I am so worn out now. I feel utterly powerless. I feel utterly utterly betrayed, see the post below.
I am going to just do a craft blog, just sewing knitting and other nice stuff, I can't fight the paedos any more, they are too strong. The Lord is letting the paedos have all this power, if the Lord lets them do all this what can a little speck of nothing like me do about it?
I don't know why the Lord is letting paedos get away with all this horrible stuff, persecuting the victims of paedo crimes, I just dont know, I don't know why the Lord is letting the Church of Paedos trash His holy name, I just feel sick inside about it, but its the Lords world, He made everything, so if He wants paedos to run riot like they are doing, what can anyone do about it? All I can think is that maybe the Lord is giving all the paedo gangsters a chance to repent, thats the only way I can get my head round all of this, thats the only thing that makes any sense to me. Because I know the Lord is kind, yet why is he letting paedos and gangsters do all these terrible things? The Lord either wont tell me that or I haven't got ears to listen, I feel so tired, so worn out.
I had another really terrible episode on Mothers Day, special days like that trigger weeping fits in me, I just go into a downwards spiral. The paedos would laugh if they saw me that day, they would think it was hilarious, they always did like to call me a nut job. I can't help it, I just feel so broken inside. I thought me writing all about what happened might change everything, but all I feel I have done is just make myself into a laughing stock.
I feel like I can't do anything to stop the paedos any more, its the Lords planet, its up to Him to stop it all, not a microscopic ant like me. I am so sorry, but I have had enough now, I just want to do my sewing and knitting and nice stuff.
44 comments:
All will be well.
Fear not.
You have many friends.
(Don't turn your friends into enemies.)
((((hug))))
This is a great blog which speaks for us all.
When we started secondary school the headmaster called the whole year into the main hall and warned us to walk home in twos and threes,
theye were not called gays back then, but poofs and queers, i cant undetstand why the government is now encouraging it all ?
just beyond me
Please please continue the good work, you have no idea how much use your blog is to those fighting the abuse and paedophiles.
Please carry on as you are and change nothing, it's vital to the cause, one day you will know just how vital.
A friend
I'm sorry, I'm just so exhausted, not coping very well at all, just keep ending up in a weepy heap.
My heart is saying to God WHY ARE YOU LETTING PAEDOS RUN RIOT, WHY ARE YOU GIVING SO MUCH POWER TO PAEDOS, WHY ARE YOU LETTING THE PAEDOGANGSTERS PERSECUTE THEIR VICTIMS?
Seeing that latest "Church" of Death and Bones blasphemer peacocking round in robes pretending to bless the nations makes me feel angry and sick. God knows what that horrible institution has done all over the world to innocent little children, yet He is letting them carry on and I feel like a piece of rubbish. I feel like a laughing stock, like you say, the Jew's "holy" books say its fine to nob small kids and swing for the same side. That isn't what it says in the Bible, but as the Jesuits have now taken over all the churches no-one can do anything to stop it.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT GOD? ARE YOU GOING TO CONTINUE TO LET THOSE BASTARDS SMEAR YOUR NAME? ARE YOU GOING TO LET THOSE BASTARDS DO EVIL IN YOUR NAME?
"(Don't turn your friends into enemies.) "
I don't deliberatly, but I won't water down my stance on paedophilia one iota for anyone, and paedophiles do NOT NOT NOT make the best minders of children.
Neither am I Carol Valentine, she's her and I am me, Barbara Richards.
No relation to that very famous singer who used to go to Elm House, before anyone asks. That wasn't his real name anyway.
I have never been able to talk about what happend to me, i only told my wife recently, when i found your blog i cried, the thought that you were giving up really scared me, how will i cope now ?
i dont know but reading your blog helped me and others so much,
its just letting the heterophobes win
Dave
In the comments section the question about a famous singer who went to Elm house was Jess Conrad, Cliff Richard and most of all Boy George, the sister house to Elm was Nimrod house and The singer with the pop group queen was seen there a couple of times with a black footballer
Tony J
READING THROUGH THIS DID TAKE ME BACK TO MY OWN BOYHOOD, WE HADA LOVELY OLD SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER WHO WAS SURPRISINGLY VERY SUPERSTITIOUS, AND WE WERE TOLD
TO ALWAYS KEEP HALF AN ONION IN THE POCKET OF OUR SCHOOL BLAZER, AS PROTECTION AGAINST HOMOSEXUALS
we must support you in the battle which is really all our battle
a boy in my class aged 10 was abused by a gay teacher, several of us phoned ester ranzen and she said theye were too busy right now
I promise you that behind the scenes a lot of people are fighting hard, to expose the paedophiles, their web of sickness is coming undone, we are so near the end.
Please take heart from knowing that you have become very much a focal point for us, the things you post point us in the right direction, and we use a lot if it.
Your vital to the end game for us, one day you will know just how vital, but I believe truly that god is guiding you to help us, it's all in his plan, and you can't hide from god, you being here posting your links and news is his will, your story is powerful and known by many, we have all been through much the same style of abuse and persecution.
Why do you think they keep pestering you and persecuting you, it's because your such an important part of the fight against them.
A friend
I'm sorry, I didn't realise, I thought hardly anyone was reading this blog, since I shouted at John Hemming MP in Stoke that time.
I've made several very important posts, these are two of the most important ones I think I have made, this one:
http://zoompad.blogspot.com/2011/07/david-cameron-was-on-select-committee.html
(Tom Watson MP was also involved in this, he was at one of the Select Committee meetings, I have challenged him about this several timesw on Twitter but he doesn't want to talk about it. I think that is disgraceful)
and this one:
http://zoompad.blogspot.com/2011/01/colin-tucker.html
I understand that Colin Tucker is now overseeing fostering at Wrexham.
I just feel so shattered. I have totally lost faith in every MP, not a single one has brought up any of this in Parliament. As far as I can see every MP in Parliament is covering up institutional systematic child abuse, EVERY ONE WITH NO EXCEPTION!
Tom Watson pretends he cares, John Hemming pretends he cares, Bill Cash (my own MP) pretends he cares, the truth is NONE of them give a monkeys, all they care about is keeping the lid on it all, covering it up.
I used to think Clare Short cared, but she is just as bad as all the others, I found out recently she helped cover up the Elm House abuse, she is just as bad as all the others. There isn't a single one of them of any political party that I would trust as far as I can spit now.
The "Church" is just as bad. The church leaders all seem to have to take some sort of oath to cover up institutional child abuse. Try going into any church and talking to any of the vicars (NOT ordinary people who worship there, the ones over them, the leaders of the church) about Pindown and see the reaction you get. Don't just take my word for it, put what I have said to the test and see what happens. I will tell you in advance how you will be treated, like a fucking leper. You will see the look of terror flit accross the vicars eyes for a second, then you will be told they will get back to you on this, but it will all be swept under the carpet and you will be treated like an insane nutter. I know that, from experience, I do not feel welcome in any church near me. I feel like a leper.
I can hear how shattered you feel. It pains me to think of the horrors you suffer and the frustration you feel. It is so important to look after yourself when fighting such a vicious force. I just want to encourage you to take a moment for yourself. It sounds like you enjoy being creative, indulging in an activity like this can give you time to rest your thoughts and clear your head.
I have only just found your blog but by the looks of it your actions and words reach many people who are hurting in similar ways to you. I admire your strength even though you may not be feeling it now.
Please remember that you are important not just to who you have reached on this blog but in your life as a person.
I hope this message goes someway to encouraging and helping you feel empowered to take time for yourself so that in turn you have the strength to carry on your hard but vital work.
I feel great admiration for you.
Anna
Your blog has helped many of us cope with what happened, but the reason you get no where with politicians is that we are now an occupied nation, the jews run us now and we have to folow their rules and to them its not a crime, and this is why we see no mention of it on the talmudvision or the daly talmudgraph, remember this Ed Miliband will be the next prime minister whether we want him or not
Some good comments here, growing up in the north of engand they used to say a piece of sliced onion in the pocket gave prorection from gays, but i think its an old wives tale.
I dont think legalising it will help, i still think the perpetrators should face a court.
Every religion condemns sex perversion the old testament actually said it should carry the death penalty, but we have the christian church full of abusers, even the spiritualist church has a capmpaign running to "clean up spirituaism" and now its legalised,
what of the children ? children must be protected, surely ?
Many church leaders are good and kind and helpful. Many need to do a lot more to sort out the abuse within their ranks.
Some of the comments on this page are so unhelpful, inaccurate, prejudiced, homophobic, anti-semitic and bigoted. Fail to see how this sort of hatred is doing anything to sort out child abuse. Violence and hatred breeds violence and hatred.
You take good care of yourself Zoompad. By all means continue your work if it helps you, helping others is always a worthwhile thing, but you have to take care of your own wellbeing too, otherwise you can not help others in a good, sensible, honest and open way.
Beware the conspiracy theorists and hate mongers.
"Many church leaders are good and kind and helpful"
It's not good, kind or helpful to cover up state sanctioned institutional child abuse, and the state persecution of victims of state sanctioned intitutional child abuse.
I am only speaking from my own personal experience, I am unable to attend any of the churches near me, because so far I have not managed to find a single one where the church leader is willing to treat me as anything other than a pest.
I am a victim of state sanctioned institutional child abuse and persecution, NOT a pest. Jesus doesn't treat me as a pest, so why do the vicars who run churches in His name treat me like one? They wont bite the hand that feeds them, thats why. I'm not being a hate monger by calling a spade a spade. One day Jesus is going to come back and say the same things, because He sees everything, all the hidden things.
I am knackered. I am just a big moaning voice in the night, that the bad ones want to shut up. I feel like a little animal that is squeaking in pain because someone has trodden on it. I don't know why the Lord is letting us suffer this pain, and it hurts, it just hurts!
If there are any church leaders reading this, may God speak to your heart, may God open your mouths, may God give you courage to speak in a loud voice to many people what we Pindown survivors and whistleblowers have been squeaking to a few. May God give you such an urgent desire to put righteousness before any other earthly consideration.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.publications.parliament.uk%2Fpa%2Fcm200102%2Fcmselect%2Fcmhaff%2F836%2F836.pdf&ei=ZFdJUcDAIKil0QWSsIC4CA&usg=AFQjCNG-5WK5x_cZ3y4DdUkaSzMU-0aAmQ&sig2=qADSo9oI26_xRhzX5v0VNA
Tell your congregation about that
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzoompad.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fdavid-cameron-was-on-select-committee.html&ei=t15JUbLfKqKX1AWi3YBY&usg=AFQjCNHp4A7s-LNqwTqs8g3ElBasbb5Rnw&sig2=b0ZXrKmP0CD1D3QfDrjC_Q
and that!
WE HAVE A PRIME MINISTER WHO HAS ATTENDED MEETINGS WITH PAEDOPHILES TO COVER UP INSTITUTIONAL CHILD ABUSE!!!
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fzoompad.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F07%2Fdavid-cameron-was-on-select-committee.html&ei=t15JUbLfKqKX1AWi3YBY&usg=AFQjCNHp4A7s-LNqwTqs8g3ElBasbb5Rnw&sig2=b0ZXrKmP0CD1D3QfDrjC_Q
JUST BLOODY WELL READ IT, DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOPR IT, READ THE BLOODY THING!
"we must support you in the battle which is really all our battle"
If everyone who came to this blog could just PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read the posts I did about Cameron and the 2002 Select Committee and the posts I did about the ex Director of Childrens Services in Birmingham COLIN TUCKER (now working in fostering in Wrexham)and then pass the links on to other people, that would be brilliant
We were talking about this one lunchtime in work, about why the police dont take it seriously enough, and we came to the conclusion that crimes against young girls they fo, like gary glitter, but boys as in elton john boy george michael barrymore etc they dont, becuase of the new laws which are pro gay
we all thought it was all wrong, all of it
I rarely post but ALWAYS read your blog
you speak for so many who cannot (yet) speak for themselves
I also share what you write with many others - things you write then get shared and shared... a huge ripple effect
I hope you can keep posting on here, even if it means you have a good long break first
Jim davidson is a freemason, as are many others involved in all of this.
Try googling lord henniker eye Suffolk paedophile, Peter richton lived with him for a while.
Try googling John Wills stowmarket, friend of both.
Try googling John wills paedophile ring, links to a three school abuse ring, reported in Suffolk newspaper.
Try looking at Kesgrave Hall, you will see the police cover up.
It would be handy if you blogged all of this info once you've checked it out zoompad, it's quite essential to the cause of getting exposure of the paedophiles.
Please don't give up, we are so close now, I had a chat with someone who said this is very huge and it's all going to come out.
Don't trust Eileen Fairweather, journalist, she works for the paedos like shy Keenan, we'd never have known before your tip off on the blog, your that important right now.
A friend
i dont care if the government has legalised it,
bumming off small boys is wrong
wrong wrong
Its hard to know who to trust, the paedos are so crafty, they will do anything to cover up their crimes, they don't care who they hurt.
I have no doubt that the only reason Shy Keenan has blocked me is because of Peter Saunders lying to her about me, libelling me, don't know wether Peter Saunders is just a nasty greedy moneygrubbing opportunitist or if he is one of the paedogangsters, but two things I do know, he is a liar and he doesn't give a shit about the Pindown cover up, and I know those two things from the way he treated me personally.
Same as John Hemming MP, him being on Mothers for Justice for the two years that I was being bullied every day by all the paedos (including Nigel Oldfield) opened my eyes to what a decietful scumbag he is. The paedos all snook onto that site, as they do all the grass roots anti paedo sites, and they tried to bust up the site as they have done to so many other good sites, it took me about a year to start to realise what was going on, it was a terrible time for me as I was fighting my corner in the secret family courts at the time, I could not understand why I was being attacked on that site, I had no idea they were paedos, I never dreamed anyone could be so bold and so wicked.
When I realised who Nigel Oldfield was I was so shocked and disgusted, and the most shocking thing for me was that John Hemming MP, who I had been trying to give the benefit of the doubt to, he had been so nasty to all us PAS accused mums, and I had shown him so clearly that PAS had been invented by paedophiles in America, that man has set himself up as a person who helps people going through the secret family courts, he is a liar and a scumbag, because only a scumbag could have done what he did, turning a blind eye to someone he knew to be vulnerable being relentlessly bullied by someone he knew to be a paedophile - there is NO WAY he didn't realise what Nigel Oldfield is, and when Stuart Syvret was "helped" by him I tried to warn Stuart over and over again about him, but Stuart didn't believe me, and that was horrible as well. I felt like I was in Act 3 of Swan Lake, where the swan is frantically beating her wings at the window trying to warn the prince of the evil magician, that is exactly how I felt.
I ended up seriously ill in hospital with pneumonia, the strain of all the secret family court persecution and the relentless abuse of the paedoscum nearly drove me out of my mind. I have a son with special needs, he is the son I was fighting for in the secret family courts, here in Staffordshire I am aware that there is a bunch of paedosscum that are targetting children like my son, so me getting too ill to be able to care for him myself was so frightening, it has just been awful. My son had a solicitor called Inderjit Thind from Birmingham, Cafcass appointed him that solicitor, he was a very bad man, a lying scoundrel, and my son was not allowed to meet him even once, not even when we had a problem with school transport - the LEA trying to save money, they wanted him to go in the school taxi that my son had had a bad situation with, they dont train the taxi drivers and escourts in Special needs and the taxi driver had tried to calm down an Aspergers freak out by threatening my son with a lazer pen. My son was off school for almost 3 months because of it, as the LEA just wanted him to carry on going to school in the same taxi, and he was too scared to. So all this was going on, and yet Inderjit Thind would not even meet my son, who he was getting Legal Aid money for, he wouldn't meet him or help him, all Inderjit Thind did for my son is try to wreck his life.
I dont know how I got through all of this, apart from the Lord, He got me through it, because what our family has been through has been a bloody nightmare.
I am 14 stone now, I put on a huge amount of weight, I have lost almost two stone, I was comfort eating, I ate to relieve the pain, I had to do something, there has to be some sort of comforter and food was mine, if I had chosen alcohol they would have taken my son away, I was finding it a struggle to get up and down the stairs, what with that and going blind, I had catteracts on both eyes so I could hardly see, thank God I can now because I had both eyes operated on, and that was a terrible frightening thing, to put myself into the hands of an eye surgeon when my trust was so low, I was terrified because I have been stabbed in the back so many times by people who are paid to help others, who get funding to do just that, so it was a brave thing of me to have that first eye operation as I was so very low on trust.
I have fought so hard and for so long, I just cant do it any more, I am so tired.
On Mothers Day I had a bit of a breakdown, I ended up crunched up in a heap behind the sofa, I should have been happy, had a happy day with my family, I think all the years of strain just burst out like a volcano, it was horrible.
I'm so sorry, I just can't do it any more. I want to be healthy, I am trying to lose 4 stone, I want to live. The paedos are so strong DONT EVER UNDERESTIMATE HOW POWERFUL AND DETERMINED AND UTTERLY RUTHLESS THOSE DEVILS ARE!
It makes me angry when people call it "Historic abuse", it isn't historic at all until it has been dealt with properly, just like Allan Levy QC reccommended about Pindown, because he said that the victims of Pindown should be given the best of help to get over the abuse.
Well what has happened is so sickeningly evil, because the fucking paedos have grabbed the money that the Government provided to help the victims of Pindown, the paedos grabbed the money and have used it to further persecute the Pindown victims and to make themselves even stronger.
Paedos are wrecking this country, paedos are the biggest wreckers. Stop blaming the different political groups, stop blaming different religions and races, because the paedos are multi cultural bastards, they come in all different shapes and sizes, all different religions. They get to the very heart of a thing and destroy it from within. Paedos are like a sort of cancer. They are masters of deciet, they encourage one another to be as crafty as hell. If you read any of their paedo encouragement books, this one for example, you will know what I am talking about.
http://www.ipce.info/host/radicase/
HOW THE BLOODY HELL CAN THE PAEDOS GET AWAY WITH WRITING SUCH A DISGUSTING PILE OF CRAP AND SWO MANY PEOPLE TURNING A BLIND EYE TO IT?
I have been called a nutter, a shrill woman, a crazy, unbalanced, a loose cannon, all because I haven't turned a blind eye to it, and anyone who blows the whistle gets a barrage of attack from the paedos, not just in your face attack either, some of it is very subtle, the paedo politicians use a much more subtle way of attacking people like me.
Yes I do get politicians reading this blog, I discovered that much during the days of the paedoscum Farce Blog. Why would any politician be reading the blog of a persecuted survivor of Pindown child abuse and not being so fucking angry that they were shouting about it in Parliament at the first opportunity? Because I know what I would do if I were in such a powerful position, I would be raising Cain to expose what the paedos have done and are still doing! But all that is coming from that House of Iniquity is a deafening silence on the Pindown child abuse cover up!
The paedos have worn me to a frazzle, they have stuffed up my health. Its the paedoscum who are running the secret family courts - they are the cancer behind it all - I am NOT saying that all the judges and everyone who works in the secret courts is a paedo, but all of them should have a good hard think about what they are doing being involved in secret courts in the first place, because secret courts are not legal courts in the eyes of God, they are kangeroo courts, just like the one that condemned Jesus Christ to die on a cross 2000 years ago.
How can anyone have a clear concience about working in or for the secret courts? Only very wicked people with bad stuff to hide would ever want secret courts, and no-one can argue that family courts should be secret, as paedophiles absolutly love secrecy, just like mould loves dark stagnant places to thrive, so do those fucking paedophiles, they are a cancer on the face of the earth, they need darkness to thrive, people had better wake up pretty soon to see what they have done, because soon the paedos will have so much power and authority that they will turn Great Britain into something even worse than Sodom and Gomorrah.
THIS JUST MAKES ME SICK:
Archbishop Welby offers to meet Tatchell
Invitation follows campaigner’s Open Letter
London - 21 March 2013
The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has offered to meet the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. He wrote:
“Dear Mr Tatchell, Thank you for your very thoughtful letter. It requires much thought and the points it makes are powerful. I would like to explain what I think to you without the mediation of the press, and listen to you in return.”
The offer to meet follows Mr Tatchell’s Open Letter to the Archbishop in which he criticised Justin Welby as “homophobic” for supporting a legal ban on same-sex civil marriage. He also criticised the Anglican Communion for colluding with local dioceses that endorse the persecution of gay people in Africa.
Commenting on the Archbishop’s offer to meet him, Mr Tatchell said:
"I am surprised and delighted. The opportunity for dialogue is appreciated.
“Within three hours of me sending the Archbishop my Open Letter, he responded in person by email.
“I commend Justin. His swift, personal reply is laudable, especially given how busy he is with his enthronement and with Easter next week.
"His willingness to engage in discussion with me is praiseworthy - all the more so because he comes from the conservative evangelical wing of the church.
"The plan is to meet after Easter. I will be urging a rethink of the church's opposition to same-sex civil marriage and an end to Anglican collusion with the persecution of gay people in Nigeria and Uganda.
“I hope our meeting will be more than just window-dressing and good PR for the church. I’m expecting a bit more than tea and sympathy.
"This is the first time any Archbishop has offered to meet me. Even a liberal like Rowan Williams never invited me to Lambeth Palace. Justin’s invitation is progress," said Mr Tatchell.
Institutional child abuse victims are treated like something the cat sicked up by the so called "Church", but arse holes like Tatchell are given the open arms "welcome, my son" treatment.
This is why I can't do it any more. Its breaking my already broken heart. I feel like God is spitting in my face, I feel like God is laughing his head off at me.
WHY ARE YOU LETTING THEM DO THIS, GOD? WHY???
IT MAKES ME FEEL SICK LOOKING AT ALL THOSE NASTY OLD MEN, SMIRKING AND PRANCING.
THIS IS WHY I AM GIVING UP.
I MIGHT AS WELL DO SOMETHING I ENJOY, SOME KNITTING, SOME PAINTING ECT, BECAUSE YOU BLESS THE PAEDOS AND THERES NOTHING ANYONE CAN DO ABOUT IT.
YES I AM GIVING UP. LET THE WHOLE WORLD BECOME PAEDO PARADISE THEN GOD, BECAUSE NO-ONE CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT ANYWAY, THEY ARE TOO STRONG AND HOLD EVERY ACE.
I am so sick in my heart.
I can't do it any more, I just can't. I have been trembly and stuttering all day, a very triggering day, because of the "church" hypocrites.
Yet God smiles down on them all, its like a complete mockery. I feel so upset and angry to see them all, but me being angry doesn't change a single thing.
I am sorry to all the people who read my blog, I can't help it, I just feel totally drained and exhausted inside. I just want to shut it all out, I have family, I don't want to end up in floods of tears again, its upsetting for them, and I dont want to upset any of my loved ones.
God is blessing the wicked ones, how can anyone do anything about it, if God gives those wicked people all the aces, what can anyone do?
all these comments supporting what you do, amazing !
i never knew there was any real boy-abuse at bernados where i was for 7 months in the sixties, a few bum-touchers and pants sniffers
but no out and out gays.
At a recent meeting i wa sshocked that several boys did get it up the bum but were too afraid to speak out
i wanted to thankyou both for what you do and the warning about aangirfan, a lot of people now know angirfan is putting up fake stuff, not just in saying pedos make good parents but all the nonsense they say about hitler who hada lot of support in britian throughout W W II
thankyou for all this
In the late seventies by the Edgware rd tennis club a slogan appeared on the wall opposite me
"CLIFF RICHARD IS A SHIRTLIFTER"
the council came and cleaned it off
but whenever we geta frosry day the letter appear back on the brickwork, something about a chemical reaction.
I have no problem about shirtlifters except this man would lie and lie on TV that he was looking for a wife etc, whata toerag, even boy george says he looks down on him
Dave Tesdale on his radio news hour
was talking about his time at the BBC, he said that poofery was so rife that men new to the job were taken to one side and warned about several of the staff, among the worst was comedian frankie Howard, Jimmie edwards was into spanking smal boys bottoms and this was written into his comedy " whack O "
the managers used to turn a complete deaf ear to any boy-nobbing going on at the beeb
I remember that Jimmy Edwards program Whacko, and I remember as a child feeling horrible inside when it was on, this is the Wiki entry about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whack-O!
Whack-O! was a British sitcom TV series starring Jimmy Edwards, written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden, and broadcast from 1956 to 1960 and 1971 to 1972.
The series (in black and white) ran on the BBC from 1956 to 1960 and (in colour) from 1971 to 1972. Edwards took the part of Professor James Edwards, M.A., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing headmaster who tyrannised staff and children at Chiselbury public school (described in the opening titles as "for the sons of Gentlefolk"). The Edwards character bore more than a passing resemblance to Sergeant Bilko as he tried to swindle the children out of their pocket money to finance his many schemes.
The first six episodes were subtitled "Six of the Best". In 1959 a film was made based on the show, called Bottoms Up!. The series was revived in colour with updated scripts in 1971-1972, slightly retitled Whacko!. In all, it ran for a total of 60 episodes, with 47 of B&W and 13 colour, of 30 minutes each. There were three special shorts. There was also a radio version, on the Light Programme, 45 episodes of 30 minutes broadcast from May 1961 till July 1963.
The front of the historic house of Great Fosters was used in the opening title sequence of the TV comedy series behind the name of the fictional Chiselbury School.[1]
Professor James Edwards played by Jimmy Edwards
Mr Oliver Pettigrew played by Arthur Howard in 1956-60 and Julian Orchard in 1971
Mr F.D. Price Whittaker played by Kenneth Cope
Mr S.A. Smallpiece played by Norman Bird
Lumley (a pupil) played by John Stirling
Mr R.P. Tench played by Peter Glaze
Mr Halliforth played by Edwin Apps in 1956-60 and Peter Greene in 1971
Parker played by David Langford
Mr Forbes played by Keith Smith
Mr Proctor played by Brian Rawlinson
Mr Dinwiddie played by Gordon Phillot in 1956-60 and Harold Bennett in 1971
Mr Cope-Willoughby played by Frank Raymond
Matron played by Barbra Archer, Liz Fraser and by Charlotte Mitchell
Taplow played by Gary Warren in 1971
Potter played by Greg Smith in 1971
Clodagh Rodgers appeared as herself during the colour series in 1971.
My instincts as a child are turning out to have a lot of substance. I didn't like Jimmy Edwards, I didn't like my teacher Mr Walters of Doxey Primary School Stafford either, for exactly the same reason. They both made my flesh crawl. Mr Walters used to cane boys for fun. He never laid a finger on us girls, but I was terrified of him. He used to pat me on the head in class, I was the teachers pet and I remember sitting there hating him, hating seeing him whacking the boys. I don't think he realised how I hated him. Little children are so vulnerable, adults are like giants, he was a big man and I was a little girl.
I think there is something bloody peculiar about grown men making a comedy series based on spanking little boys, I thought it as a child but you dont have the mental ability as a child to analise stuff like that, and in those days the television people were on a pedestal, especially the BBC, if something was on telly people (until Mary Whitehouse came along) accepted it as ok. It wasnt ok though, and I expect that is why the reruns of Whacko aren't being shown on television, wheras other old TV serieses are.
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