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Beechwood Children's Home
Beechwood children's home was a care home for children in Mapperley in Nottinghamshire, England, where staff committed serious sexual and "sadistic" abuse against children spanning several decades before it closed in 2006. Some abusive staff received lengthy prison sentences. By June 2019, 136 former residents had reported being sexually abused there, which police considered "the small tip of a very large iceberg". Beechwood was described by witnesses as "intimidating", "like a prison", "a horrible place" and having a "really toxic mix" of people. It was considered "appalling and squalid" by staff and "atrocious" by a psychologist. A judge later called it "a home from hell". Site The Beechwood site, in Mapperley, Nottinghamshire, is known to have been a children's home in 1966 and there were reports of Beechwood operating as one in the 1950s. It has also at various times been a remand home and an "observation and assessment centre". It was jointly run by Nottingham City Council an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mapperley
Mapperley is a residential and commercial area of north-eastern Nottingham, England. The area is bounded by Sherwood to the north-west, Thorneywood to the south and Gedling to the east. History At various periods the terms 'Mapperley' and 'Mapperley Plains' have been applied to lands, on either side of Woodborough Road (B684), from a point at the junction of Mapperley Road, north-east for a distance of some , to that point where the road forks towards Woodborough village. The stretch of Woodborough Road from Mapperley Road to Porchester Road is called 'Mapperley Plains' on Jackson's map of 1851–66, for example. This section considers the history of the suburb within the present day city boundary. The origins of the city of Nottingham suburb called Mapperley seem to be found in the fourteenth century. Writing in the 1670s about lands in the lordship of Basford,(i.e. west of present-day Woodborough Road) which were called ''cornerswong'', Dr Robert Thoroton, notes: :In the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |