On this page
-
Text (1)
-
MANCHESTER AND SAEEORD REFORMATORY. 407
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Pijkasanttiit Situated On Rising Ground ...
lo brick ok a wall deli , htful relieved garden by . tlie In white this home curtained reside windows forty boys which , thirty- over nine - g
of whom are acknowledged criminals . Thirty-nine little social pests , formation housed , clothed as , educated eventuall , and make undergoing them useful such members a gradual of societ trans y . -
to s Thirty tud societ ying -nine mechanical , at large yo may ung a benefit " arts Fingersmiths , which y never may realised " bring ( as from to they them the term a handicraft happ themselves iness , they and )
have forsaken y . Thirty-nine , immortal souls , whom Satan had entang and pursuing led in the the web ri of ht path mischief Poor , rescued waifs from and strays the ab , yss drifting of misery down ,
the current of destruction g rescued . and brought into such a harbour . The Manchester and Salford , Reformatory is the offspring of a 1854
in ragged the Angel and industrial Meadow and school Ancoats for boys district and . girls From , opened the number July of ,
to app deci lications de whether receive crimin d from als criminal should be boys considered , it soon admissible became necessary or not ; iC that
and , as the report says , The committee agreed to a resolution whilst they wished it to be understood that the for school the _reclamation was not es of
tablished for the reformation of criminals , but vagrants children not and exceeding beggars , fourteen yet they years would of not age exclude slightl hopeful y tainted cases with of
, children crime . They who had still , been however actuall , did committed not contemp to late prison the , except admission in very of y
peculi of far ar larger cases . number But it of is not the too crimin much al class to anlrm than that they the had recep at first tion
a intended were con , stantl was y absolutel presenting y forced themselves upon them to their by circumstances notice . Case which after
of expressing case was broug from an earnest ht their before former desire them associates for of reformation young no lads hope , released but of having obtaining from no the honest ineans gaol ,
emp escape loyment , and no prospect , but that of , a speedy return to the prison from which hardened they and had desperate just emerged than , to before be again . U let pon loose such upon app society licants ,
more the committee could not shut their doors , and so they gradually increased the number of their bedsuntil the reception of criminal
children became the principal feature , of their establishment , and up to October 1855 the whole number of criminal applicants admitted but small
was thirty-seven . These we are told , however , formed a temporary portion of those closing who of had the institution applied the for for admission sanitary ; of reasons and during , the * com the the
mittee anxiously deliberated on advisability restricting institution whollto criminalsand at last decided upon this course . The affairs of the y institution having , been laid before the public , the
sum of £ 36146 s . was collected towards building a house in a ,, niore healthy locality , and in October 1856 nine acres institution of land were
purchased opened on at August Blackley 6 th for , 1 857 this , purpose by the . Lord The Bishop new of Manchester was ,
Manchester And Saeeord Reformatory. 407
MANCHESTER AND _SAEEORD REFORMATORY . 407
-
-
Citation
-
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1859, page 407, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081859/page/47/
-