood]

That link doesn’t work on my iPad, Gibel.

Does this? It is .org.uk
http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/RochdaleBuckleyHall/

[Gibel]

Thank you heywood.

My iPad refuses to allow me to type the ending of a website as anything but U.K. if anyone can tell me how I can get it to accept U.K. in lower case I’d be delighted.

[heywood]

Isn’t that odd. I just tried it and it was fine. I am sure you have tried  deleting it and then retype it - ensuring you are in lower case. Mine does occasionally type an unwanted capital but that is probably because I have caught the shift key.