Checking the sermon at St Elizabeth’s – by CL

St Elizabeth’s in Richmond and if you weren’t wise enough to get in the playground before you went into school that day the teacher would ask you what sermon was given and what they did they used to sometimes change the sermon, the priest, and deliver another one, so if you hadn’t been at the church you wouldn’t know and if you didn’t get in the playground earlier enough to ask what was the sermon and they knew which one to ask.  So again you got the cane for not going to church.  Sounds silly now doesn’t it?

I was an altar boy, we were all altar boys in the end, scruffy herberts, all scruffy herberts, well probably stinking ones as well we were in them days it was a bit different, the world was a little bit different.