Charney Hall School, Grange-over-Sands

See Roger Beaumont’s article in The Marketing Mentor.  Great stuff Roger, puts me to shame! Your description of Maxwell Duncan is spot on..... but you will know what tigers do when they are cornered....they come out spitting and fighting! http://marketingstrategymentor.blogspot.com/2009/11/great-content-from-friend-in-high.html Here is another reminder of how lucky we were! Beautiful photographs! https://grangeoversandshistory.weebly.com/history-grange-over-sands.html Let’s have more comments/photos please.....

Updated 14 April 2024: Conrad Podmore’s portrait added   The Gill, Duncan and Hirst families and their connection with Charney Hall Most old boys who remember Barbara Duncan and Alison Hirst, the wives of Maxwell Duncan and Raymond Hirst, will recall that there was a rumour that they were in some way related - they were sisters! The Gills were Fylde Coasters. The 1901 England and Wales Census records Barbara and Alison’s grand parents living at no.106 Hornby Road, Blackpool, a street running at an angle behind Blackpool Tower. Today it is a busy thoroughfare with many hotels and guesthouses which blossomed during the Lancashire Wakes weeks when Cotton was King. No.106 now forms part of the Beechfield Hotel which has evolved from a terrace of houses. Some of the original terrace appears to have been demolished to provide guest car parking, leaving the Gill’s house exposed gable end to form the end of the hotel block. John Gill, their grandfather was an ironmonger, born in Blackb