Nathan Okoro
Former pupil
“She sat beside me so I would not have to sing towards a face. Years later, she remembered which line it was.”
Memories
The archive
of voices
Specific recollections from fictional former pupils, families, colleagues, Sisters and neighbours.
Hannah Morgan
Former pupil and parent
“She recognised me by the way I worried a coat button.
Then she saw my daughter doing it too.”
Aisha Rahman
Teacher
“She admitted when a lesson had failed.
That made it possible for the rest of us to be honest.”
Sister Miriam Vale
Sisters of St Anne
“Catherine was prayerful and impatient, generous and terrible at putting things back. Community loved the whole person.”
George Bell
Parishioner
“The children visited because Catherine said an old story should not sit alone in a flat.”
The lockdown archive
Sent from home
Drawings showed a guitar beside a blue star, a mug next to eleven falling books, and Catherine sitting beside a frightened singer.
Recordings began with families searching for the right key.
No single item explained her; together they described a person people had actually known.
Contribute a memory
With Love & Remembrance
Share a moment that still brings Catherine to mind: something she said, a habit, a place, a lesson or an ordinary day you remember.