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Stowfield House
Wendy wrote (April 2008): "I recently came across this photo from my past of a group of boys who lived at Stowfield House in the early 1950s. As I thought about it, I realised that I knew nothing about their situation. Was it an orphanage? Were the boys refugees? Had they lost their parents during the war? How many boys lived there? I can remember a lot of them coming to Lydbrook church every Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Sterkx who were the Matron and the Director. I would be interested to learn something more about those boys I knew more than 50 years ago".
Margaret Wilce added (April 2008): "The boys were evacuees mainly
from London, they went to Joys Green and Lydbrook Schools, at least two
were adopted by local families".
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