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Date Posted: 03:57:06 02/29/08 Fri
Author: terry whiteside
Subject: Re: Why Do We Do It?
In reply to: Bob Barnett 's message, "Why Do We Do It?" on 14:11:57 01/21/07 Sun

>I wonder what triggers the memories that makes one
>serch for clues to ones days in the clutches of an
>institution that varied its treatment of deliquent
>boys from kind to vindictive and all shades in
>between. I was at Ardale from late 1969 until 1973
>with a couple of breaks at Detention Centres. Remember
>Steve Neave, Ian Silver and a guitarist from
>Southampton. ALso remember Mr Cooper one of the house
>teachers. The silver band, lol. Still have that photo
>from 1970 with me on the bass drum. Anyone out there
>from that time in Ardale, please respond. By the way,
>they've pulled it dwn and built houses on it now.
>Everthings gone except the old tree, they slapped a
>preservation order on it. I guess we do it to fill in
>the missing pieces of a fragile childhood, which when
>you reach 50 seems light years ago and a very dim
>memory.
I wasnt at Ardale, was at shawbury approved, Dover and Feltham borstals, i wish my memories were dim,im 61 it was along time ago, iremember to much of it,still occasional bad dreams,nasty pointless places.

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