Thank you, Jill, for your response. 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 Yeates' 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. Regards Michael