Charney Hall School, Grange-over-Sands

 12 Feb 2025 : Post updated - 1917 War Diary (transcript added)   W H E Gott aged 24     William Henry Ewart Gott was born to William Henry and Anne Rosamund Gott (Collins) at no. 3 Montpellier Terrace, Scarborough on 13 August 1897. The Gott family had accumulated immense wealth due to the labours of his 2x great grandfather, Benjamin having become a leading figure in woollen manufacturing in Leeds at the start of the Industrial Revolution in C19.  They had 5 servants living in the large terraced town house located just off the Esplanade, south of Valley Bridge.                                                                                                      Montpellier Terrace, Scarborough - no. 3 may have ...

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...