Let me introduce you to a new group, a pressure group if you like, who have resolved not to pressure anybody as long as things are going along the right road. We are Friends of St Bede’s College in Manchester (FOBCIM) or FOBs for short I set out in 2011 […]
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Comings And Goings At St Bede’s
With all the comings and goings at St Bede’s College in Manchester lately poor Mrs Sandra Pike dopes not know where she is or what she is. In one part of the St Bede’s website she seems not to have relinquished her tight grip on the school because on the […]
Historic Abuse Is Now At Bede’s
Yesterday after welcoming the new head of St Bede’s and offering him my best wishes in a posting entitled Salve Richard Robson, a prospective parent wrote a comment asking why I am so vindictive about the school when he on inspection found it so warm and wonderful. He asked me […]
Comings And Goings At St Bede’s College In Manchester
Well it certainly looks as though some of the i’s have been dotted and some of the t’s crossed at St Bede’s College in Manchester, where skullduggery has been the order of the day for the last five months at this once famous school. Ever since the Independent Schools Inspectorate […]
The Case Against The Salford Diocese, Monsignor Thomas Duggan and St Bede’s College in Manchester
Well events are coming along nicely in the case of alleged abuse of pupils by Monsignor Duggan, Rector of St Bede’s College from 1950 -1966, 16 years when unbridled sexual abuse of young boys was an everyday occurrence in the life of the College. Carefully picked and even more carefully […]
Danny Kearney’s Attempt To Right A Wrong
The article below was brought to my attention by St Bede’s veteran, Michael Lawlor, now a resident of the state of Ontario in Canada, but part of the 1947 intake at Bede’s making him one of my oldest correspondents. The article appeared in this week’s Tablet newspaper and shows Kearney […]
St Bede’s Opened Up
http://isiservice.devprocess.com/DownloadReport.aspx?t=c&r=GRT6928_20131112.pdf&s=6928 Well it has been made public and the above link will take you there. It is a damning indictment of the leadership of the School and in the areas that you would have thought most attention would have been paid. What surprised me was how much the school had […]
Even More On St Bede’s College In Manchester
Now we here at the Paul Malpas Blog have been very patient, almost kind to our old alma mater, St Bede’s College in Manchester. We have said nothing detrimental about the poor school in nearly three months, letting time take its toll. We have allowed Danny Kearney and his senior […]
Timothy Hopkins And All That.
I was alerted to Father Timothy Hopkins having all charges dropped by the Criminal Prosecution Service regarding his alleged sexual assault on a young girl at a previous parish. At the time of the police investigation he was parish priest at St Mary’s in Denton and also on the Board […]
St Bede’s College, Manchester And Its A Level Results
Yesterday I received an e-mail from a former pupil of St Bede’s which deserves publishing. Paul Taylor was in the 1964 intake, leaving in 1971. He had the unique experience of serving under three Rectors, the Infamous Monsignor Thomas Duggan, The doubtful and secretive Monsignor Geoffrey Burke and the genial […]