The hotel we stayed in recently on our holiday in the Peak District, Shrigley Hall, was once a catholic boys' school, run by the Salesian Order.
The hotel has some blown up photos on display from the days it was a school and they brought back memories of my time at a minor public school in Anglesey, where I was between the ages of 14 and 16.
The last photo looks particularly sinister to me. I thought I could still catch the faint echoes of the screams of the boys being beaten along the corridor which houses the display.
The Salesians added a chapel to the side of the main house, which is now used as a spa that is filled with prosecco- drinking women. It seems somewhat sacrilegious, but times change, I suppose.
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