Charney Hall School, Grange-over-Sands

Update 25 March 2024 : KS Photographs added after visit on 24 March 2024 Thanks and credit for the photographs and information in the exhibition contained  in this post are due to The Ruskin Museum, Coniston Bluebird C7   For post WW2 schoolboys in the 1950s and 60s ‘Speed was King’ so Donald Campbell (1921-1967), following in his father Sir Malcolm Campbell’s footsteps, was a national hero. He set 7 world water speed records between 1955 and ‘64 and in 1964 became the only person to hold both Land and Water Speed Records in the same year. Wresting the world speed records from the grasp of the Americans was ‘de rigueur’ and regarded as proof that Great Britain was still one of the world’s leaders in advanced technologies by undertaking attempts on both world land and water speed records. Comics of the time reflected this fixation with speed, as well as space travel and aliens from other worlds within our galaxy. The Swift featured a series on jet aeroplanes both commercial and...

Blog update 13-3-2024 - Photo and poem added                                                                                                       Morecambe Bay from Yewbarrow ‘Face’   Charney Hall School and Morecambe Bay were inseparable. ‘The Bay’ as we knew it, formed the backdrop to all activities undertaken at the school. The French Impressionists made constant reference to the quality of light found in the South of France but to experience the constantly changing subtleties of light and shade falling across the sands was something else.  Some of the sunsets after a hot, blue-sky day in the Summer term were unforgettable.    Most boys learnt to recognise the familiar shape of Arnside Knott across the Kent ...

Post updated Aug 2021 Post updated March 2022 - my apologies re the text sizing which appears to have a mind of its own! Post updated March 14 2022 - more photographs added Post updated March 6 2024 - Photo 18 - Football XI 1966 or 67? added Post updated May 8 2024 - Year 1896/7 added Post updated Jan 9 2025 - Photo 18 Title amended, comment added  Recently sourced from the excellent article about the Podmore family by David Clapp with the assistance of Frances Limbrey in June 2015, published by the Cartmel Peninsula Local History Society*, this is probably the first Charney Hall School Year photograph in existence. Taken around 1896 it features George and Matilda Podmore, their daughter Enid, two of their sons Eric and Hubert, together with 22 pupils. The School Lists indicate the intake for 1896 to be 27 boys whereas 24 boys are scheduled in 1897 (This would include the Podmore’s 2 sons) and may therefore be the correct year.  *  https://cplhs.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...