I went there in the 60s,can't say I enjoyed it much, was very very strict then,I remember Sister Monica, quite a tall lady?Taught shorthand?
Is this the same St. Josephs that was the reform school known as "Father Quicks" back in the day? (It later became Longsight Police Station) My late grandfather was forced to attend there after being thrown on to the streets to fend for himself aged 8 by his drunken stepfather. He often told me of the brutal treatment doled out by the "Brothers" who ran the place. He ran away to work on the trawlers at Fleetwood aged 14, then joined the army aged 16 ,where he was wounded and mentioned in dispatches. He always said that Father Quicks was worse than the discipline dished out by the army. http://manchesterhistory.net/LONGSIGHT/SCHOOL/stjoesind1.html