New Zealand - Inglewood
- Inglewood High School
- Form 3A
- 1959
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Inglewood
- A town in the Taranaki Region of New Zealand's North Island.
- The settlement was founded in 1873 and was originally called Moatown.
- The name was then changed to Milton, before ultimately being renamed to Inglewood in 1875 to avoid confusion with Milton in the South Island.
- The railway reached Inglewood in 1877, connecting it with New Plymouth as part of the first extension of what is now the Marton–New Plymouth line.
- Until 1991, Iglewood was home to the Moa-Nui Co-operative Dairies factory (which was the fourth largest dairy factory in New Zealand) before it was shut down in favour of centralised processing near Hawera.
- From 1949 until the late 1980s, Inglewood was home to Fun Ho! Toys, a manufacturer of collectible die cast metal toys and one of New Zealand‘s largest toy companies.
- The factory shut down in 1987 but a museum in the town still exists with over 3000 toys on display.
- Despite its small population, the town has gained notoriety from a string of violent crimes which tend toward the gruesome, bizarre and barbaric.
- A 2015 book by the anthropologist Michael D. Jackson refers to “Inglewood’s violent past” and "the popular claim that Inglewood is the ‘murder capital’ and ‘psychopathic centre’ of New Zealand”.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglewood,_New_Zealand)