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Q. I wonder why some people were against him
and had him sacked?
A. Well we had this young rector, he’d been rector at Ridley,
and all the time Lambarde had been here, he’d (Meyers) had run
the Parish for him, and then when this other one came here and
found Mr. Meyers so popular I expect he………and as I say the
Managers in those days had got absolute power in their hands
they trumped up this charge against him and dismissed him. I
expect he did cane a child. What I mean, when you’ve got a lot
like that, everyone more or less used a cane in those days, he
did occasionally cane a child. He went to Gravesend, he wasn’t
there that great number of years. He kept on teaching till he
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there was a terrific upheaval in the
Parish when they got rid of him. I went round the village with a
petition, and everyone in the village except one signed this
petition for him to stop on.
For the purpose of this transcript the questions have on a few
occasions been altered slightly to suit the answers better.
However the words of Mr. Fred Goodwin are as near as possible
his original, which accounts for the apparent lack of grammar in
his answers.
Mr. Sharpe is the owner of the school photograph elsewhere in
this work and is the second from the left in the back row. |