Cowley Schools

[stanmapstone]

The Changing Faces of Cowley (Book One), 1994.
Robert Boyd Publications. ISBN 1 899536 00 0.
includes some pictures of the Cowley Industrial School and has the
following to say about the institution:

"Cowley Industrial School..........
See
 http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/oxfordshire/1999-09/0938716722

Stan

[cathybryant]

Thank you once again, I have had a look at this and it is interesting.  Now I just need to find out what happened for the girls to be sent there. They came from a large family of aunts, uncles and cousins who could have cared for them if the parents died, I'll probably never know why they ended up in an Industrial School, or what descendants they have.

Thanks for you help everyone.

[behindthefrogs]

There are a couple of pictures at:

http://www.cowleyhistory.org.uk/html/research.html

and more pictures with a plan and a map at

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Oxford/Oxford.shtml

David

[cathybryant]

Thank you David, bit I can't access the second one at all.

[stanmapstone]

Thank you David, bit I can't access the second one at all.

Try http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/ then Workhouse Locations, then English Poor Law Unions, Oxfordshire, Oxford.

Stan

[behindthefrogs]

The link works OK for me.

However if you search on google for:

"Oxford Workhouse" " Cowley Industrial School"

it is about the fourth result returned.  The School is part way down the page

David

[stanmapstone]

http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Oxford/Oxford.shtml  works for me with Firefox but not with AOL where I get the message "The webpage cannot be found".
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/ will not work on AOL but http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/  does.   

Stan

[cathybryant]

Thank you.