They Walk Among Us - UK True Crime
Sep 2, 2026 · 59 min · 16 segments
In the winter of 1947, a shooting at an approved school triggers a huge police search. Ten boys have disappeared, and investigators soon uncover troubling secrets… \*\** LISTENER CAUTION IS ADVISED…
The first six weeks of 1947 were marked by a bitterly cold winter.
The nation was just starting to recover from the Second World War, but heavy snowfall across the UK had brought many towns and villages to a standstill.
Standon Farm Approved School was in an isolated part of the West Midlands, around 12 miles north of Stafford.
Over 60 years earlier, Standon Farm Hall, as it was then, was certified as an industrial school in 1885 and owned by the Church of England Waif and Stray Society.
Industrial schools were set up with the intention of housing and supporting children who were experiencing homelessness or extreme poverty.
At the schools, they would be taught a trade in the hopes that it kept them away from a life of crime.
By 1926, Standon Farm became a voluntary home for teenage boys, and in 1938, it was certified as an intermediate approved school.
The boys sent to Standon were considered to be in the middle stream of what was called juvenile delinquents.
They were too young or unsuitable to be sent to a borstal.
The first six weeks of 1947 were marked by a bitterly cold winter.
The nation was just starting to recover from the Second World War, but heavy snowfall across the UK had brought many towns and villages to a standstill.
Standon Farm Approved School was in an isolated part of the West Midlands, around 12 miles north of Stafford.
Over 60 years earlier, Standon Farm Hall, as it was then, was certified as an industrial school in 1885 and owned by the Church of England Waif and Stray Society.
Industrial schools were set up with the intention of housing and supporting children who were experiencing homelessness or extreme poverty.
At the schools, they would be taught a trade in the hopes that it kept them away from a life of crime.
By 1926, Standon Farm became a voluntary home for teenage boys, and in 1938, it was certified as an intermediate approved school.
The boys sent to Standon were considered to be in the middle stream of what was called juvenile delinquents.
They were too young or unsuitable to be sent to a borstal.
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