hi
does anyone remeber sister lucy headteacher of st vincents school she was such a lovely kindly nun has anyone got any photos they could post i would love to have one of her
thanks:)

ooo St Vincents, Im sure my mum went there. Mind you she would have been 85 now.

This may be worth a try.......
http://www.stvincentscatholicmenssociety.org.uk/

Sister Lucy was the Head Teacher of St Vincents when I was there in about 1942-47 she also taught my mother who was at St Vincents round about the end of the first world war. I think a Sister Catherine was Head then and Sister Lucy was new young nun. My Mom said that Sister Catherine used to stand at the top of the slope leading to the church and smack the legs of all the latecomers to school.
Siste Lucy was quite stricked and was not above smacking the legs of anyone who misbehaved including my brother John who often used to mention her. He told the tale of carrying a banner far to big for him in the church procession and on entering the churchyard stumbling and knocking S Lucy wimple off her head he said she smacked his legs as fast as she could catch him. Boys all wearing short trousers then.

As a child from the estates, as S Lucy called it, she would dish out to me my bus tokens to get home and any spare bottles of milk which she gave to the estate children knowing we wouldn't get home until later.
She ruled St Vincents with a grip of iron.

On my scholarship day I was late for school and I remember her anxiously waiting for me outside the room where the tests were taken (no slaps).
She tut tutted over me and fastenened my hair back with grips she produced from nowhere and hustled me into the room so we could start.
Not sure whether they waited or I was just in time-- but every success they had scholarship wise was prestige for her school. If she regularly got up to 8 children through their scholarships per yr she was delighted.
She had all my Mother's teachers back to work at St Vincents because her younger staff had been called up to join the forces, so she ran her school on what I suppose were OAPs

S Lucy seems to have been there through out the years of my family
because when my Mother was in Hospital at the age of 60+ who should be the sick visiter but S Lucy, recognising her name from 45 yrs back.

hazel

it was lovely reading your memories of sister lucy, i knew her in the 50's just before she retired and sister bernadette took over so perhaps she had mellowed tha bit then or perhaps i have rose coloured glasses on.mind you she did catch me reading a book which she deemed unsuitable and she confiscated and i never did get it back.
she taught my mother and my aunties in the 40's and she always was asking about them
lovely days

irene