Approved School Website
Documenting the history of female Approved Schools, Industrial
Schools, Reformatory Schools and Remand Homes in the UK.
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Duncroft Approved School for Girls in Staines
SITE UPDATED 19th JUNE 2004 -- NEW ITEM IN DOCUMENTS PAGE
Any former girls or staff, or anyone else with information regarding such schools are welcome to contact me.
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List of Approved Schools for girls operating in England and Wales in 1965. A more detailed list appears under DOCUMENTS. Some had closed down before this date and a few opened afterwards so if your school is not here please email and let me know:
Avalon (Chislehurst), Bowden hall (Gloucester), Bryanston House (Nottingham), Chaworth (Ottershaw), The Crescent (Bristol), Duncroft (Staines), Farringdon House (Honiton), Hyrstlands (Batley), Knowle Hill (Kenilworth), Moorside (Sheffield), Poplar Bank House (Liverpool), Rowley Hall (Stafford), St Christopher's Home (Crosby),St Hilda's (Newcastle), St Johns Home (Birmingham), St John's Training School (Wakefield), St Joseph's (Chippenham), St Laurence's (Tunbridge Wells), St Michael's (Sailsbury), Shermanbury Grange (Horsham), Woodlands (East Grinstead), Avonside (Bath), Benton Grange (Newcastle), Greenacres (Calne), Longfords (Stroud), Northenden Road Girls School (Sale), Princess Mary Village Homes (Addlestone), St Euphrasia's (Monmouth), Springhead Park (Leeds), Ave Maria (Eltham, London), Blackbrook House (St Helens), Newfield (Coventry), Northumberland Village Homes (Whitley Bay), Ryalls Court (Seaton, Devon), Waldernheath (Harrogate), Magdalen Hospital Classifying School (Ealing, London).
Approved Schools for girls in Scotland: Balgay Approved School for Girls (Dundee), Snowdon Approved School for Girls (Stirling), Tynepark Approved School (Haddington), Balnacraig Approved School (Perth), Langlands Park Approved School (Glasgow), Dr Guthrie's School for Girls (Edinburgh). Also Whiteabbey Training School (N Ireland). More information needed about schools in Scotland and Ireland.
Most of the schools listed above appear also on the Friends Reunited website