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Date Posted: 15:43:17 05/30/14 Fri
Author: John Marsh (I was just a number)
Subject: Werrington approved boys

I was at the school for a very lengthy and unhappy 4 years from 1962 up until 1966, i was 11 when i was first sent there, my house was Trent and my number was 91, whilst i was there i never did try to run away from the school (more like a prison even though it was open) the thought and fear of what would happen if i was caught prevented this, after seeing 8 boys who had run away in the middle of the night, and who where all caught within 3 weeks, where then paraded on the dinning room stage,where then ordered to drop there pants and to bend over the 8 chairs that had been placed in such a way to expose there naked bottoms to the rest of the internees, they where then severely caned on the naked backsides each in turn.
I always remember my first day at the school and my first parade, which was at that time held out in the open on square of concrete, i was asking the boy next to me what i was expected to do, i was then singled out by Mr Green (the gardener)who was taking parade, because he said i was talking on parade, he called me out of the parade to face him in full view of all the other boys, then for no reason he slapped my ear which was very painful and my ear rung with bells and bled a little, he told me not to cry or he would belt my other ear, these days i have to ware a earring aid on that ear, he had perforated my ear drum.
Over the next 4 years i was bullied, not only by the other boys (because i was seen to be soft which stemmed from my first day encounter with Mr Green ) and also to some extent by a few of the other staff.
It was understood that when you reached 24 stars for good behavior you would be released and allowed home, some boys went home after serving 6 months, meanwhile because my parents where trying to sort out there relationship i was kept at the school for 4 years, 4 long years of a living hell.
The few friends which i made, who came and went over the 4 years i was at the school where Peter Dean number 90, Michel Chapman, and Bland.
I would dearly like to hear from any of the boys who think that they might have known me at the school between 1962 to 1966. My name is John known only as 91 at the school.

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