In 1876 the engine shed was extended to take two larger engines rather than one small one, the extension was carefully matched to the original building, apart from a difference in the cast-iron window frames. They even dismantled the original southern end of the shed and re-erected it on the extended shed (instructions on the original tender drawings for the extension, held in the NYMHRT Archives).
My biggest lesson from reading Raising Boys was that actually my teenage stepson' s behaviour was �normal� in any family and it wasn�t just because we are a stepfamily.
For decades people have thought that the only way to help orphans stay off the street was to put them in orphanages, which in many cases are nothing more than warehouses for children.
Once in an orphanage, the children depend on good hearted people to donate enough money, food and clothes so they can stay there. Rarely however do orphanages ever have enough donations to care properly for the children they have, let alone to provide for their education or to help them learn job skills. And they never have the opportunity to experience what it is like to be part of a real family.
