Searching for any info Melwood orphanage/convent school
Can anyone provide any info re Melwood Convent or boarding School in West Derby, which I think is off Honeysgreen Lane. My Mum was taken there as an orphan in the 20s and stayed 10 difficult years. She found it hard to talk about so our details are patchy. We are trying to put the pieces together (my 4 Sisters and myself) as she has now passed away. Anyone know anything about some sort of orphanage in the Honeysgreen Lane area of West Derby operational in the 20s and 30s. I am sure I was told it was called Melwood Convent but the only one I can trace is a Carmelite Monastery in West Derby but I think they are a closed order so I think they would not have taught and cared for orphans. If they did, they definitely did a bad job of it as my Mum had nightmares about the place for the rest of her life. Can anyone help fill a gap in our family history. Thanks a lot
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Can anyone provide any info re Melwood Convent or boarding School in West Derby, which I think is off Honeysgreen Lane. My Mum was taken there as an orphan in the 20s and stayed 10 difficult years. She found it hard to talk about so our details are patchy. We are trying to put the pieces together (my 4 Sisters and myself) as she has now passed away. Anyone know anything about some sort of orphanage in the Honeysgreen Lane area of West Derby operational in the 20s and 30s. I am sure I was told it was called Melwood Convent but the only one I can trace is a Carmelite Monastery in West Derby but I think they are a closed order so I think they would not have taught and cared for orphans. If they did, they definitely did a bad job of it as my Mum had nightmares about the place for the rest of her life. Can anyone help fill a gap in our family history. Thanks a lot
History of West Derby School
The post-war 'baby-boom' resulted in a much higher number of teenage children in the 1950s. Liverpool Corporation embarked on a massive school building programme, which our two school sites were part of.
West Derby High School was opened in September 1957 by the first Head Teacher was Mr A.L Casson. The school was designed by Liverpool Architects Harold E Davies and Sons to house 540 boys. Harold E Davies died in 1952, so it is unlikely that he was involved with the plans, his son Harold Hinchcliffe probably designed the building which took about two years to complete.
Source : http://www.westderbyschool.com/pages/oldWD/oldWD1.html
This site gives information about boarding school in West Derby and in the U.S.
http://www.teen-boarding-school.com/
Hope this helps.