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I was in Castle School from 1961 to 1964. It was good at times and also bad. Mr Bowls was the head, and didn't we know it. I had the walking stick on many a Friday morning after assembly. I cannot remember any names from people there. 12 months after leaving I went in the Merchant Navy on the catering side,... [more]
Shared on Monday, October 12, 2009
I was actually born in Middlesbrough in 1953, but being a bit of a handful in my life early life I was placed in certain boys' schools, one being The Castle School at Stanhope. My memories of my 3 yrs there are full of happiness and adventure.
I now try to recall some of the places that I remember but... [more]
Shared on Sunday, June 29, 2008
I was at the Castle School in Stanhope from 1975-77, I was in Bewdley House and in Big Raby dorm, to me I have no good memories about the place to be honest. I thought it was an evil place, if the law was then as it is today many of the staff would have got a prison sentence after the... [more]
Shared on Monday, September 01, 2008
Stanhope Boys Home.. a horrible place to be.
I was in Crawly House in Stanhope Castle School from 1978-1981. My memories were not too good, it was a horrible place to be when you were 11 years old.
I visited Stanhope Home a year ago and it has been turned into flats, the school block looks like it had fallen down and is overgrown with weeds... which is probably... [more]
Shared on Sunday, September 14, 2008
RE: My 6 years at Stanhope Castle
Hello Michael ,
I read your sad and disturbing memories of your period at the Stanhope School, sadly I have to say that what appears to be a chapter from a Dickens novel is all too true and witnessed by myself during at stay at the school in 1967.
I was a student attending a Home Office Training... [more]
Shared on Thursday, September 10, 2009
The Castle School, Stanhope 1977-1980
I went to Castle School in 1977 till about 1980 and have some happy memories of the place. I was sent there because I was a handful at 11 years old, and no local school would take me! Some of the kids there came from really terrible family backgrounds, through no fault of their own, while some kids were just bad.
Shared on Friday, April 24, 2009
1975-1979
Yes it was hell. But at the end of the day I did wrong. But I was only a kid, and I think it was only petty. You'd think I did murder to what went on at Stanhope Castle. It was all true. I would to get in contact with anyone else who experienced Stanhope Castle like I did, in... [more]
Shared on Saturday, April 25, 2009
Well, I have been reading some articles posted on this website, about Castle School in Stanhope from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Well, I was in Castle School from 1958 - 1962. I was in because I was a badden, lol, just like those who have posted messages on here. When I was driven up the driveway to the... [more]
Shared on Saturday, June 20, 2009
