Visitation Convent

A Memory of Bridport.

I was a boarder at the Convent for four years 1954-58, cured me of religion as I hated almost every minute of it. The Nuns can only be described as brutal. I was once told that I was wicked because I had kept the other lads awake at night with my coughing. I always seemed to be ill and spent my seventh birthday in the sick room. I was friends with Tony and Nicky Book, we planned to escape, get a boat and row to France !!! There was a small garden at one end of the playground with a statue of the Virgin Mary, also some sort of plant that had buds which we crushed and used as itching powder down the back of unsuspecting necks. My.number was 4. I left when my mother and step father moved to the area where I have lived for the past 67 years.

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