Manaccan, St Manacca Church And Fig Tree c.1960

Photo ref: M19301

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 ...see more

Never went to the school but my late father purchased a goat from there. It had a pedigree as long as your arm. A number of years later someone who worked at the school turned up on our doorstep (over 100 miles away) to check how the goat was getting on! BBC showed a clip on Spotlight re what seems to be a goat show at St Gorran. They don't have details of where it was filmed but you can see it on the link below. ...see more

When I was at St Gorran my bed was pushed into the bow window in the photo, a refuge from the rest of life.

I attended in the late 1950's. I understood it to be mainly for children whose parents were abroad. There were 2 teachers - one I cannot remember the name of and the other was Miss KR who always wore corduroy trousers and had an Alsation or German Shepherd dog. She often hit me with a ruler for the most minor thing. The school was made up of mostly boarders and a few day pupils, of which I was ...see more