RugbyCongratulations to

Chris Gemmell

(Yr11 M) who was

selected to play for

England U16s in

the Four Nations

Tour nament versus

Wales, France and

Italy held in Wales

from 6–16 April.

Chris is a fullback/winger. He played the

whole match against Italy, scoring England’s

only try, and half the game against France.

Modern PentathlonRoberta Jenkinson (Yr11 Carr) is in training

for the 2012 Olympic Games. She repre-

sented Great Britain in the

Olympic Hopes competition in

the Czech Republic last year.

She hopes to take part in the

Youth Olympics in Japan in

2010, as well as London 2012.

Ar the last GB training camp she

beat the current Olympic silver medalist in

the Run and Shoot disciplines.

May 2009

No. 55

staying in touch with Old Giggleswickians

Fairytale Ends in Coventry forValiant Gigg.

Giggleswick 15-33 John Cleveland College

Over 150 pupils, OGs, parents and staff took

a trip down to Coventry on Sunday 15 March

to support the 1st XV in the Daily Mail Vase

Semi-Finals against John Cleveland College

from Leicestershire. The 1st XV’s run in the

competition included wins against

Stonyhurst (10-8) – a match played under

lights at Upper Wharfedale in truly atrocious

conditions; a comprehensive defeat of

Bolton School (43-14) in the round of 16; and

a pulsating victory over Caterham School

(20-10) in the quarter finals. The team was

named Samurai School Team of the Month

for February 2009.

This was the first time any Giggleswick

team had gone so far in a national competi-

tion and all Giggleswickians present were

immensely proud of them. Director of Sport,

David Muckalt, said, ‘I am so proud of the

players and what they have achieved this

year… They have certainly enhanced the

reputation our great little school.’

Read the full match report on p11.

Giggleswick on the national scene…

Drama – Sad Since TuesdaySad Si nce Tues day , an A Level devised performance, was selected for the Sunday Ti mes

Nati o nal Student Drama Fes ti v al , held in Scarborough from 28 March–3 April this year. A team

of a dozen theatre professionals this year considered 88 productions for performance at the Festival

and only twelve were selected. The Director of the Festival, Holly Kendrick, came to see Sad Since

Tuesday herself and was very complimentary.

What makes this truly exceptional for Giggleswick students is the fact that theirs was the only

school production to take part and they were competing against undergraduates reading Theatre

Studies at university.This festival is the single most important national student drama event of the

year. It provides a creative springboard for new writers, directors, actors and musicians; often work

premiered at this event tours nationally and internationally to critical acclaim.

Sad Since Tuesday was devised and performed by Thomas Coxon, Chloe Crenigan, and Dominic

Blake, collectively with the With Wings Theatre Company. The creative team included Lettie Ball as

technician and press representative, Grace Coupland responsible for make-up and Christian Eccles-

Cannon, Tom Figgins and Thomas Harrison, who composed an original musical score to accompany

the production. The show is a beautiful, touching and physical exploration of Gabriel Garcia

Marquez's short story A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, which deals with the arrival of an angel

on Earth. After viewing a performance at school, local critic, Gill O’Donnell, wrote, ‘…the group

produced a highly effective, thought-provoking and balletic piece of physical theatre. The ideas are

fresh and varied, examining the notion of angels and our perceptions of life and afterlife, and the

style is adventurous and acrobatic… This is undoubtedly a stunning piece of theatre at any level…

These are stars in the making’.

Reviewing the whole Festival in the Sunday Times, Robert Hewison wrote about ‘…musical

enchantment in Giggleswick School’s delightful fantasy about the fate of a fallen angel trapped in a

Welsh chicken shed… Led by the fearless Tom Coxon, the three performers and the musicians

combined to create an award-winning musical narrative’. In addition to the Judges’ Prize for Best

Musical Narrative, plus three judges’ commendations, the group was

also invited to perform the piece at the Stockholm International

Theatre Festival. The performance was described by the Principal of

LAMDA as one of the most beautiful pieces of theatre he had seen.

Individually, Dominic has been invited to join the National Youth

Theatre in London this summer; Chloe has had discussions with

Equity and been offered auditions by several dance companies; and

Tom has attracted much interest, including: an audition for the Punch

Drunk Theatre Company (the best physical theatre company in the

UK), a role in the London production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s

Nest, and a possible role in a new film about knife crime in Northern schools being produced by the

producer of the TV series Red Riding; he will also perform in the ensemble cast production created at

the NSDF and, as a result, will rehearse a brand new play by Chris Thorpe in Oxford for the Latitude

Festival.

Visitors are most welcome. Please contact the school for further details on 01729 893000.

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DATES for YOUR DIARY23 May Speech Day

09.45 Commemoration Service in ChapelPreacher: The Ven David Garnett (OG)Archdeacon of Chesterfield

11.30 Speeches and Prize GivingChief Guest: The Lord Shuttleworth

14.00–16.00 Sports Day

16.00 Tea

3 July Giggleswick Gaggle

4 July OG Day and Special Reunion for all formerpupils of Paley House

6 July onwards Higher Education & Careers Week

10 July Summer Term ends

6 September Michaelmas Term begins

21 September 19.00 OG Committee Meeting

3 October 19.30 OG AUTUMN BALLSee insert in this edition for details

12 November OG Lancashire Dinner at Pleasington Golf Club, BlackburnContact Anthony Duckworth on 01254 202088or on tony.duckworth@ntlworld.com

The Old Giggleswickian ClubFounded 1897

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

PresidentMichael J W Barr

President ElectRobert A Barker

TreasurerEdward H M Sissling

SecretaryJ Anthony L Briggs

CommitteeAndrew Fraser (Chairman)

Geoffrey P Boult (Headmaster)Robert G Drake

David P Fox (OG Liaison Officer)Chris W HarwoodNick W JefferiesAngela M MillsDina PejcinovicT Ian RobertsNigel A Shaw

Your History: Volunteers needed to

prepare for our QuincentenaryThe Foundation and OG Liaison Team is looking for volunteers to help us to digitise

and catalogue the School’s archive. If you live within reach of Giggleswick and can

come in on a regular basis to help with this process, we would be delighted to hear

from you. Working with the School’s archivist, Barbara Gent, you would help the

School to develop an online catalogue of its collections to help mark our 2012 cele-

brations.

If you would like to get involved with this project please contact the Foundation and

OG team on 01729 893 004, or contact sedriver@giggleswick.org.uk

OG Summer Placement 2009The Foundation Office is looking for an OG to join the office on a Work Placement over

the summer vacation. Not only would the applicant gain valuable experience of work-

ing in an office environment, they would also help us to further strengthen the OG

database and website.

We are able to offer a 4 week placement. For further information please contact

Andrew Beales, Foundation Director on 01729 893 008

or e-mail abeales@giggleswick.org.uk

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The Richard Whiteley

Theatre

In the few months since we launched our

campaign to build the Richard Whiteley Theatre,

OGs, parents and friends of the School have

rallied to raise over £743,500. Thank you to all of

you who have already pledged your support.

Your gifts have put us within reach of beginning

the first phase of construction this summer.

Should we be able to begin this work in July, the

auditorium would be in place for the Autumn.

This means that pupils could start to use the

theatre for productions as early as next term!

If you would like to make a gift in support of the

Richard Whiteley Theatre, you can send gifts

directly to the School, made payable to the

Giggleswick School Foundation, or give online

at:

www.giggonline.com.

Sir John Hare SocietyAs many OGs will know, Sir John Hare left the School in 1863 to go on to become one

the most respected actor managers and character actors of his generation. Everyone

who has helped the School by giving money to support the Theatre is invited to be a

member of the Society.

The inaugural meeting of the Society took place before the Spring Concert in March,

with Foundation Director, Andrew Beales welcoming parents, OGs and other support-

ers to a reception at Holywell Toft, where Mr Hare boarded as a pupil.

The evening was rounded off with an exceptional concert given by pupils and friends

of the School, finishing with excerpts from Carmina Burana, demonstrating once again

the rich talent in the performing arts at Giggleswick.

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The Special Reunion on OG

Day 2009 – Saturday 4 July –

will be for all former

members of Paley House.

Now is the time to put this

date in your diaries – we

look forward to seeing you.

More and more excuses for OGs to get together…

Following the pattern of recent years, successful

Dinners were held again during the Autumn Term last year

at Oakdale Golf Club, Harrogate, in October and at

Pleasington Golf Club, Blackburn, in November, organ-

ized with usual and welcome efficiency by Chri s

Harwo o d (CH/ C 6 4 -7 1 ) and Anto ny Duckwo rth

(CH/ S 6 9 -7 7 ) respectively. Commonly, between 30

and 40 OGs attend each event, with additional numbers

coming from Hon OGs, Governors and representatives

from the School, and in the case of the Yorkshire Dinner

(as for the London Dinner) partners are also invited.

Following last September’s initiative from last

year’s OG President Ni g el Shaw (CH/ S 6 6 -7 5 ) in

hosting an informal get-together at Shakespeare’s Globe

in London, several different events have since taken

place successfully:

● On 3 December this year’s OG President, Mi ke Barr

(M 7 3 -7 7 ) , hosted informal drinks and nibbles at

the Regional Offices of HSBC at Spinningfields in

Manchester (one OG drove up from Kent for this

event);

● Headmaster Geoffrey Boult then invited OGs to a

similar evening at the Royal Oak in Settle, where

over 30 OGs aged 18-75 enjoyed the informality of

the occasion;

● On 11 April the School had a small marquee and spon-

sored an Open Maiden Race at Whittington Races.

On each occasion between 20 and 40 OGs turned up to

reconnect with each other and enjoy time together.

President-elect Bo b Barker (S 5 8 -6 3 ) is keen for this

pattern of events to evolve still further, in addition to

the traditional dinners – see the back page of this

edition.

Lancashire OG DinnerPl eas i ng to n Go l f Cl ub, Bl ackburn

Thurs day 1 3 No v ember 2 0 0 8

Ken Ainsworth

Philip Ainsworth

CH Baker

Bob Barker

Mike Barr

Edward Baskerville

Christopher Bean

Alf Bracewell

Anthony Briggs

John Cook

Brian Cunliffe

Antony Duckworth

Robert Edge

Danny Garforth

Keri Gray

John Greenwood

Anthony Harwood

Dina Pejcinovic

David Robinson

Alastair Sames

Colin Sames

David Sames

Charles Shuttleworth

Edward Sissling

Frank Ward

Nick Westhead

Paul Westhead

John Whittaker

Frank Whittaker

Gillian Winter

Linda Campbell

Geoffrey Boult

Giles Bowring

Andrew Beales

James Bellis

David Fox

Mike Peek

Victoria Offland [Praepostor]

Yorkshire DinnerOakdal e Go l f Cl ub, Harro g ate

Fri day 1 0 Octo ber 2 0 0 8

Barker Bob

Barr Michael

Beales Andrew

Bean C H

Boult Geoffrey

Brotherton Mark

Buckingham E J

Butterfield C J

Campbell Linda

Crosby Michael H

Crossley David

Dent Adrian

Ellacott John

Fox David

Fox Margaret

Fraser Andy

George-Powell M T

Hargreaves Roger

Harris Charlie

Hartley G J

Hartley J A

Hartley S M

Harwood Chris

I’Anson Chris

Jefferies Nick

Lightfoot J

Lofthouse Mark

Lofthouse Richard

Lowther David

Lupton James

Moore S

Mordy John

O’Connell Jill

O’Connell Martin

Parkinson Michael

Roberts Ian

Roberts James

Tetlow Charles

Thompson A J

Thompson Ben

Thompson Robin

Vyvyan Izzie (Head of Carr)

Waddington John

Waite Anthony

Walsh Peter (Deputy Head of School)

Wharton Emma-Jane

Williams G

Williams Julian

Wilman Richard

The OG BALL proposed in the last edition of Gigg:news will be going ahead. Details can be found in the

insert in the centre of this newsletter. For this year only, the Ball will replace the traditional OG Yorkshire

Dinner. Please support this initiative by OGs Frances Gillibrand (C 97-02) and Angela Sutcliffe (C 84-88).

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In t he New Year’s Ho no urs l i s t t hi s

y ear, OG David Oddie (CH/St 54-64)was awarded t he MBE fo r hi s s erv i ces

t o wards p eace and reco nci l i at i o n wi t h

y o ung p eo p l e l i v i ng i n areas o f

co nfl i ct i n t he wo rl d, t hro ug h hi s

o rg ani z at i o n cal l ed ARROW. He began

this work in 2004 and today ARROW’s drama

workshops and theatre summer schools are

helping marginalized young people to express

themselves and to learn reconciliation. On 10

June 2008, in an ex tended interv iew for

Education Guardian (Higher), Dav id said,

‘Through the arts we can give form, expression

and meaning to our stories, our fears and our

aspirations. We can acknowledge past pain and

rehearse alternative futures. The arts have a

unique contribution to make towards relation-

ship-building.’

At a time when we here at Giggleswick are

striv ing to ex tend the facilities we have to offer

quality drama and musical experiences to future

generations of Giggleswickians, by building

the Richard Whiteley Theatre, David Oddie’s

achievements give us food for thought… He

writes as follows…

‘ARROW is exciting, especially as it is so

apt for the times’. I nearly fell off my chair.

These were the words of Desmond Tutu in

reply to a spontaneous letter I had written

him two weeks earlier. ARROW (Art: a

Resource for Reconciliation Over the World)

was a response in 2004 to the fractured

world in which we live – war in Iraq,

tensions following 9/11, racial tensions in

towns and cities across the UK – and asked

what can I/we do? Because I worked in drama

and the arts in education, I thought, why not

try to create a programme that sets out to

promote the arts as a tool for reconciliation and

peace building in settings of conflict? So I set

out to develop a global network of artists,

educators, young people, organisations and

institutions with a commitment to building

bridges across perceived boundaries and barri-

ers, sharing our stories, challenging prejudice

and stereotypes, using the arts as a resource for

reconciliation and the creative transformation

of conflict.

Over the years I had been inspired by the

work of Desmond Tutu in South Africa, espe-

cially his courageous stance during the

apartheid years and his chairing of the Truth

and Reconciliation Committee afterwards. Tutu

was clear that reconciliation was not the same

thing as forgiveness: reconciliation is a

grounded, sometimes tough, process that

accepts and wrestles with the everyday realities

of conflict. It may be the midwife to forgive-

ness.

Tutu had described the Truth and

Reconciliation Committee as a platform on

which people could share and listen to their

stories, and I thought ‘that’s what we do as

community artists’, so I wrote to him asking

for his support and blessing. When I had picked

myself up from the floor my first reaction to

his reply was, ‘Oh, blimey (or words to that

effect), I’ve got to do it now!’

I am a great believer in serendipity

and once we embarked on the journey,

key people seemed to appear out of the

ether. In the first phase of ARROW we

held summer schools and established a

core network of young people, artists

and educators in Plymouth, Burnley,

Palestine, Kosovo, South Africa and

Sierra Leone, for young people from

diverse cultural and geographical

contexts.

With help from a grant from the

Department for International

Development (DFID) we built an interac-

tive website through which young people in

these hubs could begin a creative dialogue

using a range of art forms. Information about

this activity may be seen on the website

www.art-peace.co.uk. We now have many

expressions of interest from other countries

and plan to expand this network extensively.

In November 2006 we proudly opened the

Desmond Tutu Centre on the campus of

University College Plymouth St Mark and St

John, where I teach, which provides a global

centre for this work. Our special guests for the

occasion were Ismail and Abla Khatib. Twelve

months previously their son Ahmed had been

shot by Israeli soldiers whilst on a raid in Jenin

refugee camp, the West Bank. He had been

taken to Haifa hospital where he died of his

wounds. In an extraordinary gesture Ismail and

Abla donated their son’s organs to the hospital

to be used for surgery – without prejudice.

Consequently, 4 Israeli and 2 Arab people

benefited from life saving surgery.

The gesture reverberated around the world.

The family generously accepted our invitation

to be special guests at the opening of the

Desmond Tutu Centre and to unveil a plaque in

memory of their son. Ismael spoke to the

invited guests in Gandhi-like, direct language.

He urged the audience to ‘teach our children to

love before we teach them arithmetic’ …It was

an address the audience of MPs, bishops,

academics, students and others would never

forget.

I thought hard about art and conflict and

began making connections. Conflict is about

human beings in relationship, and mediators,

such as American John Paul Lederach, also

identify an urgent need for innovative, creative

approaches to relationship building at all

levels of society. I compiled a list of headings

that appeared to be significant in the field of

conflict studies, matched these with exam-

ples of drama and arts practice and asked

some questions. For example, how can the

arts help communication across boundaries

and barriers?

I found evidence of some success in this

area, such as a pioneering project called

Breaking Barriers in Burnley, which

involved young people from conflicting

estates using theatre and film to engage

together creatively. Working across bound-

aries can be complex. For example, my

colleague Marina Barham in Beit Jala, the

West Bank, will no way under present circum-

stances work with Israeli artists. I understood

this when I visited the West Bank for the first

time. I was traumatized by the cruel realities of

Occupation: an intrusive and aggressively

growing wall, check point humiliations and

the invasive and continuing spread of settle-

Kosovo masks group

Bethlehem workshop

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ments literally into your very back garden.

Marina, however, movingly describes how the

ARROW Youth work in Beit Jala has enabled

young people ‘who normally throw stones at

each other in the streets, to find a common

voice through theatre.’

The idea of giving a voice is central to

ARROW’s intentions.

Desmond Tutu often referred to the concept

of Restorative Truth, truth that acknowledges

the painful past but aspires to the horizon of a

possible future, beyond an understandable and

justifiable, gut level urge for revenge. Our

grandchildren will inherit and inhabit an

increasingly shared planet, whether we like it

or not. For example, the work of our colleague

Jeton Neziraj in Kosovo, working on a miss-

ing persons theatre project with both Albanian

and Serb communities. When I first met Jeton

he told me his instinct, when he saw a Serb

soldier, was to kill him. He now works in part-

nership with a Serb theatre director, although

the youth and community groups they work

with will not work together themselves. In

parts of Kosovo the tension is palpable.

ARROW is now coming to the end of its

first stage of development. Arts Council

England commissioned an evaluation study to

examine its impact over a relatively short time

and to assess its potential for the future. The

Impact Study was led by Prof Tim Prentki of

Winchester University. Judging from evidence

in the report, the experience of being involved

with ARROW has made a considerable impact

on the lives of the relatively few participants.

Projects like ARROW are not about number

crunching and box ticking; all too often fund-

ing for projects is based on ‘how many, by

when’ criteria. Coming from a family of bakers

the metaphor of yeast is appropriate: yeast is

small in quantity but it kick starts the whole

baking process. Spiders web-weaving,

patiently spinning threads of connections

across space and time, is another appropriate

metaphor used by mediators such as Lederach.

Prof Prentki’s study indicated that the

programme was on the threshold of a new

phase in its development: ‘This report high-

lights the accomplishments of ARROW to date

and offers recommendations for a future in

which it could become a vital presence on the

map of world peace’. Another falling off chair,

blimey moment!

To move forward into a second phase we

have responded to Prof Prentki’s report and set

ourselves key objectives over the next three

years. One priority is to develop the art-peace

web-site; we know what we want, but struggle

to raise the necessary resources. It is currently

inadequate for our purposes; we can post infor-

mation, but it is neither flexible nor accessible

enough for young people to communicate

together across boundaries of geography,

language and culture. That is our first chal-

lenge.

Another target is to hold the first ARROW

Congress in July 2010, at which young people

from across the world can come together in

Plymouth for a week, share their experiences

and work with a group of diverse artists to

devise a presentation involving theatre, music,

visual art, etc, that is performed in the

Desmond Tutu Centre and taken to the streets of

Plymouth. We have expressions of interest

from emerging groups in Ethiopia, Rwanda,

India, Pakistan, Bosnia, Malaysia, New

Orleans and elsewhere. We hope the young

participants will then return home and be moti-

vated to initiate projects in their own settings,

which they will share through our enhanced

web-site: and in the longer term to prepare for

the next Congress in the Middle East, the

Balkans or Africa. We have probably picked the

worst time in the history of the universe to

raise the resources for this to happen. I remem-

ber an MP once telling me reassuringly that

‘things will get better when they improve’. We

have decided we can’t wait for that, so we are

just going for it.

The focus of work with young people will be

fed and informed by the research and teaching

activities arising from the mutually beneficial

relationship between ARROW and UCP

Marjon. For example, we plan to launch a new

MA programme, The Creative Transformation

of Conflict through the Arts, in Sept 2009,

which links directly with ARROW and a new

Journal. Our intention here is to build up a body

of evidence and case studies to demonstrate

how the arts contribute to peace building.

I hope ARROW can continue to be useful – I

don’t hold with panaceas, but it has certainly

transformed my own life. It has enabled me to

visit parts of the world such as Palestine and

Kosovo and develop enduring friendships. It

has been especially moving for me to re-visit

Sierra Leone, the country in which I served for

a year with VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas)

when I left Giggleswick in 1964. Sierra Leone

is sadly identified by the UN as the ‘world’s

least livable’ country. People sometimes ask

me about the irony of basing a peace project in

Plymouth, a city more renowned as an exporter

of fighting men. Sierra Leone demonstrates my

point. Troops and ships from Plymouth did

excellent work there keeping the sides apart in

the recent, savage civil war. But besides the

need for peacekeeping and for economic regen-

eration there is also an urgent need for cultural,

social and educational initiatives that build

identity, respect and self confidence. It is

deeply moving to read the poetry of young

Sierra Leoneans who have an aspiring vision

for themselves and their country amidst all the

poverty, violence and despair. There may at

times be a tragic need for weapons, but there are

times when we need pens not swords, paint

brushes not AK47s, so we can create a theatre

in which we are free to laugh and cry to replace

the theatre of war.

The invitation from David Fox to write an

article for Gigg:news posed a challenge of

reconciliation for me in itself – another one of

those falling off the chair moments; my life is

getting like a Buster Keaton silent movie!

Since leaving Giggleswick I have had little

contact with the school. During my twenties,

treatment for a distressing psychosomatic

illness revealed bottled up, deep feelings about

the harsh, Spartan regime of those times. I was

angry and I chose to cut myself off from the

school. However, time like an ever rolling

thingy passes inexorably and we mellow. I am

sure that Giggleswick now offers a broad and

humane education in touch with wider develop-

ments outside. At the end of the day we learn to

look back on ourselves and each other with

compassion and, hopefully, humour; because if

you don’t have a sense of humour, it just isn’t

funny.

Letters

WHAT WE NEED in the 150th anniversary year

of On the Origin of Species, when everyone

else is rabbiting on about Charles Darwin, is a

casually dropped conversation stopper on the

lines of, “Darwin learnt it all from

Giggleswick’s Headmaster…”

As a young Cambridge undergraduate,

Darwin spent two months at Barmouth in the

company of two fellow students, JM Herbert

and Thomas Butler (son of Darwin's Headmaster

at Shrewsbury, Samuel Butler). The objective

was a reading vacation led by a young mathe-

matics tutor from St John’s College, GA

Butterton, who was subsequently Headmaster of

Giggleswick. Darwin certainly visited

Barmouth on other occasions and Butterton

ended his days in North Wales (at Rhyl). I don’t

know why they both made a bee-line for Wales.

See the Complete Work of Charles Darwin

Online at http://Darwin-Online.org.uk where

the chronology from Darwin’s Jo urnal names

Butterton in summer 1828. Also see the notes

to Letter 42 (Darwin to his 2nd cousin WD Fox)

of 12 June 1828. I seem to recollect that when

Butterton retired from Giggleswick, he was

presented with a microscope, so Darwin may

have passed on some of his enthusiasm for

entomology to Butterton.

St John’s College, Cambridge, has a proud

possession of one of its alumni – William

Wordsworth’s copy of The History of

Persecution by Samuel Chandler (1736) which

Wordsworth has signed. It was presented to the

College by Butterton.

Ian Ro b ert s (CH/ St 6 5 -7 4 )

Bethlehem Summer School

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some time ago to mention one or two matters

about Gigg:news, which included the following

interesting Giggleswickian connections:

‘The series on famous old boys has also

been fascinating. The piece on Sir Douglas

Glover could have added that he and his wife

were great friends of Mr and Mrs Thatcher and

that, when PM Mrs Thatcher, who seldom

relaxed for long, did enjoy brief periods of

relaxation at the Glovers’ home in Switzerland.

The piece about the famous Archdeacon

William Paley (1743-1805) prompted me to

look again at John Maynard Keynes’ Essays in

Biography (1961 edition), which contains

individual biographies of Professor Alfred

Marshall (1842-1924) and his wife, Mary

Paley Marshall (1850-1944). Everyone who

has studied economics has heard of Keynes and

will also have studied Marshall, even if they do

not know his name, because he was the founder

of modern economics, including diagrammati-

cal and mathematical economics, and he refined

and clarified such basic concepts as ‘the

margin’ and ‘elasticity’, all to be found in his

Principles of Economics (1890). Marshall was

the mentor and long-time friend of Keynes, and

Keynes was a great admirer of both Marshall

and his wife.

The connection with Giggleswick and my

old House is to be found, of course, in Mary

Marshall’s middle and maiden name, Paley.

According to Keynes, she came from a long

lineage of yeoman farmers in and around

Giggleswick from the 16th century, “turning in

the 18th century into thrifty parsons and

scholars”. Her great-great-grandfather was

William Paley Snr., “…who took his degree at

Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1733 and was

headmaster of Giggleswick Grammar School

for 54 years”, until 1799. Her great-grandfather

was his son, Archdeacon William Paley (1743-

1805), fellow and tutor of Christ’s and “the

delight of the combination rooms”. One of the

Archdeacon’s grandsons was “FA Paley, Greek

scholar of the mid-19th century”, and Mary’s

uncle. Her father was rector of Ufford, near

Stamford.

In October 1871, Mary Paley was one of the

first five women students to go up to

Cambridge; they formed the nucleus of what

was later to become Newnham College. She

was then one of the first two women to attempt

and pass the Moral Sciences Tripos in 1874.

The following year she became the first woman

lecturer in economics at Cambridge, when she

took over the task of lecturing to women

students from Alfred Marshall, whom she

married in 1877. In collaboration with

Marshall she wrote a well-received textbook

for extension lectures, Economics of Industry

(1879). Thereafter, she devoted her life to

assisting Marshall with his research and publi-

cations, and to entertaining his students and

many visitors at their home from 1885, Balliol

Croft, Cambridge, up to his death in 1924.

Until her 90th year she worked ceaselessly in

and for The Marshall Library of Economics, to

which her husband had bequeathed his large

collection of books and papers. She herself

endowed the library annually with royalties

from his books and left it £10,000 in her will.

One of the world’s finest economics libraries

owes much to the indomitable Mary Paley

Marshall, who embodied many of the finest

qualities of her Giggleswickian ancestors.’

G Dav i d Wi s h (P 4 6 -4 9 ) writes:

I was very amused to read E Mike Thornton’s

letter of his time at Gig (47-50) [see Gigg:news

No.53, p.6] and would like to thank him for my

promotion to Sgt. I remember him well and felt

sorry for him that his rifle seemed bigger than

he was! I was in fact a L/Cpl and his Section

Leader. The three Paley House Seniors – Jo hn

Barnett (4 5 -4 9 ), Mi ke Hearo n (4 5 -4 9 )

and I – were told by CSM Ji m Bo wden (S/ P

4 4 -4 9 ) , Head of Paley, that he would promote

us to Sgts if we attended Corps Camp at the end

of the summer term 1949; but we had all had

enough of dear Jim, declined his kind offer and

left.

Mi ke Tho rnto n (C 4 7 -5 0 ) went on to

qualify as a pharmacist and eventually had a

group of pharmacies in the Poole area –

together with a string of gee-gees and a very

healthy golf handicap. A very keen golfer, he

even had his team hypnotised to win a big

event, which they duly did. He is the only

golfer I know who managed to park his buggy

in the top of a tree! He did invent some very

useful medicines and ran a wholesale business,

but with the air of an absent-minded professor,

he forgot to patent one of his inventions and

an unscrupulous manufacturer gazumped him

and made a small fortune.

I think the only highlight of my school

career was that I was the only cadet on parade

with clean feet at an inspection one July by the

Captain, E H Partridge!…

Vi c(to r) W Smi th (St 4 1 -4 4 ) writes from

Australia:

In the Nov 2008 (No 54) issue of Gigg:news

I was saddened to learn of the passing of two

old friends of my vintage, Dav i d Ang us (S

4 1 -4 5 ) and Al an Whi te (St 4 1 -4 4 ) . Always

the best seem to fall off the perch first: my

perch gets shorter and shorter…

For those of you interested, first a brief

synopsis of how I fared after leaving Gigg.

After two-and-a-half years undistinguished

service in an Irish regiment, mostly in what is

now Pakistan, I concluded my education with

five years at Edinburgh Uni and the Royal

(Dick) Veterinary College and became MRCVS

in 1953. I joined the Colonial Veterinary

Service in Nigeria soon after, there combining

business with my pleasure of studying the local

avifauna. The ten very happy years I spent in

that fascinating country prompted me to write

my side of the story in an autobiography –

Birds, Beasts and Bature – and I believe the

copy I gave David Angus is in the School

Library! In 1966 I moved to a job in Western

Australia. After a further 18 years working in

the Animal Health Laboratory, I now spend my

retirement in the extreme south of this enor-

mous State.

For a brief period in Nigeria I was

‘Veterinary Officer, Lagos’ – a thankless job,

mitigated by the knowledge that another OG

was not far away: David Angus, ADC to the

Governor of Nigeria. On our first reunion after

14 years, David reminded me that we had

formerly shared not one, but two schools.

Owing to the exigencies of the early part of the

war, his school (I believe it was called Ascham

House) was evacuated to Moffat in the Scottish

Borders. I spent one term at the same school,

the third one I had attended since the outbreak

of war, before preceding David to Gigg by one

term. After several meetings in Lagos, it was

another 20 years or so before I caught up with

David again in Tarrant Gunville, during one of

my infrequent visits to the old country. He

jogged my memory by reminding me of the

elusive orchid hunt – some rare species was

hunted for high and low, only to be found just

behind the school.

Born in India, a ‘product of Empire’, I spent

six years from the age of six in a boarding prep

school on the south coast, only to be removed

at the outbreak of war just before sitting

Common Entrance. This threw my education

back about 18 months.

I shared a study with Alan White and the late

Phil Baty all the time I was at Gigg. We kept in

touch for only a short time after we parted our

ways, yet I have often wondered how Alan and

Phil fared in life. Strange how the pleasant

aspects of life are retained most vividly; at

half-terms I was frequently taken out by their

parents, as mine could never make it to school.

Si mo n Peters (aka PM Si mo n – CH/ P

4 6 -5 4 ) writes from Mallorca:

‘Memories of my time in Catteral Hall are

rather sketchy – after all, it was 63 years ago!

The Headmaster was Cpt. Lincoln, just out

of the army and still in uniform; and the matron

was Mrs Weston.

I didn’t have a good first term and when my

father saw my report he said, ‘What a waste of

£75 a term!’ Somehow, at my entrance exam my

high IQ put me in a higher class than all the

other new boys; and after a month in IIIA, I was

relegated to the Lower III where I should have

been initially.

The weather in 1947 was well-known and I

do remember there being no soccer – just sledg-

ing competitions. I don’t suppose the food

could have been up to much, as in the after-

noons we had to queue up for a tablespoon of

malt. Sweets were still on ration and every

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month we had to line up with our ration books

and were allowed to buy 4oz of sweets or choco-

lates a week (like one tube of fruit gums!).

After Catteral Hall it was on to Paley… and

maybe some more memories at a later date.

P.S. Anyone else who was at Catteral with

me do get in touch:

wendypeters41@yahoo.co.uk

FOLLOWING THE OBITUARY on David Angus

in the last edition of Gigg:news, Go rdo n

Hartl ey (N 4 4 -4 9 ) writes:

‘The obituary of David Angus is most

poignant. He came from Shute to Nowell as

Head of House and proved a breath of fresh air.

I recall that my sentence for some dire offence,

such as having my hands in my pockets, was

not punishment drill, but to learn Milton’s On

his blindness, which I can still recite. It was

only after we had left Kaduna that I discovered

David had been at the Nigeria Police College at

the same time – only 42 miles up the road. He

later told me of the sad demise of another

Nowell OG who was there, Dav i d Bl ackl edg e

(CH/ N 4 3 -5 0 ) , who, it seems, dived into an

empty swimming pool, presumably ‘under the

influence’….

OG Cl ub Pres i dent, Mi ke Barr (M 7 3 -

7 7 ) , Deputy Regional Commercial Director of

HSBC for the North East, returned to School to

talk to current Sixth Form Economics students

about the “The State of the World Economy.”

Mike spoke for about an hour and took several

questions from the floor.

Current Head of Business Education, Stev e

Ro berts o n (7 1 -7 6 ) , was at Giggleswick

with Mike and was pleased to see so many

pupils at the event. “Tonight was great. Mike’s

talk gave our pupils a unique insight into why

economics is so important.”

Mike also recently hosted a reception for

OGs and parents in the new Manchester Offices

of HSBC. He has also provided work place-

ments and helped out with careers interviews.

If any OG reading this would be interested in

talking to pupils on a subject, or could help

provide work placements, please contact Sian

Driver at sedriver@giggleswick.org.uk.

OG President

explains Global

Financial Crisis

El eano r Dean (C 0 1 -0 3 ) now lives in

Vancouver, where she is studying for her

Master’s degree in Society, Culture and

Politics in Education at the University of

British Colombia; this follows the award of a

1st class Honours Degree in English and

Social Anthropology from the University of

St Andrews.

Dami an Candel et (P 9 5 -9 9 ) now lives in

Manhattan with his wife Larreen, whom he

married three years ago. He moved to New

York in 2004 to work for Poten & Partners, a

brokerage and consultancy firm in the field of

Oil & Gas Shipping; but has recently

accepted a new post with Overseas

Shipholding Group, also in New York, to

commercially manage a sector of their crude

oil carriers division.

His sister Rachel Candel et (C 9 6 -0 1 )

is now practising law in Houston, Texas. She

graduated from her American law school in

May 2008 and passed her American Bar Exam

last November. She is now an attorney with

Watts Guerra Craft LLP.

Greg Bo y l e (M 9 4 -9 8 ) is a Control

Systems Field Engineer for Bechtel on the

Habshan III Project, UAE.

Lucy Metcal fe (C 9 3 -9 8 ) is a Producer for

a new ITV show called 4 Weddings, having

previously been Assistant Producer on three

series of X Factor; she lives in South

London.

Ero l Mas ters o n (CH/ St 7 2 -7 9 ) lives in

the Vogelsberg region of Germany and is co-

owner and Sales Director of a company called

‘Alpha-label’. His younger brother, Nei l

Mas ters o n (CH/ St 7 6 -8 6 ) , lives in New

York, just off 1st Avenue, and is Head of

Investment Banking at Thompson Reuters.

Ri chard MR Smi th (C 7 1 -7 5 ) is

currently President of the Bradford & Bingley

Rugby Club and has been known occasion-

ally to get his boots on for their Vets side.

Kev i n-James Fenech (CH/ S 8 4 -9 1 ) ,

having completed his BA at Ashridge

Business School, has returned to Malta to set

up his own management consultancy firm –

FENCI Consulting.

Jo Sanders (née Ferg us o n, St 9 6 -9 8 )

married her husband Nick in 2007 and

currently works for Merrill Lynch in London.

Adam Uttl ey (M 9 3 -9 8 ) is an accountant

for BT; he lives in South London with his

wife, Liz, whom he married in 2007.

Kei th Pearce (CH/ St 6 7 -7 6 ) retired from

the RAF in 2007 and now does consultancy/

contract work, currently for Societa

Esplosivi Industriali (based near Lake Garda

and in Sardinia), for the MOD’s Freefall

Weapons Integrated Project Team and for

Loughborough University’s Systems

Engineering Department. He also had the

onerous task in January this year of referee-

ing for the RAF Ski Championships!

Harri et Ri dl ey (St 0 3 -0 5 ) , currently in

her 3rd year at LIPA studying theatre design,

hopes to move on to circus school when she

graduates, to study clowning.

Charl es Lamb (N 9 1 -9 6 ) is a manage-

ment accountant in the Consumer Purchasing

Department with ASDA. He is married with

two children and lives in Thirsk.

Rufus Turnbul l (S 9 3 -9 8 ) is a designer

and lives in Maidstone.

Natas ha Jo rdan (St 9 5 -0 0 ) is a graphic

designer and lives in Manchester. Her sister,

Rebecca No o ri (née Jo rdan, St 9 3 -9 8 ),

works as an IT Technician for the Jordan

International Bank in Mayfair.

Hug o Mi l ne (CH/ M 7 5 -7 9 ) has been

running his own successful NHBC registered

property development business for 19 years,

during which time he has been responsible

for the construction of about 50 properties in

Bolton. He is married to Anne and they have

two daughters, Chloe and Olivia.

Han Shi (N 6 9 -7 4 ) is now Systems

Manager for the Corporate section of KEO

International Consultants in Kuwait, where

he has been living with his wife and daughter

since April 2008.

Ang us Murray (CH/ St 7 6 -8 2 ) , following

spells in the army (he bought himself out of

his Commission), on the family farm (which

folded) and as an instructor at an outward

bound centre for the disabled, joined

Northumbria Police in 1986, in which he is

still serving. He married his wife Louise in

1995 and they have a son and a daughter. In

2006 he served as Sheriff of the Borough of

Berwick, the first time a Police Officer in the

UK has been appointed to such a position.

El l a Ki rkpatri ck (C 9 8 -0 0 ) is now a

chorus member with ENO at the London

Coliseum, where they are also keeping her

busy with small roles and covers. She will

sing the role of Susanna in Mozart’s

Marriage of Figaro for Opera Project this

summer.

Ro bert Leadbeater (P 8 4 -8 9 ) is currently

a Wind Farm Engineer with Airtricity, the

renewable energy development division of

Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE).

Peter Fraser on Ingleborough, December 08

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News…News…News…

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Alvis still alive and well in America

Sixty years ago, the headmaster of

Giggleswick School was one EH Partridge.

Almost certainly not the Eric Partridge so

famous for his various dictionaries of slang,

though perhaps equally scholarly and distin-

guished in a more traditional way.

In June 1949, legend has it that his wife

took delivery of a

new car – an Alvis

TA14 shooting-

brake. The Alvis

factory in Coventry

had spent the war

years manufacturing

munitions, and the

TA14 was a new

model hastily devel-

oped for the return to

the retail market.

Although Alvis had

been an innovative marque in the twenties and

thirties (notably offering a front-wheel-drive

sportscar in an era when some manufacturers

hadn’t even got their heads round front-wheel

brakes), the new model was built on solid thir-

ties foundations: Mrs Partridge’s shiny new car

had a chassis like Blackfriars Bridge, coach-

work in varnished African mahogany, and

tipped the scales at a ton and a quarter.

Curiously, it had left the assembly line more

than two years earlier, in 1946, when the chas-

sis had been sent to Bradford coachbuilders,

Waterhouse, for the construction of the body-

work. This delay may have been caused by a

shortage of materials and skilled labour, or it

might have been due to prudence on the part of

the new owners; in those years of austerity one

could avoid paying purchase tax on a new car if

months went by before the bodywork was

complete.

The shooting brake body appears to have

been a one-off; certainly it seems unlikely that

its idiosyncratic design was ever repeated. The

front doors were unusually narrow and forward-

opening, making access to the rear seat diffi-

cult and inelegant. At the back was a lift-up tail-

gate incorporating

the back window – a

true hatchback many

years before its

time. The sides, all

the way from the

doorpost to the rear

quarter, were so

completely flat that

they were panelled

in inch-thick match-

boarding, not unlike

a garden shed. There

was a saving grace – the smooth curves

imparted by the beautifully shaped aluminium

panels which formed the roof and the rear quar-

ters, joining the wooden side frames to the rear

hatch.

I like to think that Mrs Partridge had a great

time bounding about the lanes of North

Yorkshire in this car, as I was to do myself

more than thirty years later. I bought it in

about 1980 in Sheffield. It had been rescued

from dereliction by an enthusiastic young chap

with a pragmatic approach to conservation.

Mechanically it seemed pretty original, and the

exterior was more or less complete, if a bit

bodged here and there. He found the interior had

been gutted, so he’d reconstructed it using

scrapyard parts salvaged from some of the more

infamously tedious and graceless cars of the

seventies. Nevertheless it worked, and for

several years I used it regularly as family trans-

port and in my one-man joinery business. I was

living at the wrong end of the A59, but had

strong family and work connections in the

Settle area, so once again the Alvis became a

familiar site bouncing through the valleys and

crawling over the tops. We made a trip in it to

the Alvis works one weekend, we towed a sail-

ing boat to the Norfolk Broads with it, and it

even took us on a camping holiday in Brittany

(you get used to saying ‘dix-neuf-cent-quarante-

neuf’ pretty quickly).

By 1986 it had become semi-derelict again,

victim of my ambitious plan to ‘restore’ it

properly. Circumstances overtook me and

eventually I sold it, temporarily a non-runner,

to a man from Louth. Then late last year, my

daughter discovered photos of the same car on a

Californian website – there’s no doubt it’s

mine, because the accompanying history

included details which I had personally passed

on. You could almost imagine the photo shows

it crouched gleaming in front of Giggleswick

School. But, the whitewall tyres… not very

British, are they?

Simon Rickard.

[Perhaps some OGs may have memories of the

car in question – if so, do please write in about

them. Ed.]

Work Experience is a Good Experience for OGsThe School encourages pupils to find work

experience placements in their vacation time,

both at the end of Year 11 and in the Sixth

Form. The help of OGs in finding these place-

ments is invaluable.

Current OG Pres i dent, Mi ke Barr (M

7 3 -7 7 ) recently organised a work placement

for U6 pupil Lucy Rushton at the regional

office of HSBC in Manchester. Mike says,

“Whilst people, both customers and staff in

Manchester, may not know where Giggleswick

is, they are fully aware of the high quality of its

students. Lucy was a credit to herself and her

school.

Lucy showed great initiative not only by

organising her own placement with HSBC, but

also by the way she involved herself during her

time with the Bank employees. On more than

one occasion she was mistaken for an experi-

enced member of staff.”

Jo hn Si mps o n (CH/ P 7 1 -7 9 ) also

helped place L6 student Calvin Lee at Earls

Court and Olympia Venues in the run-up to the

Brit Awards. Calvin shadowed IT Teams laying

cables for the show, spent time working on the

IT Help Desk and even found time to watch a

few of the acts rehearsing before the show.

“Calvin was a very pleasant young man, and

we were pleased to help provide him with some

relevant work experience,” says John

Simpson, Business & Accounting Systems

Manager at Earls Court and Olympia Venues.

Having a pupil in for work experience can be

good for your organisation too. “Calvin was an

extra pair of hands, at a busy time;” notes

John, “Having him here benefited the depart-

ment.”

Last year, a survey of employers suggested

that employees who had relevant work experi-

ence placements on their CVs could expect

their starting salary to be up to £1000 a year

higher than successful candidates who started

from scratch. Recent evidence suggests that in

today’s job market work experience may even

make the difference in getting a job. This is

why the School’s work experience programme

is so important to our pupils.

As OG President Mike Barr points out,

“Work placements are key to the students’

future, as they allow individuals to gain a real

life view of what the workplace offers prior to

making any commitment. The choice of

employer and what they can offer students is

also key. You need to make sure you have a

programme plan and understand the purpose of

each placement day. However, it can be a really

rewarding experience for all concerned.”

Helping with careers is not limited to work

placements. Last year, parents, OGs and their

friends also helped with Careers Week . This

year, this will take place in the week commenc-

ing 6 July. If you are able to take part by

helping with interview skills, or by giving a

presentation, we would love to hear from you.

So , can YOU make a di fference?

If you can make a difference by offering a

work experience placement to a pupil, or by

coming to help during Careers Week, then

please: fill in your occupation details on

GiggOnline, or contact

sedriver@giggleswick.org.uk, 01729 893

004.

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Famous OG SeriesWe can make our lives sublime,

And, departing, leave behind us

Footprints in the sands of time.

HW Longfellow

GRAHAM WESTBROOK ROWLEYCM MBE MA(Cantab)

(Nowell 1926-31: Praepostor, Sgt OTC,

Style Mathematics Prize 1928)

Very few OGs have had such a truly distinguished career as did

Graham Rowley – explorer, archaeologist, soldier, public servant.

Born in Manchester in October 1912, the news of his death in

Ottawa on 31 December 2003 resulted in numerous tributes in

learned journals and major newspapers in both Canada and the

UK (see also Gigg:news, May 2004). Described in a long obituary

in the Daily Telegraph as ‘…one of the last true explorers of North

America, he was the last living person, apart from Royalty, to have

a river and a large island in Hudson Bay named after him’ (Rowley

River, Baffin Island, and Rowley Island, Nunavut).

After Giggleswick and his BA (1st Class Hons, NatSci Tripos) at

Clare College, Cambridge, Graham spent two years studying

archaeology and anthropology, receiving his MA in 1936. He then

joined the British Canadian Arctic Expedition and for the next three

years was engaged in archaeological and geographical exploration

in Hudson Bay, Baffin Island and the Foxe Basin. During this time,

travelling with his companion Reynold Bray and living and working

with the native Inuit people (who named him Makotenaq – ‘the

young man’), he discovered new islands; mapped the uncharted

parts of the west coast of Baffin Island, using a compass and a

watch and drawn on a piece

of Hudson’s Bay stationery;

crossed Baffin Island by a

new route; and excavated

the first major site of the

Dorset culture of the Inuit

people. These years are

recorded in his book Cold

Comfort: My Love Affair with

the Arctic (pub. 1996); and

the peace of mind he

discovered living with the

Inuit influenced him through-

out the rest of his life.

Graham joined the

Canadian Army at the

outbreak of World War 2 and

served in France, Belgium,

Holland and Arctic Canada.

He was a member of the

COSSAC and SHAEF staffs

who planned the Invasion of Europe on D-Day. He took part in

Exercise Musk-Ox after the war, a 5000km motorized arctic patrol

which demonstrated the peaceful applications of equipment devel-

oped during the war; he retired from the army as Lt.Col in 1946.

Thereafter, Graham devoted his considerable energies to the

Arctic region of Canada and its native people. As the first Director

of the Joint Intelligence Bureau he was responsible for co-coordi-

nating all research in the Canadian Arctic, a role he continued on

behalf of the Canadian Govt when he was appointed Secretary of

the Advisory Committee on Northern Development. As Head of the

Arctic Section of the Defence Scientific Service in Ottawa, he led

the research against the Soviet threat during the Cold War.

Upon retirement from public service in 1974, Graham continued

consulting, lecturing and writing (he was a member of the Writers’

Guild of Canada). He had Hon LLDs conferred upon him by the

University of Saskatchewan and by Carleton University, where he

established their programme of Northern & Native Studies. The

archaeological work of one of his daughters, Susan, on Igloolik

Island, spanning a decade from the mid-1980s, enabled him to

revisit former haunts, reinforcing his deep attachment to the Arctic.

Numerous awards were conferred upon Graham Rowley, includ-

ing the Order of Canada (1980), the Coronations medals, 125 mili-

tary service medals, the Massey Medal of the RCGS, the

Centenary Medal for Northern Science, and the US Arctic and

Antarctic Service Awards.

In preparation for this appreciation of GW Rowley, his widow

wrote the following: ‘I remember Graham commenting on how

important it had been for him at school that boys were allowed and

encouraged to go for long distance runs over the moors on their

own; something I think which was a testing of stamina and vision

for him. I think he would have been incredulous and delighted that

anyone would ever consider using him as a role model.’

By courtesy of Diana Rowley

By courtesy of Diana Rowley

Have you thought of advertising or sponsoring a page in Gigg:news?

Twice a year Gigg:news is mailed to all contactable OGs, a number which increases each year. They all have a common educational

background to you. Might it help your business, your company, to advertise to them?

This will help to defray some of the costs of publishing and distributing Gigg:news.

FOR DETAILS PLEASE CONTACT THE EDITOR AT: dpfox@giggleswick.org.uk or D P Fox at the School address.

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Sport

King Henry VIII Relays – Coventry

February 4th 2009The usual excitement and expectation of a tough race ahead filled

the bus on the way to these long-established relays, considered

to be the strongest schools relays in the country. Even teams from

the snowy south had managed to get there, so the competition

was expected to be tough. To add to the challenge, the course

made life difficult by being icy on the paths and very muddy in the

wooded section.

In the team for the last time, Claire Lilley was determined to

make her mark and Roberta Jenkinson was clearly in good form

after her third place in the county schools’ championships the

previous weekend. Between them they had seven years experi-

ence at this race, so knew what to expect. At the other end of the

experience spectrum were two girls from Catteral House, one run

between them, with Georgia Birley and first timer Eleanor Pickles,

fresh from finishing first and third at Sedbergh’s Rawthey Run 6

days previously.

Georgia set her steady pace from the start and although she

was almost last at the first corner, progressed calmly through to

ninth place by the end of the first lap, breaking Roberta's Year 8

record in the process. Roberta took over and set about chasing

down the field, moving strongly through to third by the end of her

lap and setting the quickest lap to this point and what turned out

to be her fastest time and the 4th fastest leg of the day. Eleanor

was now stuck in the tricky situation of being surrounded by girls

as much as six years older than her, but she kept her nerve, over-

taking some whilst being overhauled by others. Sixth by the end

of her leg, she handed over to Claire. With Millfield and

Loughborough GS well ahead, she set off in pursuit of the three

teams who were now a minute in front. She chased down the

Sedbergh runner, having to wait until the wider paths before she

could get past this first obstacle. By the half way mark she had

managed to close the gap to the next two teams ahead of her to

half a minute and managed to storm past these two before she

was back in sight of the final half mile. A flying second half did not

quite get her into the top three times she had managed for the last

two years and she had to be content with sixth fastest on the day

and leading the team to third place overall for the second time in

three years.

An excellent effort by all the girls at the end of the six year Lilley

era as the baton is passed on to Roberta and the younger girls to

maintain this tradition of strong results at these classy relays.

Alastair Scholey

Georgia Birley, Claire Lilley, Roberta Jenkinson, Eleanor Pickles &Maisie Spratt (reserve)

Skipton Rugby Club played host to the annual OG rugby fixture

against Ermysted’s on a bitterly cold afternoon in mid-December

2008. The opening period of the match was end to end stuff, with

an early defensive error nearly putting the visitors behind. The

sprightly Giggleswick side regained its composure, however, scor-

ing two quick tries in the corner. Confident in attack, the more

experienced Giggleswick team built on this lead with some very

entertaining rugby. While Ermysted’s fought hard until the end, the

final result was never in doubt and the trophy is now back in its

rightful place in school.

Our thanks go out to Ermysted’s, Skipton Rugby Club (who

also loaned us a set of shirts) and all the Giggleswickians who

turned out to play, watch and support. Thanks too to Stephen

George Powell OG who brought his camera along and took some

stunning action shots. More photos of the game are available from

Stephen’s website.

OG Rugby

OG XV 59 – Ermysted’s Old Boys XV 39

On OG Day 2008 the Bermuda Rugby Tour Reunion did

take place. Those attending met up in Top House on the

Friday evening and then made it – surprisingly in some

cases (or so I’m told! Ed.) – to OG Day on the Saturday. In

January this year Neil Robertson finally sent a few details

and some pictures:

“Attendees were:

Full Back: Mickey Barr (M 73-77) not a Bermuda tourist

but skipper the year before!)

Wingers: David Nordon (St 73-78), Neil Robertson (CH/C

69-78)

Centres: Duncan Read (CH/C 68-78), Gary Hartley

(CH/C 71-80)

Half-Backs: John Watkinson (CH/P 73-78), Steve

Hartley (CH/C 70-78)

Back Row: Mike Davis (P 74-79)

Front Row: Tim Shapcott (CH/P 71-

78), Robert King (P 76-81).

As you can see, we had a full back line.

I actually had a Catteral Hall Soccer

Photo from 1972 with me and 7 of the

14 people on that photo were in atten-

dance in June 2008!

Incidentally, I have almost made

contact with Martin Jackson (N 76-

78) so hopefully will drag him along

next time!”Gary Hartley

Bermuda Tour Reunion

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School Rugby

Daily Mail Vase Semi-Final

John Cleveland College 33 : Giggleswick School 15

Giggleswick’s dream of a final at Twickenham was snatched away

from them after a physical second half against John Cleveland

College. JCC has a proud rugby tradition, with many famous old

boys wearing the green of Leicester Tigers, including Dean

Richards and Graham Rowntree. With a number of their players

benefiting from the experience of an U15 Twickenham final, it was

no surprise that they started off the stronger of the two teams,

with two early penalties from Midlands U18 player, Joe Glover,

and a try from skipper and centre Stephen List.

On the 20 minute mark, Giggleswick hit back strongly, backed

by their noisy supporters. With the enterprising style of play that

has produced many a superb try this season, it was no surprise

that excellent handling from fly-half Nick Hyett and centre Sam

Bartlett, sent outside centre George Elliott in for his first try, a

move which had begun deep in the Giggleswick 22m. This

sparked the team into a wave of attacks, dominating the last 15

minutes of the first half. The second try, also starting deep in the

Giggleswick half, was created after a superb break by winger

Peter Walsh. Walsh, whose constant counter attacks from JCC

kicks caused their defence no end of problems, was supported by

England 16 Group full back Chris Gemmell, Giggleswick’s Captain

on the day in place of his injured brother Mark. Elliott was not far

behind and a deft slight of hand in the corner saw him in for his

second try to give Giggleswick a 12-11 lead. Two further chances

followed, but some excellent scramble defence from JCC

prevented any further scores in the first half.

The second half saw a major change in the way JCC

approached the game. Now fully aware of Giggleswick’s counter-

attacking ability and threat out wide, the Leicester Tigers forward

style of play was adopted. JCC were, by schoolboy standards,

enormous and the introduction of two monsters from the bench

meant that the chance to play a quicker wide game was going to

be problematic for Giggleswick, as the physical JCC pack starved

them of any possession. On the few occasions Giggleswick had

the ball in the second half they still played with width and pace,

but all too often found the energy-sapping defence at the ruck and

maul had left our runners isolated and provided JCC with the

opportunities to turn the ball back over easily.

In a very costly first 10 minutes in the second half, JCC notched

up 14 points from a catch and drive off a line-out and a forward

rumble of relentless pick and drives. Although the energy levels

within the Giggleswick side dropped due to the sheer physicality

of the game, the spirits never did; but it was our adventure that

was our undoing, as the win was sealed for JCC after a move

wasn’t executed properly within Gigglewick’s own 22m and a

rushing JCC defence capitalised on a loose ball to notch up their

third score in the half. A final flurry from Giggleswick saw them

rewarded with a penalty in front of the posts, which Gemmell

converted to bring the score to 28-15. Despite time being very

much against Gigg, it was again their adventurous style which

back-fired when a scrum ball deep in their own 22m was turned

over by the JCC pack, enabling number 8 Matthew Nurse to stroll

in down an unmanned blind-side, as the Giggleswick winger

moved out of position to launch another attack from deep.

Giggleswick’s disappointment after the match was summed up

by Director of Sport David Muckalt as being a cruel way to end

what has been a very good cup run. ‘I am so proud of the players

and what they have achieved this year. My only sadness is that the

dream of playing at Twickenham was taken from them right at the

end. They have been a cracking squad of players to work with and

have brought me and everyone that has seen a Giggleswick 1st

XV game this season many fond memories through the adventur-

ous style of running rugby they have played. They have certainly

enhanced the reputation our great little school”

The players were full of admiration for the supporters who trav-

elled the 3+ hours to watch the match and certainly won the

singing cup! With six of the squad finishing this year, Muckalt is

confident that the experience gained by the other players will be

massively beneficial to next year’s season.

Duncan Read & Steve Hartley David Nordon + Tour Bag!

Robert King, DavidNordon, Duncan

Read, Tim Shapcott

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Picture Conundrum 12In 2010 the School will be celebrating the Centenary of the formation of a Cadet Force at Giggleswick, where a unit of the OTC was established in the

Autumn Term of 1910 with two officers (2Lt CF Pierce and 2Lt FT Nott), four NCOs and 45 cadets. (We hope to have some details of the form this

celebration will take in time for the Nov ’09 edition of Gigg:news.)

Although the existence of cadet corps in English schools dates from 1860, with over 100 schools having contingents by 1907, the OTC nation-

ally had only been formed by Lord Haldane in 1908. It was succeeded in turn by the Junior Training Corps in 1940 and finally, in 1948, by the CCF as

we know it today.

Two years after the formation of the

Giggleswick OTC, the first corps Band

was formed in time for Speech Day

1912 and the 400th Anniversary cele-

brations of the founding of the School.

The Band thereafter played on Speech

Days – and on other local occasions –

for almost three-quarters of a century.

We have many photographs of the

Band, but few of them record the names

of its members. The Picture Conundrum

this time is of the Band on Speech Day

1960. Please can anyone name the

members of this Band?

[Answers, please, to the Editor:

dpfox@giggleswick .org.uk or DP Fox

at Giggleswick School, Settle, North

Yorkshire, BD24 0DE].

Henry Po urzand (M 7 8 -8 0 ) writes from California: ‘Thank you so

much for sending me Gigg:news. In a world inexorably moving towards

a paperless environment, I really enjoy every glossy, colour, hardcopy

edition. I have a little something to contribute, although I’m sure that

many others have already written in and solved the puzzle completely.

Picture Conundrum 11: centre (Andrew ?), directly behind him and to

the viewer’s left (Eric? Chadwick), far left (David Preston). There are

several others whose faces I recognize, but it has been about 30 years

since I was in Morrison with them…’

[The Andrew mentioned by Henry is Andrew Clements (M 76-81) – Ed]

Here again, can any OGs supply the names of the 13 remaining boys

in the picture?

To remind you, this was taken from a production of ‘Smike’ in 1978.

Picture ConundrumsReaders seem to have been stumped by the conundrums in the last edition of Gigg:news (or are

you losing interest?).

So we are running them again this time, with information so far submitted.

Picture Conundrum 10Ray Jo nes (s taff 7 8 -0 7 ) writes: ‘…the picture was taken in the playground of a school in

St Germain-en-Laye to the west of Paris. The school is the Primary section of the Institut Notre

Dame. During the 1990s there were regular pupil exchanges between Year7 pupils from Catteral

Hall and Year6 pupils from Notre Dame. The large tree in the background is a cedar tree, the

emblem of IND.

The photo features older pupils, clearly. They were a drama group, led by Michael Day, who

visited both Notre Dame Primary School and Secondary School. Names of pupils: Jonathan

Broadbent and Julia Hole, front row; Hannah Pennell in the white jacket; Hamish Foulerton

back left under the antlers. Date? – Autumn Half Term holiday 1994.

Hope this helps…’

So, can any OGs come up with the names of the seven other pupils in the picture?

Picture Conundrum 11

Picture Conundrum 10

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This page is sponsored by a friend of Giggleswick School in support of the

Martin House Hospice, Wetherby, North Yorkshire.

“It’s not often that a production leaves you

absolutely speechless… But the simple

truth is there just aren’t enough superla-

tives to express the sense of wonder and

admiration which this performance engen-

dered. This was not just Shakespeare; it

was Shakespeare as you always dreamed

it could be! In a seamless and wildly inven-

tive production, three worlds merged to

create a hilarious evening for all present.

The courtly lovers were reduced to literally

becoming entangled in a magical web of

their own emotions; the fairy kingdom was

wildly acrobatic, inverting all nature as they

spun dizzily on trapeze and played with

fire; and the clowning of the rustics

reduced everyone to helpless laughter.

However, the performance was also

beautifully scored with original music skil-

fully performed to highlight the three sepa-

rate worlds which became entwined. In

addition to the highly physical theatre…

when the lines in question are being deliv-

ered while suspended upside down from a

hoop or while somersaulting across a

stage it does take a certain level of profes-

sionalism not normally associated with a

school production!

It feels very unfair to single anyone out

for special praise, but equally it would be

unfair to not mention the tour-de-force

performance by Tom Coxon as Puck. His

athleticism and mimicry were a joy to

watch. Similarly the clowning of the rustics

showed real teamwork. As an ensemble

piece this was absolutely stupendous,

demonstrating talent and confidence

which belied the age of the performers.

What was also very obvious, however, was

the fantastic teamwork between students

and staff in creating this magical dream of

a production.” Gill O’Donnell.

R E C U R R I N GD R E A M S

Which play to choose for a school produc-

tion? Reasons are probably as numerous

as the productions themselves. In the mid

1980s talk began of a school trip to

Australia as part of their bicentenary cele-

brations. Australian student Katie Higgins

(St ’85) had been part of the Hamlet tour to

Denmark and Norway in 1985 and she had

mooted the idea of a trip Down Under to

Alan Myles in Oslo at the end of that trip.

What started life as a cricket tour for 1988,

lassoed in music, then drama, and I was

asked to cast a play as far as possible from

cricketers and/or musicians so that most

members of the group would be involved in

at least two activities. Then co-organiser,

David Fox, suggested that the play really

ought to be by Shakespeare; I immediately

knew which play it would be. A couple of

years before, I had taken a school group to

the RST in Stratford to see a number of

plays, one of which was A Midsummer-

Night’s Dream. One of the group had been

so taken by the performance of Oberon by

Gerard Murphy, a powerful performance of

great physicality and machismo, that the

student, Gareth Callan (N 83-88), told me

that if I ever directed the play at school he

absolutely had to play the fairy king. By the

time the Oz trip was in the planning stages,

Gareth was well over six feet tall and

powerfully built, so I conceived Oberon

and his queen Titania as nature deities, and

the ideas for the concept of the production

flowed from that beginning. Gareth was

Last November, the Drama

Department staged a

stunning performance of

Shakespeare’s A Mid -

summer Night’s Dream, to

considerable critical

acclaim. The Music

Department provided an

outstanding accompany-

ing score. The following

extracts are from a review

that appeared in the local

press

Plans are being hatched to

take this production, if at all

possible, as part of a

Performing Arts Tour to Italy

during the coming summer

holiday.

By pure coincidence, the

two previous tours of this

nature – to Australia in 1988

for their Bicentenary, and to

the north east of the USA in

1998 – both also took A

Midsummer Night’s Dream as

one element of the tour. OGs

who were part of these

productions will doubtless

have their own reminiscences

of them. The play’s Director on

each occasion was Michael

Day, who writes about his

memories of two productions

which were different in

concept not only from each

other, but also from 2008/9’s

successful vintage.

joined by a statuesque Shona Oldroyd (P

86-88) as his queen; Oberon was served

by an impish Puck (Michael Leadbeater P

87-92) and Titania by a train of fairies who

combined streaks of arrogance and

cruelty; what I wanted to avoid was any

conventional idea the Australians might

have of fairies at the bottom of the garden,

by bringing out the dark side of the realm

of Faerie.

Taking a production away from school

necessitated a minimal set. The play was

staged in the traverse, with audience on

two sides and the action on a catwalk

between. For the court scenes at the

beginning and end of the play there were

two lines of bulbs with warm colours, and

the catwalk was painted with black and

white squares; when the action moved to

the wood outside Athens, the warm

colours faded and green and blue bulbs

came up, while the majestic figure of

Oberon emerged from the shadows, his

75-foot-long, 7-foot-wide cloak of camou-

flage material covering the whole acting

area. Each school at which we performed

was asked to provide this simple stage

layout: then we turned up with our magic

cloak and a few dozen coloured light

bulbs.

Because the 1988 trip had several

members of the cricket team who were

playing in the afternoon then performing in

the evening, I conceived the rude mechan-

icals as amateur cricketers coming home

from a nets practice through the forest,

their gear in a cricket bag, and at the end

of the play they keep on their cricket whites

but add bells and hankies so that for the

dance after their play of Pyramus and

Thisbe they become Morris Men and bring

the play to a stomping conclusion: so

much of a stomp in Brisbane that the

captain of cricket’s leg went through the

staging!... The Yorkshire accents of the

mechanicals caused unforeseen problems

– but luckily the physicality of the acting

won the audiences over. Favourite

moment? I think this had to be the fact that

at the first performance after arriving in

Australia, when the interval came, the four

lovers were left to “sleep” in the middle of

the acting area, while Bottom, Titania and

her fairies were “slumbering” in the fairy

queen’s bower. The audiences went off for

refreshments and came back to find all

these characters still asleep – after flying

halfway round the world and performing

half the play jet-lagged, the actors really

did doze off. As the lights dimmed for the

second half I found myself lying on my

stomach with a long brush attempting to

poke the nearest fairy into consciousness.

Finally successful, I was rewarded with

looks of utmost confusion and alarm as

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BirthsTo Kel l y Innes (née Bi cker, St 9 0 -9 5 ) and

her husband Stephen, a daughter, Cecily Jean

Olivia, born 18 May 2008.

To Kathry n Wri g ht (née Ri mmer, St 7 0 -

7 5 ) and her husband Chri s Wri g ht (M 7 0 -

7 5 ) , a daughter, Madeleine Anna, born 13

August 2008.

To Leo na Pux l ey (née Mal ey, C 9 1 -9 5 )

and her husband Simon, a daughter, Lilian Alice

Jane, born 11 November 2008.

To Kev i n Fenech (CH/ S 8 4 -9 1 )

and his wife Roberta, a son, Thomas,

born 18 November 2008.

To James No rthen (CH/ N 8 1 -8 9 )

and his wife Angela, a daughter, Emily

May, born 20 December 2008.

To Al i s o n Wi l l i ams (C 9 8 -0 3 ) and

Neil Ridsdale, a daughter, Brooke

Summer, born 20 December 2008.

To Charl es Lamb (N 9 1 -9 6 ) and his wife,

Karen, a daughter, Elizabeth Rose, born 20

January 2009 - a sister for Jacob William, born

8 April 2007.

MarriagesJul i a Ho l e (St 9 3 -9 5 )

married Paul Murphy at

The Falcon, Castle

Ashby on 8 August 2008.

Other OGs present

were (L to R on photo-

graph) Kelly Innes [née

Bicker, St 90-95)], Kaeti

Rawling [née

S t r i c k l a n d ,

[CH/St 87-95]

holding Cecily

Innes, and

Katherine Ford

[St 90-95].

Rebecca Jo rdan (St 9 3 -9 8 ) married Joe

Noori at Lake Bled, Slovenia, on 5 December

2008.

13 other OGs were also present (see below

from L to R): Helen

Pendlebury (St 95-00),

Adam Uttley (M 93-98),

Natasha Jordan (St 95-

00), Rufus Turnbull (S

93-98), (Joe Noori – the

groom), Stephen Hall

(94-99), (Rebecca),

James Metcalfe (P 92-96), Rebecca Barton (C

93-98), Ruth Pendlebury (St 93-98), Greg Boyle

(M 94-98),

Derek Jordan

(CH/St 58-

66), Amy

Adams (C 93-

98), Joanna

Sanders (née

Ferguson, St

96-98), Lucy

Metcalfe (C

9 3 - 9 8 ) .

N a t a s h a ,

Ruth, Lucy and Amy were the bridesmaids and

Lucy made a ‘Best Woman’ speech at the

Reception.

Ni cho l as Tay l o r (M

8 9 -9 4 ) married Juanita

Gamez Duran on 28

February 2009 in the

San Pedro Claver

Cathedral in Cartagena

de Indias, Colombia.

Other OGs attending

were Nick’s brothers,

Wi l l i am (CH/ M 8 3 -8 9 ) and Jeremy (CH/ M

8 5 -9 2 ) and his cousin, Ri chard As hwo rth

(CH/ M 8 1 -8 7 ) .

Kel l y Ri mmel l (St 9 3 -

9 8 ) married Ben Chambers

in the School Chapel on 21

March 2009.

Paul CM Jo nes (CH/ S

8 9 -9 8 ) married Jennie

Harmer at Christ Church,

Fulwood, Sheffield, on 4

April 2009. One of the

Ushers was Phi l i p

Bi nney (CH/ S 9 0 -9 8 ) .

Births, Marriages and Deaths…

Sir Douglas Glover

Memorial LectureThe 14th Sir Douglas Glover Memorial Lecture was delivered to

a packed Catteral Pavilion audience on 17 November 2008 by

the prominent human rights and civil liberties activist, Shami

Chakrabarti CBE LLB. Her subject was Rights, Freedoms and

Democracy.

In a wide-ranging and brilliant talk, she held her audience

spellbound and won over more than a few present who perhaps

were not expecting to warm to her ideas. Her response to the

impromptu questions put to her after the address was particularly impressive and showed total

command of her material. All her answers were thoughtful and she dealt with every topic in consider-

able depth. In short, this was one of the more memorable lectures in this important series designed to

stimulate thought, interest and active involvement in public life among the pupils of today.

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awakening actors tried to figure just what

where they were and what was going on…

Nine years later I was on sabbatical, and as

part of a round-the-world look at ways of

staging Shakespeare in places as far apart

as India , Indonesia, Canada, and the USA,

I visited schools in New England where a

music and drama tour was to go the

following year, 1998. I was rather dismayed

by the wish of all those schools to see A

Midsummer-Night’s Dream rather than The

Comedy of Errors which I had been plan-

ning. I wanted to work on a new challenge.

How would I conceive a new version? I had

spent three weeks in Indonesia earlier in

my tour, and seen some wonderful theatre

in Bali. Gradually ideas started to permeate

from the traditional Balinese mime and

dance performances I had seen: this time

the fairies would come out of something

further to the East: the elements of

animism in Balinese Hinduism in particular,

would add an earthiness to them, and in

Puck I saw the mischievousness of the

monkey god Hanuman, who features in the

wonderful physical theatre of the kecak

dance.

So ten years after The Dream went off

eastwards to Oz, a new Dream went West,

new fairies, now climbing and slithering

over each other like creatures out of the

earth, new rude mechanicals, now sporting

waistcoats with long ribbons flowing from

them to suggest the Old English

Mummers’ Plays, with their fertility rites

that echoed the origins of drama in both

East and West; new lovers, maybe a little

raunchier than they had been ten years

before: new tricks for New England.

In a posh girls’ school near Washington,

just before the performance, Titania

swigged a can of grape soda and very

quickly discovered she was allergic to the

contents. We had a fairy queen alternating

between fits of the giggles and floods of

tears because she thought she was ruining

the performance! In fact the two rows of

audience in a 600-seat auditorium were so

dead that the rest of the cast were overact-

ing like mad anyway, and a fairy queen high

on grape soda fitted in perfectly. In fact the

American inability just to sit and watch a

performance quietly without having to talk

and wander out to the Coke machine (or

maybe it was grape soda) – kept the cast

on their thespian toes at all venues, and

each performance topped the previous

one for inventiveness. Hard work on

stage eventually caught the audiences’

attention and the performances were

accorded generous applause in all the

venues. The chemistry of the groups on

both tours and the good nature and

professionalism with which the casts and

stage crews rose to the occasion created

some unforgettable moments, some of

the highlights of my drama teaching career.

Keep up the touring, Giggleswick!

Michael Day (Staff 75-03

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improvements took place, including the

building of a new Art Block.

He drew inspiration for many of his own

paintings from the hills and dales of North

Craven, the Lake District and the Highlands,

depicting nature in all its moods – storm

clouds over Ingleborough, the translucent

effect of light upon water or its limpid bril-

liance on the white sands of Morar, the

brooding majesty of the Cuillin from Glen

Brittle. He was a founder member and leader

for many years of Clapham Art Group.

Cyril Harrington was a man of compas-

sion, with a rare skill for helping wounded

creatures, particularly in his treatment of

birds. All who passed his house in

Giggleswick will not easily forget how he

and Betty nursed and cared for a magpie for

some ten years.

Not least among his other gifts was his

excellence as a photographer. His experience

too was invaluable to the Settle and District

Civic Society, of which he was a founder

member.

1976 was a year of sadness for him in the

death of his wife Betty, who was an equally

perceptive painter and shared his interests

and sympathies.

After retirement, Cyril moved to Suffolk,

where he ran art courses for some years and

gave guided talks on local churches. He also

founded an Art Group at Ufford, tutoring and

organizing the annual exhibition until last

year.

He will be remembered by many former

colleagues and pupils with affection, both for

his inspirational teaching and his liberaliz-

ing influence at Giggleswick.

WH Brookes and DH Blackburn

DeathsCy ri l Harri ng to n , Art Master at

Giggleswick for 22 years, died on 28

February 2009 at the age of 97. Born in

1911, he attended Manchester Grammar

School and then studied architecture at

Manchester University, subsequently work-

ing in London. He joined the Territorial

Army, was commissioned in the Lancashire

Fusiliers, and at the outbreak of war saw

active service in France. Taken prisoner at

the time of Dunkirk, he spent the next five

years in a German prisoner-of-war camp, in

the company of Robert Moss, Headmaster of

Catteral Hall (1955-1962) and Paul Bartlett,

Modern Languages master at Giggleswick

(1929-1934). After the war he worked for the

Ancient Monuments Commission, listing

buildings worthy of preservation. After a

short spell at Clevedon House, he was

appointed Head of the Art Department at

Giggleswick by Mr. E. H. Partridge in 1955.

Cyril Harrington was a most sympathetic

and stimulating teacher of art and architec-

ture, with the ability to impart to his pupils

something of his own sense of wonder,

adventure and enjoyment. He did much to

open the minds of his pupils to the architec-

tural beauty of the world about them— the

rustic simplicity of a barn door, the ruins of a

castle, the medieval splendour of a York

street. His knowledge of architecture was

encyclopaedic, but never a mere catalogue of

events or information. He knew how to re-

create the past, picking out a wealth of detail

with meticulous and stimulating precision.

Cyril Harrington retired from Giggleswick in

1977 after more than 20 years as Director of

Art. During this period many changes and

Geo rg e S Chri s ti e ((S 3 4 -3 7 ) died in

September 2008, aged 88.

Ro bert Atki ns o n (S 2 9 -3 0 ) died on 11

September 2008, 10 days after his 94th

birthday.

Murray Dy s o n (CH/ S 3 9 -4 7 ) died on 15

September 2008, aged 77.

To m V Ho y l e (St 3 6 -4 1 ) died on 30

December 2008, aged 84.

Jo hn Nev i l l e Lamb (CH/ T 3 9 -4 5 ) died

on 27 January 2009, aged 80.

Mrs Yv o nne Bo s wel l , widow of the late Dr

Charles Boswell (Head of Biology 1960-73),

died on 3 February 2009, aged 97.

Dav i d K Ai tken (CH/ P 4 5 -5 1 ) died on 16

February 2009, aged 73.

Rev d James Metcal fe (T 2 8 -3 6 ) died on

21 February 2009, aged 91.

Born in Settle in October 1917, Jim had a

distinguished career at Giggleswick, ending

up as a Praepostor and Head of House, in addi-

tion to playing as a lock forward in RM

Marshall’s XV in 1935. After school he went

to St Peter’s Hall and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford

and was ordained in Rochester Cathedral, his

first parish ministry being at Dartford, Kent.

At the outbreak of World War 2, he joined

the Army Chaplaincy and trained with the

Royal Artillery in Norfolk. He married his

childhood sweetheart in Dewsbury in 1944

and later that year joined a unit of the Border

Regiment and was posted to Burma.

Following demobilization in Spring 1947,

Jim served successively as curate in Goole

(47-49), vicar of St Thomas, Batley (49-55),

St John the Baptist, Mexborough (55-71)

and St Alban’s, Wickersley, Rotherham (71-

82). Upon retirement, he returned to

Giggleswick where he assisted in the

ministry of St Alkelda’s.

Jim is survived by his widow, Nancy, sons

Richard and David and daughter Caroline.

SPECIAL EXHIBITION

on the

LIFE AND WORK of

CYRIL HARRINGTON

OG DAY

Saturday 4 July 2009

in

The Glover Art School

End NoteOn behalf of everyone at Giggleswick we would like to thank those who left money to

the School in their wills last year.

Gifts totalling £5,500 from the estates of two OGs helped the School to provide some

of the £750,000 worth of bursaries and scholarships awarded to pupils last year.

We would also like to acknowledge the kind gift of Mr Robert Hopwood in his will to the

Music Department. His gift of £100 was used to purchase recording equipment.

Finally, Mr Allen Newhouse’s gift of over £100,000 enabled the School to invest in

improvements to communal facilities.

Every gift left to the School is used to provide opportunities for our pupils. Whether £100

or £100,000, they make a real difference to the young people who follow you at

Giggleswick.

If and when the time is right for you, please remember Giggleswick School in your will.

1512 SocietyOn Saturday 13 June members of the 1512 Society are

invited to join the Headmaster for Lunch at Hollywell Toft.

Members of the 1512 Society have pledged over

£1.4million to the School in their wills. If you are planning

to make a gift to the School in your will, there is no need to

let the School know of your wishes. However, were you to

do so, it would allow us to thank you for your generosity.

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