Name: Lowdham Grange Borstal
Start: 2025-11-20T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Coddington Village Hall

Speaker meeting. A talk by Jeremy Lodge.
Lowdham Grange, the historic borstal, was opened in 1930. Living initially in tents, the young offenders, trained and supervised by local tradesmen built a pioneering Open Borstal which had no walls or fences. They and staff from the prison service, with the continued support of Paterson and others, created a building and a system that was to survive, against the odds, for some 50 years.
Jeremy Lodge lived at Lowdham Grange where his father was a Prison Officer on his first posting in 1963.
All welcome, £2 at the door for non-members including tea/coffee and biscuits after the talk, or become a member of our friendly group for £10 p.a.