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hi my dad and his brother was in cottage homes about 1938 upwards please can you help thank you carnt remember the house he was in

 

Was in #2 house from 1940 till 46 can't remember many names so any info would be of a general nature or to cut it short it was a hell hole in all but one out of 8 homes miss Linsey 6or7 ?? was said to be kind and careing but the only one:mad::mad: I was born 34 so 6 in 1940 went to the little village school untill it closed around 42-43

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I was in Everingham Rd, In the mid 60s Auntie Trixie was the first house mother I knew, she had a cricket bat at the bottom of the stairs that had "greetings from Blackpool" written on it. If you were going to get beat for whatever but you were quick enough to get to your bedroom you were safe, but no one said how long you had to stay in for, If you left the bedroom too early she would go straight for the bat again and if she caught you it was curtains. She was fast and the bat was hard but at least we were fed 3 times a day. I went in at about 6/7yrs old and had never seen Marmite before, I spread it on like jam I must have only been in about a week and wasnt allowed to leave the table till I ate it I never touched the damned stuff again lol....That will teach me not to be greedy.....

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was i everingham rd too mid 50`s to about 62/63 betty hill was the house mother very handy with slipper or shoe the other house mother was julie she was nice and caring no pleasant memories of the place hill appeared too qick to dole out the sipper/shoe rather than get to the truth

 

Things did improve late 60s when Eva raynes and her Husband Bill took over, it was a lot less harsh, the bat went, no more beatings were administered, instead we had a shoe cleaning excercise 12 kids 3 shoes each = 36 shoes to clean outside on the doorstep, wasnt too bad unless it was night time in winter lol.

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There was an orphange at Lodge Moor back in the 50's. Now an up market residential area, but I remember seeing the kids walking back from Fulwood Church on a Sunday morning - quite a trek!

 

It was called Fulwood Cottage Homes and it did become a naughty girls home afterwards

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PLEASE PLEASE CAN some one please help me am looking for a girl BY THE name of

adele michelle slim by birth she might have changed her surname by know

please i have been told she's 17 or 18 by now

on her birth certif there's NO father's name & it might be me

 

(I broke up with her mum before birth as i was told she cheated on me with my mate that's)

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