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Re: BOWSKILL Family
« Reply #30 on: Saturday 03 May 08 12:20 BST (UK) »
Jim

You have brought back memories with your last entry!

When I was a student nurse there and lived in the nurses home - we were sometimes called out [when off-duty] & given boots and torches to search for patients [inmates].

The older nurses would always say " s/he will be in the lagoon ".  They were usually right.

The lagoon/blue lagoon/clay pit, or brick pit [as it is variously known] was the end of many people, who died there intentionally or otherwise.  I dont even know the numbers of people who died there - but I would guess in the hundreds rather than dozens?

Search: Blue Lagoon Arlesey ...........................
..............and you will find it is a tourist spot.  However beautiful, I could never go there now as to me it is a place of sadness.


Everyone must have worked in the pits or at the asylum in the early 20th C?

Lots of people drowned there - one day they may be recorded but I doubt it.

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Re: BOWSKILL Family
« Reply #31 on: Saturday 31 May 08 12:20 BST (UK) »
Cathy,
        sorry for the long delay replying,been away for a while.i too started my working life at the hospital in 1965 as a apprentice chef !.it was a great place to work then,: good sports /recreation facilities,cinema ,dances, etc.what i saw as well the patients seemed well cared for.lots of local families
worked there both full and part time.best regards jim.
ps, i spoke with my two elderly cousins yesterday and they informed me that living next door to William and Rosina Bowskill(our grandparents)was Williams  unmarried brother ;Peter Bowskill.i have tried and cannot find him anywhere,have you any thoughts ideas,they would be most welcome,thanks again Jim.
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