I have very happy memories of the Convent. It was my first school 1947/49 and I well remember Sister Michael Mary and Sister Veronica who taught me the piano. I have a school group photograph of that period. I wonder where they are all now.

I was a boarder from 1953-1963. I too remember Sr. Michael Mary, Sr. Veronica, Sr. Mary Pauline. It remains one of my happiest memories.

My mother Marjorie Eileen Murrell went to a convent in Brighton in or around 1920 or so. There was a long driveway up to it and her mother took her there when she was little. She was a Holford grandchild and her mother left her and her other brother and sisters and went to Canada. Their names were Beatrice, Jimmy, Elsie, Dorothy and Marjorie (my mother).

Recently alighted on this site only to find some discrepancies with regard to the religious staff of St Martha's Convent. Sr Veronica was never a teacher, as far as I know, as she was clearly not educated enough. She did, however, become a sort of 'matron' for the senior boarders in 'Pax'. Sr Mary Helen taught Latin and also introduced the more senior girls to playing cards for chocolate halfpennies! Sr Michael Mary did teach 'the little ones' as they were referred to - what happened to her? Sr Margaret Mary left the Convent and the headmistress in 1950 was Sr St Gerard who was killed in an accident in a train as it entered the St Gothard tunnel on its way to Rome. A school party was on its way to celebrate the Marian year in Rome. I was a boarder from approx. 1943 - 1950. There were a couple of lay teachers at the time, Miss Feeney and Miss McGrath - any one remember? Fr O'Brien was the priest at the time and masses were held in the Chapel - no St Margaret's had been built yet. Chime in if you have any other information or memories - would love to hear from anyone.