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Thank you all for your input, once again the Rootschat community has com up trumps, i have since discovered George entered the orphanage in 1912 aged 8 years, so just after the 1911 census. i will do some research on the information from the 1921 census which has been a great starting point. Also the possibility of the Staffs connection. This has been a family mystery since the 1920s so thank you all once again for your help.
Regards Daisy   

Thanks Carol, I'm on Ancestry so I don't have access but it looks like my only option.

Hoping someone can help shed some light on what happened to my uncle George Frost. He was born in Liverpool 20/4/1904, was taken off the street and put into an industrial school  as a child for vagrancy as where his two brothers, I believe the orphanage/industrial school was in Beacon Lane . He remained there until he was sixteen and that was the last sighting the family ever had of him. I have now found a record of him in the UK Calendar of prisioners 1868/1929 where he was charged by the Liverpool police for stealing a coconut, 21st Sept 1920, was tried at Salford bough court the offence was no visable means of support, he was sentenced to three years in a borstal institution. I have contacted Salford archives but unfortunately the court records for that year 1920 are missing. I was told it is very likely the borstal in question would probably be somewhere in the South of England. Without this information it is impossible to find out what happened to this poor man. If anyone can suggest where I go from here I would be most grateful. I have done all the usual searches but it's a needle in a haystack.

Hi hoping someone would be able to advise me on how i would go about tracking down the records of a person who was sent to borstal in 1920, court Salford borough. My uncle was born in Liverpool 1904 and was taken off the streets as a child and put into an industrial school along with his two brothers, he remained there until he was sixteen, on discharge he totally disappeared from the family never to be heard of again. I have now found a record of him in Salford being charged with no visible means of support and stealing a coconut, for that he was given three years detention. I would love to find out what happened to this poor man, any help is much appreciated.

Regards Daisy

Thank you athacliath62 for your interest is much appreciated.

Regards Daisy