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Date Posted: 09:33:39 01/25/09 Sun
Author: peter o'reilly (happy)
Subject: Re: St Georges Freshfield Formby
In reply to: Bernie Holmes 's message, "St Georges Freshfield Formby" on 12:45:29 08/16/08 Sat

i was there in the 70s for 3 years i was in green house and mr matthews was the housemaster i absconded quite alot and ended up in st josephs in nantwich which i hated it was run by brothers who were vindictive ended up in detention fosten hall worthington house hindley borstal and walton prison i have been out of trouble for 31years and happily married for 30 it made me see sense after being in and out of trouble for 12 years i have a good job and enjoy life to the full>I was in St Georges in the 1970,s and spent 3 years
>and 10 months there, i became trapped in the system an
>sadly went on to go to Detention Centre (Foston Hall
>Derbeyshire) Borstal ( Hindley-Wigan) then into the
>prison system Walton-Liverpool-then the infamous
>Strangeways in Manchester.there was Risley Remand
>Centre and Red Bank on the way as well.thankfully I
>escaped the system to eventually found good employment
>and have been in the same job now for 30 years, I have
>5 kids my own house, these places taught me respect
>for other people and there property,I wish i could say
>the same for the institutions of today, which includes
>the drug culture which was not as vibrant at that
>time. there was abuse in all these places some
>physical some mental some sexual, although none of
>these ever happended to me. what are your
>recollections of the system overall and did you escape
>regards
>Bernie

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