Harry Crew was Governor of HMP Askham Grange Prison between 1991 and 2000. He gives an account here of his early life and family history. An unexceptional scholar he left school at 17 and took up an offer to be the office boy at The Borstal After-Care Association where he became interested in how the treatment of young offenders had been developed during the early 20th Century. So interested that after a spell working with homeless families and voluntary part time youth-work in South London he joined the Prison Service in 1969 as an Assistant Governor.