Charney Hall School, Grange-over-Sands

Lieutenant-Colonel, The Honourable Arthur Adolph Baerlein CBE, Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm. The family of Arthur Adolph Baerlein (b. 27 Nov 1886, d. 27 Jan 1966) (CH 1900-01) were ‘Manchester textile merchants, machine exporters, dealers in cotton and flax waste, shipping agents, converters, spinners and doublers’*. His grandfather Emanuel, originally from Furth, Bavaria had established a yarn merchants and his sons Max and Sigismund joined the business, initially operating from 18 Exchange Street, Salford. Baerleins also supplied their own Lancashire looms to the mills of East Lancashire and Manchester which were manufactured by Atherton Brothers of Preston. Max Baerlein married Emily Cohen from Rusholme in 1876. Their first house was The Limes, Eccles Old Road, Pendleton, Salford, where they started their family, and latterly The Grange in Withington where at one point in 1891 they employed 7 servants*. 1891 England Census In 1877 the Baerleins bought a plot of land at auction

Below are displayed extracts from Charney Hall Notes dated 1914 and 1927. They relate to information about old boys during WW1 (1914-1918).   I have the distinct feeling that this post will be greatly expanded in the near future… Charney Hall Notes 1927 In the 1914 edition the obituary of  Capt. T H Preston  (CH 1890-1894) who was killed in Flanders on 17 November 1914 records that he was the younger brother of Lieut. J S Preston (CH 1889?-1893) who died at Dewetsdorp, South Africa on 27 June 1900. During the years 1891/92 they were in the second set together at Charney Hall only 17 months separated them.  Sadly they died at the ages of 33 and 21 respectively.  James Bond - Ltn Colonel Cuthbert   Euan Charles Rabagliati  MC AFC Légion d’honneur (b. 1 Jan 1892 Bradford - d. 6 Jan 1978 Mouans-Sartous, France). In the 1911 England Census he was recorded as being at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, 19 years old, one of the many ‘Gentleman Cadets’. Having received his commission he jo

Louis’s original article in Cumbrian War Memorials provoked much discussion about Charney’s Memorial Hall and the possible whereabouts of the mythical WW1 memorial plaque.  Empathy is the last emotion that is bestowed upon the boys in a preparatory school who are miles away from family and home. We were all too much occupied with the struggle for our own survival! They say that competition is healthy - well we had plenty of that - in the classroom, on the playing fields, in the rifle range and in the school sports at the end of the Summer Term. Our parents saw a summary of the fruits of our labours neatly and concisely set out in our school reports - ‘could do much better’- can’t hit the ball to leg’- ‘doesn’t try hard enough’- ‘appears to be in a dream’- ‘is progressing well’…… what!! I suspect that empathy comes with love, with the responsibility of caring for a pet, with seeing others suffer, with having to deal with life’s experiences including death. Empathy is linked to the compl