Since I did that piece on Geoff Burke last week, I have not been able to get the school off my mind. My opinion is that at the end of the 1950s and the early 60s the school was still firmly stuck in the 1930s. The staff by this time about 50/50 laymen to priests had few young bloods. About… (more…)
For my secondary education in Manchester I went to St. Bede’s College, the Premier League for all Catholic boys, having first of all passed my 11+ examination and attended an interview with Monsignor Thomas Duggan, the Rector of the College. It was a school run by priests with a good % of lay teachers. Its old boys were famed throughout… (more…)