Memories Of St Gorran

A Memory of Manaccan.

I can vividly remember seeing Miss Richmond & Miss Charlton...........Miss Richmond would whip me with a riding crop as I was a Anglican and not Catholic hence I was picked on..............they would make the boys drop their pants and inspect............if there were any skid marks there was nil access to ones sweets that were locked up and only given out once a day in ration form............goats were kept in abundance each child was allocated one goat to specifically look after, I had 'The Queen of The Herd' it's name was Flakey and during my time was getting very old with a bad dose of arthritis however she had won heaps of certificates at local shows in her day.I remember also going down to the beach and Miss Richmond letting car tires down as the owners had the temerity to park across her pathway...........jeez she was a ...... haha ............I remember taking the herd of goats out walking to clear pathways as they would eat anything..............I was very naughty and always in trouble however I liked old Reg that was the handyman who lived above the stables.........he drove the Land Rover whilst Miss Richmond drove the Bedford van like a lunatic telling all and sundry that she was once a racing driver..........one time we as a group of 8 or so were taken into Helston and I jumped into the back of the Bedford van cutting my head open on the roof which needed stitches that pissed her off and me being a protestant to boot.............I still have my school reports and other memorabilia that my Mother kept 'Bless Her' I never told anyone of the abuse thinking then it was the norm............got expelled eventually for apparently seting the stables alight!
Simon West

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