In a message dated 11/09/2011 19:33:57 GMT Daylight Time, Bfc712@aol.com writes: I had not previously seen the reference to the Cowley Industrial School. The whole passage is extremely interesting - as indeed were your findings regarding the removal of your husband's grandfather to Bristol Industrial School. Clearly there are other avenues I can pursue regarding Thomas Yates' time at Beckley. I have now acquired (from OFHS) a copy of "Village Education in Nineteenth-Century Oxfordshire" and this is providing some excellent background information. Dear Michael I am glad that you are finding the copy of "Village Education in 19th Century Oxfordshire incorporating a transcription of the Whitchurch School Logbook 1868-93" that you purchased from this society's bookstall to be of use. If you were one of the customers who had to wait a few weeks during August for us to fulfil your order, then please accept my apologies - we had a sudden run on stocks and then my supplier was on holiday when I tried to restock ! The other book that is on sale from the bookstall that might interest you is :- "Childhood Secrets: Oxfordshire Children sent to Reformatories and Industrial Schools 1855-1900 ; Volume One". Meanwhile, Volume Two has nearly been completed by the publisher, and will be added to the bookstall in early October. My review of Volume One of "Childhood Secrets" appeared in the August 2011 edition of the "Oxfordshire Family Historian", the journal of this society. Best wishes. Paul Gaskell Bookstall Manager Oxfordshire Family History Society Website : _www.ofhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ofhs.org.uk)