THE BARNARDO HOMES.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17419, 1 April 1922, Page 5

THE BARNARDO HOMES.

HEW SECTION. (TOOK OTTE OWN ooersspondrht.) LONDON, Fobroary 14. Sir H. H. Stilemaa, Director of the Dr. Barnardo Homes, awiouacaa that 300 boys who are in training at the technical shops down the Causeway, are to be transferred after Easter, to Goldings, a beautiful country estate near Hertford. There arrangements have for some months'been in progress for the housing, training, and upbringing of the bigger lads. Goldings means country instead of town, pure air instead of smoke and dust and a germladen atmosphere. It means also greater health, higher efficiency, brighter lives. A private dwelling there, built on a large and generous scale, has been acquired for a mere fraction of its original cost. It has lent itself readily to reconstruction to meet the needs of a permanent family of 300 boys. Blacksmiths, carpenters, printers, tinsmiths, Jind wheelwrights, will find in their new home such workshops as Stepney has never known. Some of these boys will also work on the land. Great results in tho moral health and efficiency of tho voung technically-trained lads who should be turned out at Goldings, as the vears go by, are looked for. Dormitories, living rooms, playrooms, instruction rooms, are all ready, and a dininghall has been built by the generosity of a single donor as a memorial to a beloved husband by his widow. There is one important gap still needing to be filled—a chapel. For some time to come tho services will have to be held in tho dining-hall. That is obviously undesirable on many grounds, <so Sir Harry makes known this need aiiu asks: "Who will come forward to build these boys a chapel, worthy of its important functions. As is well known tho work of the Barrprdo Homes is inter-denominatienal. The new chapel at Goldings will bo dedicated, but not consecrated, so that it will bo open for tho use and worship of Free Cliurch lads as well as those belonging to the Church of England. Our chapels at tho Girls' Village Homo, Barkingsido, at the Watts Naval Training School in Norfolk, and at th" Boys' Home, Stepuey, are all carried on on similar lines and with excellent results. Tho spiritual tono among the boys of_ the Stepnoy Home is most encouraging. "Tho for Goldman will cost about £lO 000. The structure might be of a memorial character aid bear the name of someone whose life was fragrant. and whose departure, perhaps, left a g*M> that never enn be filled. We await with earnest hope the coming of a friend wh 0 will give our boys their house of worship. I shall be glad to correspond with any lady or gentleman who i*i ny feol drawn to devote such a , magnificent gift as is here indicated I to the service of God in the training and uplifting of His clildren."