Haut de la Garenne
| Jersey Accommodation and Activity Centre | |
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| Haut de la Garenne | |
Haut de la Garenne (La Rue de la Pouclée et des Quatre Chemins frontage)
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| Former names | Haut de la Garenne, Industrial School, Jersey Home for Boys. |
| General information | |
| Status | Complete |
| Address | La Rue de la Pouclée et des Quatre Chemins |
| Town or city | Parish of St. Martin |
| Country | Jersey |
| Coordinates | 49°12′05″N 2°01′37″W / 49.201389°N 2.026944°W |
| Opened | 22 June 1867 |
| Owner | States of Jersey |
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The Jersey Accommodation and Activity Centre is a building in Saint Martin, Jersey, in the Channel Islands. It was formerly known as the Industrial School, the Jersey Home for Boys, and Haut de la Garenne. Its previous uses have included being an industrial school, a children's home, a military signal station, a television filming location, and a youth hostel. In 2008 it became the focus of the largest investigation into child abuse ever conducted in Jersey.
Haut de la Garenne began in 1867 as an industrial school for "young people of the lower classes of society and neglected children". The construction of the school was funded at a cost of £2,410 by the Assembly of Governor, Bailiff and Jurats in order to house and educate boys formerly looked after at the General Hospital in Saint Helier. On 22 June 1867, 45 boys were transferred by coach to the new institution, overseen by Jurats Neel and Aubin, Charles Simon, director of the hospital, and Mr. Higginbottom, master of the new school.
By 1900 it had become the Jersey Home for Boys and continued as a children's home for many years. In 1921 the States of Jersey took over the buildings and most of the powers of the Assembly of Governor, Bailiff and Jurats. During the German Occupation during the Second World War, the German military used the building as a signal station. Following the Liberation of 1945, the building continued as a children's home with responsibility being taken over by the Education Committee. On 17 March 1960 the States adopted an act changing the name of the institution to Haut de la Garenne. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s the home received both boys and girls, but as care policy developed the number of children in care was reduced from 1970 onwards. A new wing for staff accommodation was built on the western part of the site in 1970. After the home closed in 1986, the building was used to portray a police station in the TV detective series Bergerac.
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