CHARNEY HALL Pupils abt.1957

Updated 22 Feb 2022 : Just found this wonderful photograph hiding away in an old ‘50s photo wallet! It was probably taken with a Kodak Brownie as the original print is minute so the image has a blurry, atmospheric quality….best viewed at arm’s length!

It reminded me of great times on the fell. Goodness knows how I managed to get this group together - my first and only impromptu ‘School Photograph’! Michael Coxey always had the largest net and the biggest collection of specimens! Kenyon was to return as an assistant master (I’m told by Joy Baszucki that it was customary for the staff to call trainees ‘The Boy’). Beaumont* (or Beamont) was the son of the famous test pilot, Roland Beamont**. I once saw an English Electric Lightning Fighter, an amazing machine with twin vertically mounted turbo-jet engines, flying low over the Creek near Lytham. When it reached the Ribble Estuary it tilted upwards at a right angle into a vertical climb, just like a rocket! (It could exceed Mach 1 in this attitude). I thought of him at that moment. Peter Beckett from the Isle of Man was sadly to die young, not much later in life, mountaineering in the Alps.


 https://youtu.be/BJYjXt5srZM  (The English Electric Lightning - Commentary in part by Roland Beamont)


 Michael Pemberton was from Ulverston but his father was involved in the oil industry so his parents lived mainly abroad
 Sandy Walls and Nigel Hargreaves both came from near Blackburn 
Watson and Race, Patrick Watson was the son of a vicar. He was sent to Charney Hall at the age of 6 which I think was a record!




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Tilak Paul said…
Hello Keith I have run out out of superlatives and adjectives for that wonderful find of a Picture "A Walk on Hampsfell abt 1955" It really sums up my great memories of walks accompanied by a Master on the Fells and also catching Butterflies in those nets (Though being a bit of a softy I could never catch a Butterfly!) The picture also reminds me of that great Black and White Movie of William Goldings "Lord of the Flies" in 1963 . This could be a picture from the Movie Set! Also great accompanying pictures . Tilak
22 February 2022 at 07:01
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