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Much Irish folklore surrounds St. Patrick's Day. Not much of it is actually substantiated.

He is said to have given a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes from Ireland. Of course, no snakes were ever native to Ireland, and some people think this is a metaphor for the conversion of the pagans. Though originally a Catholic holy day, St. Patrick's Day has evolved into more of a secular holiday.

One traditional icon of the day is the shamrock. And this stems from a more bona fide Irish tale that tells how Patrick used the three-leafed shamrock to explain the Trinity. He used it in his sermons to represent how the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit could all exist as separate elements of the same entity. His followers adopted the custom of wearing a shamrock on his feast day.
17 March 2007 - beside the blarny stone

MR BLOWER
I HATE TO PULL SENIORITY, BUT MR PERRIER BEING THAT LITTLE BIT OLDER THAN YOU I MUST INSIST YOU GO OUT AND ENJOY YOURSELF HAVE A GREAT DAY. I'LL HAVE A COUPLE FOR YOU NEVER MISS A CHANCE TO CELEBRATE HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRIAN MACSHAMUS PERRIER
17 March 2007

brian | skintagain@hardupcorner.co.uk
happy birthday little guy with a massive heart
mind you at your age your the daddy of us all
16 March 2007 - fantasyland

Dave Blower
SPOKE TO MRS NEWTON YESTERDAY,BOBS IN A NURSING HOME IN WARE FOR SIX WEEKS TO SEE IF THE HOME IS SUITABLE.HIS HEALTH IS GOOD AND AT THE MOMENT HE DOES REMEMBER HIS FAMILY.I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU WILL ALL JOIN ME IN WISHING BOB AND HIS FAMILY ALL THE BEST FOR THE FUTURE,AS A LOT OF US ARE INDEBTED FOR HIS WISDOM AND GUIDANCE IN THE PAST.
16 March 2007 - ON MY WAY TO A SIXTIES NIGHT IN B/HAM

Stephen Sheppard
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I have just found your site about Goldings. I've been reading about the first boys and how they entered Goldings for the first time. I can remember how I arrived the first time and although I lived in Goldings from 1958 -1966 I was not a Goldings boy but the son of Mr Fred Sheppard who was at first a teacher and later became Principal of the School block. My father passed away in April 2003 but never he forgot Goldings or Barnados, he was himself a "Dickies Boy" as a young boy in and after being in a foster home till he was about 14 he then moved to Goldings to learn a trade and took up carpentry, when he came back from the war he was offered the chance to learn a proffesion so he went to College and became a teacher. Having always kept in touch with Barnados he was offered the post of teacher at Goldings and accepted straight away. He later gave up teaching to live from his painting (Shortly before he would have retired) but whenever he held an exhibition he always insisted that a collection box be put out for Barnados and every year before Christmas he sent a cheque to Barnados.
I can remember a lot about Goldings and many stories, as a Staff son I heard a lot about the goings on in the school. Much later when we had left Goldings and I was a lot older my Mother and Father would often talk about some of the "goings on". Looking through the pictures and names on your site I can remember a lot of the staff some of whose children I played with like Mr Tordorf 's son, our neighbour or Mr Stackwood'son and one of the vicars sons but I cant remember now which vicar it was. We lived in the next to last staff house and after Mr Millar the head of printing died we moved into his house and lived there until we left in the summer of 1966.
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15 March 2007

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