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Coordinates: 54°13'51?N 0°39'08?W? / ?54.2309, -0.6521
Allerston is a village and civil parish in Ryedale, North Yorkshire, England, about five miles east of Pickering. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 309.
There is a village church, St Mary's.
St Johns Church, Allerston
During the 1930s, unemployed men were set to work in Dalby Forest, breaking ground, building tracks, and undertaking other heavy labour. The men lived in a work camp in Low Dalby, which was one of a number of so-called Instructional Centres run by the Ministry of Labour in order to 'harden' young men who had been out of work for some time. By 1938, the Ministry was operating 35 Instructional Centres across Britain, with a total capacity of over 6,000 places. By 1939, though, unemployment was declining in the face of impending war, and the Ministry closed down its work camps.
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John Field, "Learning Through Labour: Training, unemployment and the state, 1890-1939", Leeds University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-900-960-48-5
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