School Memories at St.Josephs
I went to school at st.Josephs Salesian school a mile outside Burwash from 1939-1946
I recall there were about 10 pubs in the village and I stayed one summer with the Davies family who lived just before the church in a smugglers house where we went to bed through a hole in the wall .I remember the Hollamby's,Miles'and the Woodalls who were day boys.we all had some exciting and sometimes harrowing times during the war.I have been writing my autobiography with pictures for my family and recall a great deal of the eight years spent at the school.I was a Londoner I went there when I was 5 and my job was feeding the chickens helping hand milk the cows and using the shire horse to hay rake etc I spent 50 years farming through my work at Burwash.Of course it was a real village in those days,Last time I visited it was a vacant place with commuter jobs. and few real locals!!
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RE: RE: School Memories at St.Josephs
I now live in the old Presbytery of St Joseph's. As you probably know, the church is long gone and the school is a bock of flats. Do you know if the church was physically joined to the Presbytery?
Frank
Comment from Frank Chennell on Monday, 28th September 2009.
RE: RE: School Memories at St.Josephs
I now live in the old Presbytery of St Joseph's. As you probably know, the church is long gone and the school is a block of flats. Do you know if the church was physically joined to the Presbytery?
Frank
Comment from Frank Chennell on Monday, 28th September 2009.
RE: RE: School Memories at St.Josephs
Did the Salesians have a cemetery at St Joseph's? or maybe a plot in a local churchyard? I am looking for the grave from 1926 of a former Rector of the Polish Catholic Mission who is recorded as being buried in the Salesian cemetery at Burwash. Could you shed any light on this for me please?
Comment from Joanna Tobiasiewicz on Wednesday, 13th July 2011.