Life In The Country

A Memory of Cheeseburn Grange.

I recall arriving a Cheeseburn Grange with my mother. Sister Stanislaus met us. I would have been about 6 years old. I remember the large dormitory, the lady civilian Miss Bogie had a room adjoining the end. I remember McNammara, three Buzzio brothers. Sister Stanislaus in particular - the sister tutor - Sister Angela (very tall nun), old Sister Gabrial who died at Cheeseburn - did the laundry. Once we went to the Odeon cinema in Newcastle to see the film 'Song of Bernadette'. The Captains walk down to the stream where we played in the river - the washbowls outside where we washed in cold water.. when we left for Brunell Terrace, old fire station, I became ill - but survived. I joined the Army at 18 and spent 16 years in UK and overseas. Miss Bogie played the piano in the large school room with a handbell just inside the door. Does anyone remember me?