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By Frank Cooke ©
photos from Barnardo's archive
26/04/2002

Spring hill School,
Palace Road,
Ripon,
Yorkshire.

Spring Hill School
Spring hill School had been opened in 1940 as a girls' evacuation centre. In the November of 1950 Spring hill  became an educational home for children with learning disabilities. Currently used for children with emotional and learning disabilities.

51/16 Childhood Memories a photographic history of Dr Barnardo's

Sadly this home was mentioned in abuse case ending with a prison sentence for members of staff. One Ex: Victim wrote:

The horror which went unchecked in The Old Bishop Palace. Ripon To my memories, which I should have been cared fore and happiness for living out my childhood in a care system away from the Madness of The World, I was in a world of Madness.

 

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