Mid 60s TV at Mirfield Revisited – By Frank McGinnis I watched a BBC music show the other night. The Monkees were featured & it brought back memories of the Saturday early evening shows we were allowed to watch. I’m sure those who were at Mirfield at the time can name all four Monkees (no […]
Hi fellow friends who went to Mirfield, Thank you to Mark and others who have highlighted the abuse that took place at Mirfield. It has always stuck in my mind what happened to me. I was told one night when getting ready for bed to go to see Fr Valmaggia in my pyjamas. The boy […]
Mick Wainhouse I wrote this a few years ago with Terry Aspinall, an ex-mercenary who wrote the book Soldiers of Fortune. It is about Mick Wainhouse who started at Mirfield in 1963 before being expelled in 5th year. Many of you will know him. He joined the Paras who took part in the Bloody Sunday […]
by Brian Hennessy Michael Riddle – The Gentlemanly, Grandfather Paedophile The Comboni Missionary Order has no record, it seems, of the Fourth Man of Mirfield. Whether that is the convenience of a failure of memory, or a contrivance, or simply because they have decided at some point in time to destroy his records, I cannot […]
by Frank McGinnis More Good Memories These stories bring back many of the happier memories of Mirfield. Feast-days were good as we ate well for a day (not so good for the farm pigs/chickens) and all washed down with real fizzy orange juice. Having no singing voice my job on such days was to hold […]
Jim Coffey I have just seen and signed the petition, of which I was unaware – better late than never I suppose. I have followed the brilliant, regular updates by you and so many others and finally get around to adding my tuppenceworth. I was at Mirfield from 1960 when the college opened until 1966 […]
Arrival at Mirfield In those days the train journeys were very long. My memory was that the train journey from Glasgow to Leeds lasted for 7 hours. It was the start of a great adventure. I remember it was a very sunny and hot day (aren’t all your favourite days that way?). Some of the […]
Comboni Missionaries During the 1960s and 70s, and possibly into the 1980s, priests and brothers of the Comboni Missionary Order (formerly Verona fathers) sexually abused children as young as 11 years of age at their seminary in Mirfield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom. A group of ex seminarians, The Mirfield 12, have successfully prosecuted a civil case […]
A spokesman for the Comboni Missionaries expressed “great sadness and regret” at the allegations and added: “Given the passage of time of almost half a century we will never know the truth of what happened.” http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/men-who-claimed-were-sexually-7984941 How dare they. How dare they call us liars. The Comboni Missionaries, the Comboni Fathers: Father Robert Hicks, Father […]
Comboni Missionaries This was sent to us anonymously by Boy X. In pevious articles he has told us of his time at the Comboni Missionaries (then Verona Fathers) seminary at Mirfield in Yourkshire. He claims to have been tormented by Bishop Lorenzo Ceresoli, who was then Father Lorenzo Ceresoli, and chased into the hands of […]
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