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Memories of A Choir Boy

St Mary's Church Font 1906 Ref: 55945
St Mary's Church Font 1906
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Seeing the pic of the font in St Marys brought back memories of my time as a choir boy there, part of a tradition in our family.  Our choir master was Mr Sellers a teacher at Geneva School also known as 'Jumbo' because of his large ears!
New boys were intitated into the choir with a ritual (including me) in which you had to run around the church outside, then hit on head with bell rope and finally thrown into the holly bush!!!  It sounds cruel I know but was done and taken in good humour by all and I enjoyed my time in the choir immensely.

Written by Michael Sheppard. To send Michael Sheppard a private message, click here.

A memory of Bideford in Devon shared on Wednesday, 11th April 2007.

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