Goodbye Master Stokes Chapter 2 Childhood s End
CHAPTER 2: CHILDHOOD'S END Morning assemblies at Newburn Grammar School were acts of worship. Weddings, christenings and funerals apart, they formed the sum total of my contact with the Almighty. In common with the overwhelming majority of my fellow pupils, I came from a family who considered themselves staunch Anglicans but didn't hold their creed in such high regard as to actually attend services at the parish church. They therefore got the best of both worlds, paradise in the...