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Grimep I agree completley with you. when the original expose was done in the papers! it meant that the school closed in our o level year. I am sure this affected me massivley, Debenham did not want me in St James and so I was effectivley out on the street. Trying to find somewhere to continue my edu...

Grime thanks for the kind words! I guess i was a difficult child, as previously in a state school I had run riot and been quite a violent young child, this was i think largley due to the fact that everyone else ran riot too. I wanted to learn and you could not learn in that enviroment! I ultimatley ...

Ah yes i remember alistair Horscroft, bright lad I seem to remeber him beeing keen enthusiastic willing to learn and good at firearms drill and orienteering. Snowman you knew my brother John? I have pointed him at this place but he still refuses to speak about anything that happened to him at St Jam...

Nick your name rings a bell were you in the school cadet unit during the transition from St Vedast to St James? Did you have a brother there? or were you in the same class as my brother John? a very elequently put post. I agree completley with it all being a failed experiment where we were the guine...

Yes i agree. I think it was probably much worse if your parents were in the SES. My mother looked on them as well meaning people with a few odd ideas and a love of vegetarian food. My mother found it hard to belive much of what I told her despite my refusal to attend etc etc. Having said that she wa...

In reply to Daffys comments. i thought it worth telling my story of how I ended up at St Vedast and a few of my rambling thoughts along the way! I was there from 1979 in Queensgate till its closure in 1985. I think we have to take a look at our parents motivation and the state of the education syste...

When I first heard about the investigation in to St Vedast, I was quite keen to take part. I felt that while alot of bad things went on there, there were also some good things too and that it would be worthwhile to offer what I consider a fairly balanced view. I presumed all people prepared to speak...

I was shooting in Perth at the weekend and over dinner was asked about my schooling. i recounted the terrible story of St Vedast. But without namiong the school, A young friend of my cousins asked if I was talking about St James as her x boyfriend had gone there. She met him at St Andrews. From what...

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Tom Funnily enough Mr Howell left shortly after the transfer of everyone to St James. I went to his house once during the holidays as he tried to help me catch up with my Maths. I think his wife was quite in to the SES and so he had gone along by default. You are right, it never seemed to sit easily...