Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

sejintenej wrote:

LongGone wrote:Since this thread seems to have drifted to confirmation: did anyone else have a Franciscan? brother (monk, friar) act as teacher and confessor?

Brother Patrick SSF. ex floor salesman at the big haberdashers cum general store where North Street meets the Old Steyne in Brighton.

Vokins?

LongGone wrote:

sejintenej wrote:

LongGone wrote:Since this thread seems to have drifted to confirmation: did anyone else have a Franciscan? brother (monk, friar) act as teacher and confessor?

Brother Patrick SSF. ex floor salesman at the big haberdashers cum general store where North Street meets the Old Steyne in Brighton.

Vokins?

No, that doesn't ring a bell and the stupid thing is that I lived on the other side of the pub from it for several years. Perhaps it was all the beer so I couldn't read the name That was in the early 1960s

Putting my very old ex-plod hat on and doing some internet research, I've come up with this possibility !

Deacon and Co., Drapers and Haberdashers, which appears on records of Old Brighton North Street/Old Steyne (sic).

Ring any bells ?

J.R. wrote:Putting my very old ex-plod hat on and doing some internet research, I've come up with this possibility !

Deacon and Co., Drapers and Haberdashers, which appears on records of Old Brighton North Street/Old Steyne (sic).

Ring any bells ?

Sounds like it. Thanks. To recap, one of their staff became a monk - SSF which is the Protestant half of the St Francis monks.

I remember in LF (or maybe LE) history Kit was very insistent on the difference between monks and friars. Franciscans (like Carmelites and Dominicans) are friars, in fact they were the Greyfriars. CH was even founded on the site of a dissolved Greyfriars' priory. Detention, I think!

.... and monks cannot work in fish & chip shops !!

(I'll get me hat !!)