North-Eastern Reformatory for Boys, Netherton, near Morpeth, Northumberland
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Description
"In 1857, the cumbersomely named "Newcastle, Northumberland, and Durham Society for the Repression of Juvenile Crime, and the Reformation of Youthful Delinquents" opened the North-Eastern Reformatory School for Boys as a replacement for its existing Newcastle Reformatory premises. The new School was erected at Netherton (now Nedderton), near Morpeth, on a 10-acre site on the estate of Lord Carlisle. A further 30 acres of adjacent farmland were also leased. The public appeal to raise the projected £3,500 cost of the scheme was slow to meet its target and the plans drawn up, without charge, by three local architects were dropped in favour of a cheaper design concocted by the School's own management committee....." -
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Further information
Link: http://www.childrenshomes.org.uk/NethertonRfy/
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