Oh, how I want to go to the Lancashire Record Office for a day. See, their catalogue shows that they hold the complete records of the “Liverpool Juvenile Reformatory Association”, comprising:
Minutes 1855 – 1924, 1934 – 1956, letter books 1872 – 1919, log books 1909 – 1954, admission registers 1892 – 1955, licence register 1900 – 1914, medical reports 1903 – 1911, 1926 – 1934, punishment books 1909 – 1924, various registers 1904 – 1940 (Including Red Bank School, Newton-le-Willows; Akbar training ship/Heswall Nautical Training School; Liverpool Girls’ Reformatory; and Nile Street and Grafton Street Industrial Schools, Liverpool.)
Punishment books? For the Girls’ Reformatory? Wow!
A little more digging shows that said establishment was located at 6 Mount Vernon Green, Liverpool. It opened in 1857 for 80 girls then expanded in 1912, closing four years later. The staff list for 1891 made me smile: “Superintendent, Mrs Dearle ; assistant superintendent Miss Ferguson ; schoolmistress Miss Callis ; Chaplin Rev. R.G. Breary.” I’m rather curious as to whether Rev. Breary might have been called on to help with matters disciplinary as well as spiritual.
Rev Breary acotually sounds more likely to have a drink problem than anything else 😉 Rather like most vicars…
Irelynn and Sarah and I are in Liverpool… hmmmm….. 😉
Toby – Are you saying we should be inmates of said reformatory? Oh go on then! 😉
Of course you know I am, dear… 😉 X
Toby – you really do need to take Sarah and Irelynn to Mount Vernon Green and take a photo of them bending over outside… Assuming the building still exists!
Hmmm…roadtrip anyone?!