St. Godric's RC School and Convent of Mercy, Durham City.
Watercolour. Image taken from an Internet image. This would have been late 60s, early 70s. As Corporative Terrace has been demolished. My old school. My teachers, the Sisters of Mercy, we're loving and kind. In the 50s there was a regular stream of 'tramps', as they then were, coming through the playground, knocking on the convent door and being given refreshment by the nuns. Sister Mary Gabriel was the headmistress and I recall how kind Sister Mary Agnes was to me. You should never forget kindness, or unkindness.
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Michael Mcmanus
I was born in 1946. In the 1960s and part of the 70s I was an airman in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm. I joined Durham Constabulary in 1971. In 1999 I retired from policing and began teaching sociology and criminology at Durham University with emphasis on policing and researching crime. I am drawn…
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