Recent content by Dawn pp

Sounds like different schools were very different experiences depending on what staff were employed. I am glad your second experience was positive I bet you were dreading it though.

Thank you for responding. I agree with the point you make about being isolated, I also felt that some of the older girls who supervised us were almost surrogate mums thankfully they were positive memories. I am sure that the school held a long and profound effect on lives. Personally I...

Harsh treatment aside, the surrounding area around Cropwood House was beautiful winter and summer, I remember going to bed and listening to sound of Owls hooting and waking in the mornings to the sound of bird song and Cuckoos. The building itself although daunting initially, was beautiful...

During one summer evening I remember Miss Urquhart coming into the main hub where the sinks were with her dog in a really bad mood. She asked one of the girls "what she had been telling her parents", she continued with quizzing her for sometime. We all knew instinctively that this girl was in...

There was a swing outside and I remember watching some girls one day swinging it and jumping over it. I thought I would give that a try but it caught my foot and I hit the floor head first. I can remember waking up in the nurses room on the couch. She concluded it would be best if I went...

The doctor recommended physio exercise to strengthen my feet. The exercise was to pick up bean bags between the toes and place them into a bucket then a piece of wood was put in place with another another bucket on top, this exercise was repeated until you had made a tower. Eventually I...

We all looked forward to the sweet parcels that would arrive from time to time, these parcels were shared out at break times. I have no recollections of any sort of toys/games or television. After dinner we would go on long walks round the countryside, we had long macs with hoods and went...

I was left feeling confused reading some of the threads regarding the varied experiences at Cropwood, the threads prompted many memories which I then couldn't get out of my mind, that drove me to write about my time there even though I never put anything online. I came to realise that...