The four Stepney Dormitories transferred their names to Goldings. “Aberdeen,” “Cairns,” “Kinnaird” and “Pelham”. Three new names have Been added “Somerset,” “Mount Stephen,” and “Buxton” the first after our President His Grace the Duke of Somerset, the second after the Lord Mount - Stephen a life long benefactor of the Homes and the third after the Buxton family who are taking a keen and personal interest in Barnardo's work.
I Don't know the date of this photo but it must be about 1951 as these rooms became the sitting
rooms for each house about 1960 along with us all getting new beds and new age Mattresses
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From May 1950
The Verney Hostel, Waterford
Pay parade in the 1930s - the most popular day of the week, in these days it was done on a Friday after leaving the workshops and school. In the sixties it was changed to Saturday. For the boys who had lost their pocket money due to fines would go around for odd stever's "the odd penny" from the other boys which would some times make you more than you had lost in fines. Me I used other methods on my walk to Hertford I would pick up butt ends and roll them into thin rolls and sell them spot cash 1d or 2d (a duce) money Saturday which was sometime hard to get your money off the boys, or you could use your initiative and offer your services doing peoples gardens which would keep you out of trouble most times and could get you about 5 shillings for an hours work, with a drink of squash and nosh. That was in the mid 60s, what did you do to get some extra money???????
The amazing monetary system that was used in those days were: One £ (pound) had 240d (pence). 12d (pence) made one 1s (shilling). There were 20s (shillings) in a £ (pound). Gt Britain had used this monetary system for hundreds of years - it's amazing they ever changed it to the complex and hard to understand decimal system we have today. Click here to read more >>>>>>>
A little while ago I received a couple of emails saying this was not a pay parade, well in the August of 1972 the Guild messenger described it as just that. It did an article on Goldings. Also what were the two adults doing sitting at the table?
I also noted the ablution block was totally different to the one we had in the 60s, I understand this was the one built prior to the Stepney boys moving in, it was replaced about 1948 and finished about 1951. See Photo below taken from the tower. Roy 'Doggy' Prato is playing ball against the new ablution block. David Smith took this photo from his quarters in the tower.
