Was there an orphanage or childrens home on the site of Styal prison

[ScouseBoy]

Did Styal childrens home go on holiday to Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp for one week in the summer  around about 1954 and 1955?

[genjen]

 

By the way Genjen I've sent you a reply.

?? Where? I don't seem to have anything in my PM inbox.

Jen

[Lord V.]

Hi Tutin66, sorry i should have mentioned i was looking for around mid 1960's

[Tutin66]

Well now this is my third time of trying. I've only just joined so i'm probably doing the wrong thing and losing messages instead of sending them.  Anyway hear we go again.
I was in Styal C'sH from the age of 3-9. We left just before the Coranation. My sister and youngest brother must have been about 12 or 13.  My eldest brother had some sort of "learning difficulties" so was used as free labour.  I know he had problems but i remember seeing him painting windows. I think the second eldest had to leave when he was about 15 but I know he used to do jobs in the village to earn money ie deliver milk collect papers and post from railway station and help at local church on Sunday. My sister and I both lived in "B" house the second on the right on the www Styal pictures.  my youngest brother  was in "A" house the first house.  the first house on the left just as you as look in the intrance is where we would see our parents. We would sit on wooden benches just like those in railway staition waiting rooms. If children wet the bed they had to take them to the laundrey and wash them by hand but take them just as other children were on the way to school (to shame them). This happend to the twins so they missed a lot of education, couldn't read or write when they left.  I remember having my feet scrubbed with a big wooden brush till little beeds of blood coverd my feet. Alway falling down polished stairs spraining my ankle my sister haveing to force my shoes on my fett. I still have my toes curled under.

[Tutin66]

Hi Lord V

Styal was closed in the 50s. After closure as childrens home was used for refugees from Hungary.  However from other articles I have seen in the past about Styal I feel sure that there was another place for children somewhere around Styal village because some people go on www pages about Styal C H  and what they say dosen't match up with what I remember It sounds like a much nicer place with nicer staff.  So I feel sure there was another place and I think it possible it was a place for sick children.  There possible will be someone on the Styal village www that will be able to help you.

[titty]

Did Styal childrens home go on holiday to Morecambe Bay Holiday Camp for one week in the summer  around about 1954 and 1955?

hello i am trying to find out where i can find records of members of my family who were in styal homes in the 1930.s

[LizzieW]

When I was in junior school in the late 1940s/early 1950s, I remember children who were undernourished, or weak or whatever were sent to a home/school near Alderley Edge, for convalescence which might be the place you are thinking about Tutin that was nicer than yours, it is not that far from Styal.

Lizzie

[selwynfroggitt]

In 1926 a relative was widowed with 6 children the youngest only 1 year old then in 1933 she died. The younger children went to Styal and the two youngest who were girls were at some point taken by families who wanted a child or free house servant...
One disliked being what she called a free skivvy and ran away but was later caught and taken back, the other one never married and stayed with the lady for the rest of her life.... the sad thing is that it was noticed that as the other children were playing outside she was watching through the window and seemed to have had no contact with young people.
One of the boys married a girl who was also in Styal at the same time but did not know each other when there.

[STYAL]

There definitely was a home where the prison now is. It was called Styal Cottage Homes. I was in there from 1950 until 1955. I was 8 when I went in. They then started to put us on new estates such as Wythenshawe and Middleton. I was in M home and I used to run away on a regular basis and put up with the beatings when they brought me back. The place itself and the location were really very good. the problem was they staffed it with sadistic people. There were a couple of great house parents but the majority of them would give you some form of punishment for the slightest thing. Most of the female staff were single and had no idea about young children.
There was an open air place next door for children with breathing problems. But nothing to do with Styal Cottage Homes. I sang in the Church choir there for the years I was there.
I have lived in Australia since 1964 and have told my 2 daughters all about it. I tell them about my running away and going to my grans in Ardwick. I would walk through the night to get there and the police would normally leave me for 48 hours and then come and take me back. They knew where I went and felt sorry for the runaways.
I know this is a bit late, but if you still log on, hope it helped.
Love to hear from anybody who was in there during that period, I remember lots of names but not to be published on here.