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Old Giggleswickian Yorkshire Rowers Complete Atlantic Crossing

Two Yorkshire OGs, who set out to row the Atlantic Ocean, have completed the gruelling 3,000 mile journey, known as the World’stoughest rowing race – the Woodvale Atlantic Rowing Race. Alex Macdonald (23) (M 99-04) and Luke Grose (24) (M 00-04) set offfrom the island of La Gomera near Tenerife on 4th January and have since struggled through storms, rowed alongside dolphins, crossedtanker lanes and even spotted sharks to cover 3,000 miles in their boat, the JCT600 Yorkshire Challenger. The pair, from Settle in NorthYorkshire, crossed the finish line in Antigua at 16.30 (GMT) on 29 March after rowing for just over 84 days, despite an early injury setbackmaking it difficult for Alex to row in the first few weeks. More than 100 people made up of friends, family, fellow rowers, locals andAntiguan government representatives welcomed them at English Harbour in Antigua, armed with banners, flares and champagne, beforethey enjoyed their first and well deserved meal of chicken and chips.

The tiring demands of the two-hour-on, two-hour-off rowing shifts means the pair has lost 4 stone in weight between them and theywill spend the next four days on the island adjusting back to normality. Speaking about the epic journey, Alex said: “It was an incredibleexperience, very tough mentally and physically at times, but worth every stroke. Arriving in English Harbour is something I will neverforget and it was a privilege to go through the whole journey with Luke.” To keep up their spirits during the row, Alex and Luke updatedregular blogs on their team website (www.teamjct600.com), explaining the highs and lows of the journey, from visiting wildlife and nighttime rowing to the frustration of bad weather causing them to sit on para-anchor.

The duo completed the crossing to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support and have already smashed their £10,000 target, withthe support of Yorkshire car retailer JCT600. Donations can be made at their website www.teamjct600.com

Thanks go to Appeal PR Ltd of Harrogate for permission to use their Press Release for this article.

OGs speak at Chapel – preparing for the race

Last Autumn Term Alex and Luke Grose gave an inspirational talk at Chapel about their three year build up to the forthcoming WoodvaleTransatlantic Rowing Race. They recalled how they were inspired to undertake this awesome challenge by Giggleswick's previous Headof History, Mark Mortimer who, having made the crossing in a two man boat in 1997, attempted a solo row in 2004 while the boys wereat Giggleswick.

Their first task was to raise £50,000 in sponsorship. They ended up with more sponsors than any other teamin the race; they included JCT 600 (main sponsor), Breitling, Virgin Atlantic, Henri Lloyd, Oakley, Glenlivet,Booths, Newton Investment Management, Arqiva, Trinity Horne, JM Bentley, Nottingham University andGiggleswick School. Alex and Luke are also grateful to local businesses such as Car & Kitchen, the Naked Man,Jazz, Thirteen, Castleberg Sports and Country Harvest who have also provided sponsorship. Alex finished thetalk by encouraging pupils to aim high and reminding them that anything is possible if you set yourself goals andare prepared to work hard to achieve them.

“Preparing for the race has seen us work harder than we ever believed possible”, said Luke.

TeamJCT600: (Left to

Right) Alex Macdonald

and Luke Grose celebrate

on dry land in Antigua,

after rowing across the

Atlantic Ocean.

Team JCT600 makes its final few strokes

towards the finish line in Antigua.

Gigg : news

OGs Row Atlantic – A Dream Achieved!

May 2010

No. 57

staying in touch with Old Giggleswickians

DATES for YOUR DIARY20 May 18.30 onwards: OG Informal Gathering at Moss Wood, Toft, Cheshire

For details contact Sian Driver via Main School Reception (01729 893000)or on [email protected]

22 May 14.00 – Sports Day29 May Speech Day

09.45 – Commemoration Service in ChapelPreacher: Mr Hugh Bradby, Gen.Sec. of The Independent SchoolsChristian Alliance

11.30 – Speeches and Prize GivingGuests of Honour: The Atlantic Rowers

19 June Senior and Junior School Open Morning3 July OG Day and Special Reunion for all former pupils of Nowell House

14.00 – Junior School Parents’ Association Summer Jamboree5 July New U6 Higher Education and Careers Week begins9 July Summer Term ends13–15 July Giggleswick at the Yorkshire Show, Harrogate

Contact Sian Driver via the main school Reception (01729 893000) or [email protected]

5 September Michaelmas Term begins20 September 19.00 – OG Committee Meeting8 October OG Yorkshire Dinner at Oakdale Golf Club, Harrogate

Contact Chris Harwood on 0113 2457027, or [email protected]

11 November OG Lancashire Dinner at Pleasington Golf Club, BlackburnContact Anthony Duckworth on 01254 202088, or [email protected]

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Giggleswick goes to…More and more OG gatherings, both formal and informal, are taking place in variousparts of the UK and overseas. Since the last edition of Gigg:news OGs have met up onthe Isle of Man, in Newcastle, Hong Kong, Dubai, at the HSBC offices in Manchester,in Settle, at Whittington Races, the OG London Dinner in the House of Commons andat the OG Rugby XV match v Old Grovians at Giggleswick.

Look for forthcoming events in Cheshire – at the home of Dominic Baldwin, nearKnutsford, on 20 May; at the OG Golf Society Golf Day at Settle Golf Club on Friday 25June; OG Day at Giggleswick on Saturday 3 July (Special Reunion for all former pupilsof Nowell House).

Giggleswick goes to Germany on Saturday 18 September – to Darmstad, nearFrankfurt.

Further get-togethers are planned for later in the year in Nuneaton, Harrogate, at theYorkshire and Lancashire Dinners. Most of these events are hosted by OGs and wewould like a few more venues, for example in the South West, the West Midlands andEast Anglia. Can you help with these?

This year, for the first time, Giggleswick will have a stand at The Great YorkshireShow in Harrogate from 13–15 July. Could you help us to man it? – if so, please contactSian Driver at [email protected] or via the School Reception (01729 893000)

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Famous OG SeriesWe can make our lives sublime,And, departing, leave behind usFootprints in the sands of time.HW Longfellow

BRIAN PARSONSBSC PhD MIMEChE CENG (1931-2009)

Town/Shute 1942-50, Head of House, Praepostor,

XV Colour, XI Colour, Athletics VIII, Gold Medallist, Sgt CCF

Born in Giggleswick in 1931, Brian Parsons attended the local primary

school and won a scholarship to Giggleswick, which he entered in 1942,

initially in Town House and later in Shute. An active sportsman, he

played for the XV in 1948 and ’49 and for the XI in ‘49 and ’50, in which

two years he also won the Gold Medal for athletics, breaking a number

of school records in the process; he also played rugby for Yorkshire

Schoolboys. In Brian’s final year, the Headmaster, E H Partridge, invited

him to become a boarder so that he could be Head of Shute and on his

final Speech Day he became the first ever recipient of the R M Marshall

Memorial Prize.

After Giggleswick, he read mechanical engineering at Leeds

University. Sport was again of significance and he was awarded his

university colours for rugby, cricket, athletics and fives. In his first two

years he also played rugby for the English Universities. However, a knee

injury then ended his playing career so he put his energies instead into

academic study, being awarded a 1st Class Honours degree and a

University Scholarship to study successfully for his PhD in Strengths of

Materials and Rates of Deformation.

To gain industrial experience in engineering, Brian worked for English

Electric Aviation (later British Aerospace). Here, he was in charge of the

mechanical and structural testing of features of the Canberra and

Lightening aircraft.

Returning to Leeds University in 1961 as a Lecturer, with subsequent

promotions to Senior Lecturer and then Reader, he was also a member

of the University Senate for a number of years. While at Leeds, he was

invited to the USA for nine months to take the post of Visiting Professor

at Rensselaer in New York State.

In 1984 Brian was appointed to the Chair of Mechanical Engineering

at Queen Mary College, University of London; later, he became Head of

the Dept of Mechanical Engineering and eventually Head of the School

of Engineering (covering Aeronautical, Civil/Geo-materials, Materials and

Mechanical Engineering). A distinguished scientist and engineer, he was

author of well over 65 scientific papers and journal publications, his prin-

cipal areas of research being: the strength of materials; the exploitation

of materials, including bio-engineering; tribology of metal forming oper-

ations; finite element methods for design analysis and computer

assisted design education. His collaborative projects with major manu-

facturing companies included many of the leading motor manufacturers,

plus the MOD, NEI, British Telecom, Rolls-Royce and numerous others.

He was very actively involved with overseas students, visiting China,

Malaysia and Taiwan for recruitment of post-graduates and acting as

tutor to numerous Chinese students as they researched their doctorates.

In all he guided almost 30 students through their PhD/MSc studies, was

responsible for 21 Research Fellows and acted as external examiner for

both first and higher degrees at almost 20 universities.

On his retirement in 1997 the title of Professor Emeritus of the

University of London was conferred upon him. He spent his retirement

years in Kent, played golf, enjoyed travel and attended the OG Wessex

Lunch whenever possible. Throughout his life Brian was very proud of

his association with Giggleswick and its famous school.

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Letters…Robin E Delves (St 47-51) writes:

“I was pleased to read that the NEW OGBALL was successful. Even in 1959 Ialways thought that the event should beheld at school and I still think this. We heldthe early Balls on the Friday before the startof the Spring Term and we entertained theHeadmaster, Housemasters and theirwives, plus the OG Secretary – Mr L PDutton and his wife, the OG Treasurer – J DT Lincoln and his wife. The firstHeadmaster to attend was Mr OJT Rowe.

My twin brother (E Richard Delves: N47-53) went to Leeds University straightfrom school and was lodged in DevonshireHall, a very desirable hall of residence,which staged an annual ‘Devon Ball’. Tothis I was invited on one occasion and thelovely girl who accompanied me spent thewhole night dancing – if you please – withGeorge Melly, who was singing withHumphrey Lyttelton’s band at the time. Mysailing career started in the mid-fifties atBurwain S.C. on the Burwain Reservoir atFoulridge, near Colne, Lancs. This was oneof several prestigious organisations,including also the Hawks Cricket Club andthe Yorkshire Young Conservatives, whoheld ‘Grand Balls’ at Craiglands, Ilkley.

As further inspiration, it was the casethat the social event of the year of the still-powerful City of Bradford was the BradfordGrammar School Old Boys’ Dance, whichalways had Victor Silvester as theorchestra. It was felt by some OGs that weshould organise a rival Bradford Area OGDance. So, with the encouragement ofbrother Dick, and spurred on by thesuccess of all the events mentioned, theoriginal OG Ball was founded. It wasagreed upon by N S T Benson(Headmaster) at the OG AGM in 1958 andthe first dance was held at Craiglands Hotelon 9 January 1959.

The original committee was: J BHarland (N 30-35), who was the BradfordArea OG organiser, R T G Lord (CH/N 44-51), R A Gent (CH/N 46-53), E R Delvesand R E Delves (chief organiser, if I maysay so). The first dance attracted 230people and at its zenith there were over 600for several years (not 500, as stated inGigg:news). I retired from the fray when Igot my job with DuPont (UK) Ltd in 1964.

Jim Harland had a joinery department inhis mill and they made some rugby goalposts to erect on the dance floor atCraiglands, to make it appear ‘likeGiggleswick’. The following year we intro-duced daglo red on black Giggleswickcrests to be sited all round the balcony inthe ballroom.

The year after that we had 4 photo-graphs (each 9ft x 6ft) of the SchoolChapel, Classroom Block, etc, which werehighlighted by fluorescent lighting along

the top (this type of advertising had justbeen introduced onto the streets of GreatBritain, 15 years after the end of thewartime blackout).

In about 1963 we ‘took a chance’ andproduced another 9ft x 6ft photograph, thistime of ‘The Four Beatles’. This photographwas amended by eliminating the heads ofthe Beatles and substituting in their placethe heads of four housemasters of the time– Dean, Dutton, Fuller and Middleton –who were of course our guests! (The riskwe thought we took – some 10 monthsprior to the Ball – was whether or not thoseattending would still know who TheBeatles were!). We usually held a raffle inthose early days of the event, to make surewe never made a loss. The photograph wasa raffle prize and, because I had made anagreement with Brian Epstein (the thenBeatles’ manager) that we would not profitfrom the modified photograph, I ‘fiddled’the result of the raffle so that the photo-graph was won by Mrs Rowe, theHeadmaster’s wife, and thus became theresponsibility of the School. Unfortunately,something which we did not really thinkabout at the time, at least one of thephotographed housemasters ‘was not bestpleased’ and this unique photograph disap-peared. What might it be worth today? Didany OG take a photograph of the photo-graph? All the photographs were producedby the School’s photographer at the time,Ken Jelley.

From day one, OGs could invite guestswho were not OGs, but tickets were soldonly to members of the OG Club; otherwisewe might well have encountered difficultieswhen we became oversubscribed.”

previously my wife and I had an enjoyabletime staying with the Howarths in Ontario;and until recently we met the Amblersannually at various hotels in the north.

Times have changed somewhat theselast 72 years! I wonder how boarders wouldreact today if they had to take a jug to thebathroom for hot water and bring it back toa cubicle to wash. At the time there weremany pretty 14-16 year-old maids, but wewere not allowed to talk to them at all. IkeDutton was paying attention to MissBarton, whom he married; the wholeschool seemed interested in his amorousadventures.

On Speech Day 1938 we were promisedthat the School would have a railwayengine named after it. The following termwe were all invited to Settle Station for thenaming ceremony – the whole school,along with civic dignitaries; the School gota good press from it. For a while nothingmore was heard of this gleaming monster; Iwondered what had happened to it. Severalyears later I was out on my farmland nextto the railway when I saw a large enginepulling 56 coal wagons; further inspectionproved it to be the ‘Giggleswick’. I wasdisappointed: following its send-off I hadexpected nothing less than the Royal Train.Still, at least it was doing its bit for the Wareffort; I saw it many times afterwards.

On 3 September 1939 War was declaredagainst Germany; I returned to schoolabout a week later to find a vastly changedschool. Mr Benson, our Housemaster (whohad been in charge of the OTC), had beencalled up, as had Sgt Wardle. OurHousemaster was now Sam Douglas (betterknown as ‘peg leg’) and I had been movedinto a front study with new mates – sadly,I am unable to remember who they were.Several other masters were missing, someothers had returned from retirement to fillthe gaps. Jack Howarth, my long-timefriend, had returned to Canada – anexciting journey after being stopped by aGerman U-boat that finally let them gobecause they were in a United States ship.He later joined the Royal Canadian AirForce. Ambler had left to start farming atAirton. I felt rather lonely and persuadedmy father to give my notice to leave at theend of that term, although only 15 yearsold at the time.

The blackout presented all sorts of diffi-culties about covering all the manywindows in the school and some of theolder masters had difficulty moving aboutin the dark. A party of us was sent to dig anair raid trench, or shelter, across the roadfrom Catteral Hall, through a small gateand on top of the hill. A more stupid placeI could not have thought of – I have aphotograph of it somewhere – and as I wasleaving at the end of term, I oftenwondered what happened to it. Because ofthe blackout, chapel services wererestricted and we were allowed only very

T Bateman Marshall (C 37-39) writes:‘In September 1937 three boys were

placed in the same study in Carr House.Today, 73 years later, all three are still incorrespondence with each other: JackHaworth (C 37-39) from Canada, JohnAmbler (C 37-39) from Scotland and me –Bateman Marshall from Bentham. Other‘New Squits’ (new boys) in Carr that termwere CW Whiteley (C 37-41) from Otley,RWM Morphet (C 37-41) from Horton inRibblesdale and AL Mann (C 37-42) fromWales, all now deceased. EH Partridge wasour Headmaster and NST Benson ourHousemaster, two very fine men indeed.

Howarth has been over to Englandseveral times, but two years ago he and hisson came to stay with us, during whichtime they were shown round the school bythe Head of School, my own grand-daughter, Isobel Marshall (C 02-07); wealso visited Ambler in Scotland. Two years

MEMORIES OF GIGGLESWICKOVER 70 YEARS AGO…


evenings with his gown spread out, likesome great raptor gazing down on his flockand reiterating the message: ‘Keep astraight bat on and off the field and don’teven think about girls.’

With many of the staff away on activeservice, teaching was variable and at onestage I was being taught Latin by MrHammond, who was over 90, he havingbeen dragged away from his pipe and slip-pers to do his bit for the war effort. My bêtenoir was Ike Dutton. He thought I was vile,lazy and dozy and I thought he was a grad-uate of the Himmler school of education –it was not even a contest. And it alwaysseemed to be raining. However, we madethe best of it, stayed pretty cheerful, playedsport with enthusiasm if no skill (only thetop sets were coached). Nobody ran awayor needed counselling and some of us wereused to boarding – I had eight years at prepschool, spending holidays with grandmas,aunties and occasionally at school as myparents were in India. Even so, the best dayof the term was the last day!

After four years at Gigg I left in July1946. I have never been back, one reasonbeing that for many years the old schoolsimply ignored its old boys. Came thecomputer age and things improved(although I see my d.o.b. is given as1/1/1901, which puts me a lot furtherdown the rocky road than is the case). Thenewsletters paint a picture of happy,contented pupils, dressed in smartuniforms (we wore all sorts of cast-offclothes), housed in five star accommoda-tion, eating sumptuous meals, being taughtesoteric subjects and with girls all over theplace. ‘Twern’t loike that when oi wer alad, oi can tell ee.’ You can still learn. Mytwo grandsons went to Maritzburg College,a government school whose old boy tenta-cles stretch far out into the universe. Lastyear they held a dinner to honour one ofthe old codgers who was retiring aftermany years’ service. 700 turned up andthey raised R50,000 as a farewell present;they seem to take a freemason-type oathwhen they leave.

After leaving, I spent my ‘gap’ two-and-a-half years in the RAF as a drill andweapon training instructor, affectionatelyknown as a ‘drill pig’. After demob Iworked on farms before doing an agricul-tural degree at King’s College, Newcastle –at that time part of Durham University –where I met up with Derek Holmes (Town40-46). In 1953 I got married and as WSCsaid, lived happily ever after. After furtherspells on farms, learning my trade, webought Berry Farm, Shebbear, a dorp inNorth Devon and spent the next 15 years

dairy farming. When going full bore wewere one of the most densely stocked farmsin Devon, but the effort nearly killed us.You needed muscles like a coal miner andenough wiles to outwit the stoats at theMin of Ag who seemed determined to putall small farmers out of business. Theirefforts, plus the winter of 1962-63, nearlysucceeded. In 1968 we sold up and afterdoing a one-year course in adult educationat Birmingham University, I spent fouryears lecturing at the West of ScotlandAgricultural College. In 1972 a combinationof dreary wet summers and Ted Heath’sefforts to govern the country (a three-dayweek, endless power cuts and police andminers fighting pitched battles atKilmarnock Power Station) made us upsticks and move to Rhodesia with twoyoung daughters and a younger son.

I taught agriculture at every level frommaster farmer training up to degree stan-dard and guess what – I might just as wellnot have bothered; the whole place,including some of the most productive andprofitable farms in the world, is now like adesert. I spent 10 years at GwebiAgricultural College, ending up as vice-principal (a position I held at three colleges– lacking leadership qualities do youthink?). The students were the salt of theearth, but by the end of the so-called ‘Warof Liberation’ we had lost 27 of them, killedin action. Many of the farmers I taught arenow scattered round the world and twowere murdered on their farms by Mugabe’sthugs. Anyway, after 30 years in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe teaching, writing and of course‘consulting’, we sold up and came down toPMB to live with our eldest daughter.

I understand that nobody goes into agri-culture these days. I read somewhere thatmagistrates give hooligans a choice: serveyour time in a secure young offenders’institution, or attend agricultural college.Surely this can’t be true – it sounds morethan a bit far-fetched, even for liberalBritain. A shame really that primaryproducers are being put out of business bycrazed politicians and the hard-faced menin back rooms who run the supermarkets.As one gets older, one despairs if thehuman race…

PS – I hope that when the big celebra-tion takes place in 2012, a special tribute ispaid to EH Partridge. He kept the Schoolgoing under the most difficult circum-stances, with everything rationed, lack ofdecent staff, boys leaving and six monthslater their names being read out in Chapelas ‘killed in action’. He died early and wasas much a victim of the war as RMMarshall.

few candles for the end of term service,which made it all the more impressive. Iwill always remember my last Carol Servicein the Chapel.

Because of the war, rugby matches weresometimes arranged so that we did nothave too far to travel; I well rememberplaying on the main ground at Headingley,which seemed massive. Another remem-brance of the School was the OTC Band,which was always very impressive onparade; I never knew when they found timeto practise.

At the end of the Christmas Term 1939 Ileft school to go and milk cows by handand plough with horses, without an examto my name; shortly after, I started driving,so have never passed even my driving test!But I have still had a very good life andderived much benefit from my time atGigg.’

Over a year ago, another OG wrote to theHeadmaster telling, among other things, ofhis experiences at Giggleswick at a slightlylater, but related time.Peter GD Chard (S 42-46) writes:

‘I was one of the mafia from AschamHouse, Gosforth (evacuated from HolmPark, Moffat) who were at Gigg together:David Angus (S 41-45), Eric Libby (S 40-44), Brian Gale (38-43), Phil Baty (St 41-44), Geoff Baty (St 45-50), Brian Rothera(S 43-48), David Rothera (S 45-49), JeffHutchinson (S 42-46), Ian Porteous (C 42-46) and myself. Hutch, Port and I set arecord by taking the top three places in theJune 1942 scholarship exam; enough tomerit a para in the Newcastle Journal,although I expect other prep schools havebroken it on many occasions since. Of the10, I believe only David Rothera, Porteousand I are still upright; I was sad to read theobituary for David Angus in Gigg:news, aswe had kept in touch over the years.

My lasting memory of Gigg is thecomplete lack of anything in the way ofhome comforts. Stone floors, bare boards,outdoor lavatories, hot water turned off inthe summer term and just enough plainfood to keep us going; obesity was not aproblem! Luxuries were a couple of smallbuns from the tuck shop three times a weekand hot water for cocoa in the basement onSunday evenings. Punishment drill formisdemeanours and the cane for felonies.One boy found the tray of sausages beingkept warm for the latecomers fromcommunion and ate all 36 – he was beatenfor gluttony. Girls were as alien as Martiansand any dealings with them were activelydiscouraged. EH Partridge was a formidablefigure standing in the pulpit on Sunday

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the finish. Over the following years, newpeople joined and fell in with this samespirit. They were good company and werenever less than helpful to any of the ridersin difficulty; just how it should be. 44 ridersand 35 bikes took part in the event. At therun’s reunion near Warwick on 31 October2009, a cheque for £22,077.22 was handedto a representative of the Parkinson’sDisease Society.Post-scriptThe 2009 run was supposed to be the last“Land’s End to John O’Groats.” However,we had set ourselves a target of raising£100,000 and, on addition of the final totalwe found ourselves a few quid short! Itseem that there is nothing for it but toresurrect the “End-to-End” one more time,a ride which I fully intend to make some-time in the next two or three years!

Following the letter and photograph fromChris Holmes (CH/S 98-05) in the lastissue of Gigg:news, Chris Hodgen (CH/N85-93) has sent the following:

I read the latest OG news with interestthe other week. I liked the story aboutChris Holmes. I thought I would send youan image that you might find funny! I racedin the same championship as Chris Holmesthis year; he came 2nd in the championshipand I came 3rd. It shows me in the whitecar trying to overtake Holmsey who didn’tlike it and pushed me on the grass!!

Nice to see 2 OGs still fighting it out in anational racing championship, even if I amabout 14 years older than him!

Velocette, a Norton and aVincent. We stayed overnight inPerth and rode on to Wick thenext day to meet up with therest of the group.Sunday 24 May: we all rode upto the start at John O’Groats,then to Inverness - dry butwindy weather.Monday 25 May: Inverness toHelensburgh via Dumfries –appalling weather and we all gotrather wet.Tuesday 26 May: made our wayto Windermere via the KirkstonePass, encountering lightshowers on the way. We stayedtwo nights in Windermere, plan-ning to have a ride around the Lake Districtfor the benefit of our southern members.Unfortunately the heavy rain made thisimpractical, so we took the opportunity fora day’s R&R.Thursday 28 May: the rain stopped and theweather improved as we rode to our nextstop at Stafford via Sedbergh, Skipton,Glossop and Buxton. At Sedbergh we werejoined briefly by my younger son, Julian,on his Honda VFR, who rode with us as faras Skipton. We even got some sunshine forwhich we were extremely grateful.Friday 29 May: we set off down the A49 inglorious weather for our next stop inTaunton. The ride through Leominster,Hereford, Chepstow and Avonmouth wasvery pleasant.Saturday 30 May: our final day and lovelyweather once again – a most pleasant ridevia Bude and Penzance to Land’s End. Weall enjoyed our meal at the Land’s EndHotel and a beautiful sunset made a fittingend to a memorable trip.Sunday 31 May: we said our farewellsbefore riding our separate ways. I rode toLooe to visit an old friend and co-driverfrom my rallying days, then continued toLaunceston to stay a couple of nights withold friends at the Launceston SteamRailway.Tuesday 2 June: Time to head for home.The A30 to Exeter then the M5 toTewkesbury with the Triumph runningsmoothly at a steady 60 mph with 40 psi oilpressure. From Tewkesbury we made ourway to Leominster and onto the A49.Shrewsbury and Whitchurchsoon rolled by. Soon it wasM56, M6, M62 to Worsleyand home. Total mileage forthe round trip was 2087 milesand the Triumph ran fault-lessly.During the first ride, a spiritdeveloped between the riderswith the common objective ofgetting every rider and bike to

In May 2009 Robert Grant (CH/N 39-45)completed a charity ride from JohnO’Groats to Land’s End and back on a 1949Triumph speed twin in aid of Parkinson’sDisease, with the Vintage Motor CycleClub. Bob wrote to Gigg:news in January:

The Vintage Motorcycle Club “End toEnd” Run 2009I have been a classic car and motorcycleenthusiast for a great many years and havealways enjoyed long journeys, whether ontwo wheels or four, in this country orabroad. An opportunity presented itself in1991 when a number of us from theVintage Motorcycle Club decided to ridefrom Land’s End to John O’ Groats to raisemoney for charity. The run was a greatsuccess with everybody who took partmanaging to make the finishing line. Werepeated the run in 1994, 1997 and 2003,raising in excess of £70,000 for the BritishHeart Foundation and Parkinson’s DiseaseSociety. It was always considered easier todo the run starting in Scotland as many ofthe riders said it felt like going downhill!

The first two runs I completed on‘Katie’, a 1949 Triumph ‘speed twin’ that Ihave owned for 34 years; the other runswere completed on my son Nigel’s HondaCBR 1000 and my BMW R90S, owing toterminal failures on the Triumph on theway to the start.

This year it was decided to run the eventfor the final time with the aim of increasingour fund-raising to £100,000 or above ifpossible. The money from this trip wouldonce again be donated to the Parkinson’sDisease Society. Having taken part in theprevious four runs, the final event was amust – what better way to celebrate my80th birthday and the Triumph’s 60th yearthan by completing the run again!“End-to-End” Diary 2009Friday 22 May: Katie and I rode up to thestart with three companions riding a

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Trust at Bradford Royal Infirmary.

Picture Caption Competition

Photograph courtesy of John Lockwood

Ideas to the Editor: [email protected]

The Careers & Work Experience Department at Giggleswick Schoolis very busy as usual. Paul Adams has taken over as WorkExperience Co-ordinator from last September and whilst he hasbeen a teacher of business studies and economics at the school forover 9 years, he is delighted to have taken on this new role. ‘We allknow the substantial benefits to students and employers of workexperience and I look forward to facilitatingthis for as many pupils as possible,’ says Paul.He has already started using the OG databaseto try and match students to employers and heis very grateful to the 52 OGs who have alreadyticked the ‘Work Experience’ box on theirreturns. Offering work experience to a currentstudent at Giggleswick is one of the mostimportant ways in which you can help theSchool. If you feel you might be able to assistus in this way, please [email protected] or fill in yourdetails on www.giggonline.com

Paul works closely with Anne Coward, whohas been the Head of Careers at the school forsome years now. Anne has been helping theUpper Sixth students to complete theirUniversity applications and if this year isanything to go by, places at the most presti-gious Universities are going to be increasinglycompetitive. In some cases a work experienceplacement can make all the difference and thestaff and students at Giggleswick are verygrateful to OGs for the help they have so kindlyoffered. Anne will also be organising anotherCareers & Higher Education Week beginning on

5 July, so please contact her if you might be able to help with this,especially with the Interview Day on Wednesday 7 July when shewill need about 20 interviewers working in pairs to give allmembers of the Lower 6th (Year 12) two interviews during the day.Anne can be contacted by phone on 01729 893144 or [email protected]

Work experience and careers advice – can you help?

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Seven OGs took up the challenge presented by Geoffrey Dyson’sphotograph:A G McIntosh (CH/N 37-48), W Harrison (CH/T 33-40), B VTipping (CH/St 42-47), J T Wright (CH/St 39-44), H D Haighton(CH/P 40-48), R M Ashworth (CH/St 42-48) and N D Simpson(CH/P 41-49).The staff were all named by almost all correspondents, apart fromthe teacher to Mr Partridge’s left (E), who was named as MrCrawhall by only two of you. The others are:A – Miss Joan Barton (who married L P Dutton), B – Mr K W Wood,C – Mrs Weston (Matron), D – Mr R J Partridge (Head of CatteralHall, elder brother of E H Partridge, Headmaster of Giggleswick), F– Miss Victoria King (who married L H A Hankey), G – SisterMartin.Some have given the boys Christian names and surnames, somesurnames only and some with initials. Suggestions so far:Back row: 1 – ??, 2 – Peter Hedges, 3 – Geoff Dyson, 4 – Paul

Stephenson? Jowett?, 5 – P Wright, 6 – Billy Atkinson, 7 – DavidHaighton, 8 – Peter Tyler, 9 – Murray Dyson, 10 – Hugh Moore,11– Williamson, 12 – Ellison, 13 – J Whittaker, 14 – J R Jameson,15 – Rob Collett, 16 – Schellenberg, 17 – RC Grant, 18 – ??

Second row: 19 – ??, 20 – J D Hustler?, 21 – ??, 22 – H Hill, 23 –Brian Duckworth, 24 – Simpson, 25 – B Carter, 26 – AGMcIntosh, 27 – Halstead, 28 – ??, 29 – Sampson, 30 – K Wood,31 – Tim Hepworth, 32 – John Mitchell, 33 – Dowall?, 34 – ??,35 – Sykes? 36 – RM Ashworth, 37 – David Alvin, 38 – PeterHartley

Third row: 39 – Keith Leeming, 40 – Ken Monkman, 41 – MikeLaffoley, 42 – MM Roberts, 43 – HA Lane, 44 – LG Barber, 45 –Entwhistle, 46 – G Atherton, 47 – M Atherton, 48 – Wynne-Edwards, 49 – ?, 50 – D Whittaker, 51 – Morris, 52 – ??, 53 –Ellis?, 54 – Sutcliffe?

Seated: 55 – NF Stewart, 56 – Robin Machell, 57 – Lyles, 58 – ??Front row: 59 – Jowett, 60 – ??, 61 – ??, 62 – ??, 63 – ??, 64 – Walker,

65 – ??, 66 – ??, 67 – Alvin Jnr?, 68 – ??, 69 – ??, 70 – RalphWynn, 71 – Davidson?, 72 – ??, 73 – BV Tipping.

The photograph was taken in the summer term of 1941. Iwonder whether anyone can fill in the missing names – the originalcorrespondent perhaps?

Some letters accompanied the suggested names:H David Haighton (CH/P 40-48) writes:

I am sure there are many who can put names to faces in yourPicture Conundrum 13, but I offer my contribution on the enclosedsheet.

I would confirm that this is the summer term of 1941, probablyjust having reached my 11th birthday. I am sure we had moreteaching staff than those pictured on the photograph, though manyhad to give their services to a greater cause at that time, i.e. the war.We did have others such as Mr Holligan and Mr Lake, who werebased in Big School but graced our lessons, teaching maths andFrench respectively.

The discipline was very strict and there was a limited choice offood, but the excitement and enjoyment of the Christmas Party’sdelights will remain in my memory for ever.W (Bill) Harrison (T 33-40) writes concerning Picture Conundrum13:

‘I regret that I have not kept very close contact with the school,except for occasional attendances at OG dinners, originally at theEngineers Club in Manchester and more recently at PleasingtonGolf Club. However, your Picture Conundrum No.13 presents achallenge I cannot resist. There is a long story behind your photo-graph, which could be subtitled: Gigg at War and How it Coped(Chapter 1).

Throughout my years at school I was always referred to as‘Harry’ and it was only when I joined the army that I got my properChristian name. At the age of 18 my supposed speciality in classicscame to a grinding halt when the universities suspended theteaching of classics for the duration of hostilities, so there was noimmediate prospect for me other than the army. However, pendingmy call-up, I took a part-time job in Settle. For the rest of my daysand nights I was retained at the school as a general factotum,helping to cover gaps which were beginning to appear on the staff

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Three swift responses from Mark Harwood (N 72-76), Simon Dixon (CH/P 69-76) and Keith Pearce (CH/St 67-76) and his wife Maikisoon resolved this one:Back row: Mark Harwood, Simeon Marshall (CH/S 68-76), Anthony Greenwood (CH/C 67-76), Mark Garland (P 70-75), Tim Jackson (M

73-77), Simon Dixon, Graham Clarke (P 71-76), Brian Stubbs (CH/N 70-78).Front row: Mark Thurmott (CH/N 67-77), Neil Robertson (CH/C 69-78), Chris Holland (CH/St 70-76), Avtar Dhillon (C 71-76), Guy Griffiths

(N 71-76).Mark Harwood writes: ‘I could have died on seeing the photo – my wife was so pleased because when tidying up some 12-15 years agowe must have thrown out the photos of the Review; the group picture I had we had all written our names on. When I was 40 she wastrying to find it for the party, along with the others which had been thrown out…’

Simon Dixon had the most complete recall of the names, but also sent a further picture with his letter: ‘I was delighted to find that thepicture conundrum was a photo taken of ‘The Tiller Girls’ who performed in the end of year Review in 1976.

I played the compère, a character for which I drew much inspiration from Larry Grayson. I do remember that my opening line was,“Ooooh, aren’t these trousers tight!!” It’s a good job I was Captain of Rugby that year or I might not have got away with it.

I attach a photo – the hair style, baggy trousers and platform shoes are all very 70s!

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due to the demands of national service. This involved me in a rangeof supervisory duties, fire-watching, air raid patrols and, in anemergency, I even took the occasional impromptu class. ‘Firewatching’ was a nightly duty on top of the Science Block, manned(two hours on and two hours off) by the OTC and others.

In late 1940, at about the time that the army was being evacu-ated from Dunkirk, I was assigned to Catteral Hall and I had a roomin the attic which was ideal for fire-watching, because the red skiesover the Manchester blitz and its bomb explosions were clearlyvisible.

Now for your challenge! After 70 years my memory is not whatit used to be, but here goes…

The staff from l to r: (1) Joan Barton (later Mrs LP Dutton) wasSecretary to the Headmaster, but was also responsible for super-vising those boys who slept in a dormitory at the Headmaster’shouse and for shepherding them to air raid shelters, as wasfrequently required; (2) several people has already said, ‘It is you.’,but, although there is a very convincing likeness, I never aspired towearing a gown; (3) Mrs Weston was Matron, who knew all aboutration cards, fed us and kept the place ticking; (4) Mr Partridge wasSenior Master (somewhat disabled) and a brother of theHeadmaster; (5) I am doubtful, but could it be Bertie Wheel (?); (6)Victoria ‘Tory’ King (later Mrs L H A Hankey). Another face I wouldhave expected to see was Mrs Evans, a charming lady, who wasalways prepared to be a second mother to all and sundry.

In the early part of ’41 my attention was diverted to Big Schooland at one time or another I lived in Howson’s, the Music Cottages,

Style (assisting Mr Dutton) and for some time in the vacant ShuteHousemaster’s accommodation. My attention was further divertedto the outside world when, several times a week, I would collecthalf a dozen of the old Lee Enfield rifles from the armoury and betransported in a rather battered van to nearby villages. Drawing onmy experiences in the OTC, my task was to instruct farm hands andothers who had been recruited into the newly-formed Home Guard.This was England’s answer to potential invasion, but as yet theyhad no weapons, no uniform and their organisation was still some-what patchy. The instruction was pretty basic: how to hold it, howto load it, how to aim it, how to fire it. ‘If you have nothing else,use a pitchfork’ was a contribution made by Winston Churchill –desperate advice given at a desperate time. At that stage we nevergot involved with live ammunition, but I presume that someoneelse took that on after I had left. I was always rewarded with a pintof beer at the local pub and taken back to school for fire watching,etc.

Minor air raid warnings were a matter of routine, but in Juneand July Manchester and Liverpool experienced a second major‘blitz’. In September ’41 I received my call-up papers. I said mygoodbyes to Giggleswick, wishing them well for the stressful daysahead, and joined the army. For quite some time I enjoyed theluxury of a full night’s sleep on a regular basis. If I have got it allright, I can only suggest that the photograph was perhaps taken inlate 1940 or early ’41… or maybe my memory has not stood up tothe test.

Yours sincerely

www.giggleswick.org.uk

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This edition’s picture conundrum was taken by thelate Bill Brocklebank in the old Chemistry LectureTheatre (later the AV Room) in about 1973 or ’74. Cananyone come up with a more exact timing and thenames of all the boys?

Random Vengeance exiting the aircraft over Hibaldstow.

The team on the podium, from left to right, Dave West, Deborah Bould, Rachel Stott,Alister Bould and John Williamson.

Getting a Bird’s Eye

View…While his younger brother Matthew was

competing in the Sprint Triathlon World

Championships in Australia, in September

2009, Alister Bould (Ch/M 80-88) and his wife

Deborah represented Great Britain in formation

skydiving. Competing in a team called

Random Vengeance, they returned home with

a bronze medal after 23 teams from as far

away as Greece took part in the European

Skydiving League final near Scunthorpe. Here

he warns, ‘Be careful what you wish for!’

‘In August 2002, my wife bought me a

tandem skydive for my birthday. So started a

journey that would lead to me (and her) repre-

senting Great Britain in a European Skydiving

competition and bringing home a bronze

medal. Only later did I find out that the

instructor I was strapped to on that day and

whose confidence and patience encouraged

us to take up the sport was an OG (Brian

Shaw Ch/S 64-69).

A week later, we went back to the dropzone

near Grange-over-Sands, in Cumbria, and

learnt how to skydive. We were hooked and

the rest is history, as they say. Some 900

jumps later, it is hard to remember what life

was like before we started hurling ourselves

out of aeroplanes. Now we spend most

summer weekends and at least one foreign trip

a year getting our freefall rush.

Our discipline of choice is formation

skydiving. This entails a team of 4 skydivers,

and a cameraflyer who films us, jumping from

10,500 feet and performing as many forma-

tions as possible in 35 seconds. Sometimes

we are scoring over 20, or more than one

formation every two seconds. Our training has

included camps in Arizona where a current

world champion is our coach. In how many

sports can you receive personal training from a

world class athelete?

Skydiving is a fabulous sport. Heading

towards the ground at 120mph has a tendency

to help you forget any other concerns! And

training yourself to be calm as you climb

outside an aircraft two miles up is a useful

technique to deploy against other stresses in

your life. Skydiving has given us a massive

circle of new friends spread across the globe.

I can strongly recommend trying it, even if

only once. If you can’t face jumping out of a

plane, there are now vertical wind tunnels in

Manchester, Bedford and Milton Keynes where

you can try it out indoors. Go on! You never

know, you might just like it.’

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‘MUTATIS MUTANDIS’

OGGS SCOTTISH TOUR SEPTEMBER 14–18, 2009

SPORT

Mutatis mutandis, as Tim Wilman reminded us several times on

this tour, was one of John Dean’s favourite phrases. “Mutatis

mutandis, boy. Put it in your glossary book!” Well, clearly the

young Timothy Wilman did put it in his glossary book, and further-

more, as L P Dutton would have instructed, he read, marked,

learned and inwardly digested it! Being somewhat less erudite

than the said Mr Wilman, when I returned to home base I googled

the phrase. The literal meaning, it appears, is “the things that

should have been changed having been changed.” Latin is a

wonderfully succinct language, – if only I could remember it!

Having learned the meaning of the words, I came to realise that Mr

Wilman had put the phrase into practice on our golf tour, at least

for one day.

On Monday at Lundin Links, playing as Howarth and

Heseltine’s teammate, he was woeful, wayward, dare I say it

whingeing Wilman, wandering in the wilderness. He scored the

grand total of 14 Stableford points, and our team came a miser-

able third out of three. ‘A Mickey Mouse course,’ Mr Wilman

declared. On Tuesday, he rather liked the Ladybank course and

improved on Monday’s performance, his team of Lister, Haggas,

Wilman coming second out of three. Come Wednesday, he

announced that the course at Crail was little better than a field,

failed (I am reliably informed) to play the last three holes, and

succeeded in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory for his Carr

team, who came second to Style in our House competition. On

Thursday we played at Elie for the Paley Cup, the serious business

of the tour. Well, what a transformation! Mutatis mutandis! The

course was superb, it must have been, because Mr Wilman

declared it so. Suddenly we had a new Wilman, a wonderful,

winning, whop it down the middle Wilman. Fourteen points on

Monday became forty two (yes, indeed, 42!) points on Thursday.

Not even Messrs Jefferies and Crossley could compete with this,

and Mr Jefferies had to relinquish his hold on the Paley Cup, a

trophy he had won five times in the previous six years.

So, I hear you ask, what about Friday at Leven Links? Was

there another 42 points from the maestro’s flashing clubs? Well,

no actually – he was back to 21 points, (he appears to score in

multiples of seven) and there were more protestations regarding

the inadequacies of the course. Another Latin phrase comes to

mind. Sic transit gloria!

What else happened on the OGGS grand tour of the kingdom

of Fife? Well, believe it or not, the sun shone for four days of the

five. And we all enjoyed ourselves for five days out of the five

(which is the norm for an OGGS tour). Sadly, three of the original

party of twelve tourists had to drop out of the trip, and we all

missed the fine company, sportsmanship, and smiling faces of Bill

Oddie, Bill Spinks, and Mike Hartley. We hope to see them on tour

again next year, and raised a glass to all our missing friends.

Describing the fortunes and misfortunes of Tim Wilman, I have

perhaps left you wondering about how everybody else fared, and

so here are the results of our competitions.

On Monday, we very cleverly split our nine tourists into 3 teams

of 3 (Bert Wheel would have been proud of us). Anyway, nine

players were counted out, and nine were counted back in, so all

survived. Messrs Lister, Haggas and Jefferies survived better than

the rest, beating Trickey, Crossley and Harwood into second

place, and leaving the Howarth, Wilman and Heseltine trio to

collect the bronze medal (that sounds a lot better than coming

last, doesn’t it??).

On Tuesday, overjoyed with the success of the previous day’s

formula (after all, he was on the winning team), our leader Bill

Haggas decreed that we would play the same competition again

at Ladybank. I think we all would like to put the Ladybank course

in our hold-alls and take it with us on tour every year, it really is a

joy to play it. Unfortunately we didn’t see deer or red squirrels this

year, but the sun shone, and all was well with the world. This time

the team of Harwood, Crossley and Heseltine was victor ludorum

(to maintain the Latin theme).

On Wednesday we played Crail (henceforth known as

Wilman’s field), and Bill Haggas devised a House Competition, the

gross score of each House team to be divided by the number of

players in that team. More advanced mathematics for Mr Wheel’s

protégés!. The Style team kept it simple. It was a one man team,

David Crossley, who kept popping the ball down the middle and

scored 32 points. Even a duffer from Mr Holligan’s class might

have had a chance of calculating the Style team net score. Yes,

well done, you’ve got it! 32 points. The Carr team looked mighty

good on paper, with Messrs Jefferies, Harwood, Howarth and

…well…Wilman. Their score, after several recounts, still worked

out less than the Style team’s 32 points, and Style won the trophy

by half a point. Coming in third were Shute (Trickey and Heseltine),

whilst Messrs Haggas and Lister shunned the limelight and came

in fourth for Nowell. It has to be said that the Nowell and Shute

teams were not in the least perturbed by our lowly positions.

Being true gentlemen, we were quite prepared to let the GIRLS’

houses win!!! Anyway, well played indeed Mr Crossley, and he was

duly presented with the re-designated Cameron Cup at dinner that

night.

Thursday, as mentioned before, found the OGGS tourists in

serious competition (well, as serious as the OGGS tourists ever

get) at Elie golf course. The Paley Cup! OGGS tourists in Scotland

all dream of winning the Paley Cup. In my group I was impressed

to see both David and Nick playing excellent golf, and when Mr

Jefferies pipped Mr Crossley on the eighteenth green to beat him


on countback with 37 points, I must admit that I thought

Mr Jefferies had done it again, and that his local trophy

engraver must be making quite a good living. But it

wasn’t to be. It had been a wonderful sunny day, and it

was a wonderfully sunny, positively beaming, Wilman

who had ‘changed the things that should have been

changed’ and who has taken the trophy home to polish

and cherish until 2010. 42 points! I haven’t got enough

fingers and toes to count that many!

Of course, there was time on the tour to do more than

just eat, drink, laugh, and play golf. On Wednesday, after Crail, we met up

with other OGGS at Crail Harbour. Then Eric Trickey and I found the coastal

path and wandered a short way in the direction of Methyl, watching eider

duck, oyster catchers and a couple of curlews among the rocks and pools

on the shore. It was so peaceful. I must say that the plaintive call of the

curlews brought back vivid memories of summer terms at Giggleswick.

Back to the golf, and to my usual surprise and dismay to find that the

week had flashed by; it was Friday, and we were playing the Roses match

again, this year at Leven Links. There were nine of us, and so unequal

numbers. Once again David Crossley (surely the player of the week based

on his consistency) performed marvellously to score 36 points.

Unfortunately for the Red Rose, the rest of the Lancashire team couldn’t

quite give him enough support, and after several recounts, it was agreed

that Yorkshire had crept home to win a resounding victory by 0.10 of a point.

So once more “Yorkshire” is engraved on the trophy, and Lancashire must

wait until next year before trying again.

If you have read any of my previous reports on OGGS tours, you will

know that I am renowned for the dreaded shanks. I am pleased to report

that the affliction struck me only thrice on this year’s tour. So, does this

mean my golf has finally turned the corner? “Mutatis mutandis Heseltine,

put it in your glossary book boy!” Well, if you want to know that answer to

that question, you’ll have to stir your stumps and come on tour with the

OGGS next year, won’t you?

Paul Heseltine (CH/S 52-62)

OG Rugby v Old Grovians

28 February 2010

This was a new fixture for the OG Rugby XV and

proved to be a successful afternoon.

Another first was that the match was refereed

by a Yr12 (L6 in old money!) girl from Carr House

– Sarah Clough – and she didn’t seem in the least

fazed by the challenge (see picture below).

On a dry, but bitterly cold afternoon, the game

was played in great spirit, with open running rugby

the order of the day, helped in no small measure

by the excellence of the pitch. The score see-

sawed until quite near the end of the match, when

a final converted try saw the OGs home comfort-

ably by 32-18.

We certainly intend to repeat the fixture next

year, but in the meantime the next OG match will

be played on Lord’s on Sunday 10 October

against a Wooden Spoon Society XV. Any OG

interested in playing should contact either Richard

Fall at [email protected] or Robert

Leadbeater at [email protected].

Sunday 7 March

Despite the loss of some key

players, the small squad of nine

girls managed to win their games

in the group stage against Range

High School (50-0), St Bees (32-

15) and Calday Grammar School

(47-0), before succumbing 18-5 to

King’s Macclesfield. Although

disappointed to just miss out on

the huge Gill Burns Trophy, they

were delighted to receive their

runner-up medals from England

player Sarah Hunter. They can now

fairly claim, beyond doubt, that

they are one of the best girls’ 7s

teams in the country.

From left to right: Arian Lawson (C), Ellie

Gorman, Nicky Ehlinger, Katherine Sharp, Lottie

O’Connell, Sophie Patchett, Hannah Edmiston,

Sabrina Damian, Sarah Clough

Girls reach final of inaugural North of England

Rugby 7s Competition


News…News…News…Having spent most of his career to date inthe shoe industry (with Clarks of Somerset)and as Factory Manager for a clothingcompany, Simon Dixon (CH/P 69-76) nowruns his own commercial cleaning businessbased in Bromsgrove. He lives in Malvernand is still playing rugby for the Malvern3rd XV (Oh yes he is!).

Following their wedding last August,Nicola (neé Barber, C 97-02) and TobyCruse (M 95-00) now live close toHarrogate. Nicola is a primary schoolteacher and Toby works for a gardeningbusiness.

Quentin Duckworth (CH/M 77-84) is acommercial property solicitor and lives inAltrincham with his wife Emma and theirtwo sons.

Michael JW Barr (M 73-77), immediatepast President of the OG Club, is now theDeputy Regional Director for the North Eastfor HSBC and is based in Leeds.

Beverley Evans (née Wild, P 76-78) ismarried, with three children, and lives inHampshire.

Lucy Buscall (St 06-08) has successfullycompleted her Foundation Diploma inArt & Design at Leeds College of Art andhas enrolled at Wimbledon College of Artfor their BA (Hons) in Fine Art.

Edward Maley (P 60-64) made a ski tripof 150 miles in the summer of 2009 to thenorthernmost point of Spitsbergen at 80degrees north. The party was rescued byhelicopter after a few days because the shipdue to collect them could not get throughthe ice... Ted is on the right of the groupphotograph (as you look at it).

Peter Stanford (St 80-85) and his wifeVanessa (née Brown, St 82-85) are stillmarried (Peter’s words!), have six childrenand live in Harrogate. They have run theirown business for the past 10 years, initiallyproviding marketing and promotional serv-ices, then manufacturing patented businessgifts in the Far East for sale in Europe andthe USA; currently they are involved in resi-dential and commercial property.

After working for a number of years atRossall School, Duncan Rose (CH/N 80-90), his wife Nina and their three daugh-ters, have moved to Cairo, Egypt, whereDuncan has taken the headship of a BritishSecondary School, which is just over threeyears old and growing fast. [If Sameh El-Ebrashi (CH/M 80-88) is reading this,Duncan would like to hear from you!]

After working his way round the world afew times, Michael Bruce (CH/P 77-84)emigrated to Canada 11 years ago, wherehe married his Canadian/Japanese wifeKaren. They live in Vancouver with theirson Sam and this view of the downtownVancouver skyline is taken from the deck oftheir new home. Michael writes: ‘I stoppedworking about seven years ago to become abuilder/developer. I’m kind of retired now,but we build a new home every year or soto stop me getting bored. It’s rather ironic,as I used to dream at school about retiringat 40 and it actually came true!’

In November 2009 Richard Horsfall (CH/N96-04) won the Midlands heat of the RoyalTelevision Society’s Best FactualProduction, as well as the ‘OverallProduction’ prize, for his ‘Flashmob’ filmof 80 people dancing in the street inLincoln, as part of a documentary for hisfinal year project at the city’s university.Having recruited the dancers via aFacebook group, his team devised aroutine, held rehearsals and, using a gener-ator to power a big amplifier for the music,brought the whole city centre to a standstillwith the routine, which lasted about 30seconds. Richard said, ‘I would love to be aproducer of documentaries, but I also likebeing behind the camera; I just hope theaward opens some doors in respect of myfuture career.’ The finals of the NationalRoyal Television Society Awards will bestaged in London in May, so OGs might liketo keep en eye out for the results.

Jeremy Hopkinson (CH/C 73-84),awarded the OBE in 2008 for his charityfundraising work, has now broken throughthe £2m barrier. He has nominated MarieCurie Cancer Care as his charity for 2010and has agreed to be auctioneer at a further25 events. Jeremy has also recently estab-lished his own estate agency in Harrogate.

Congratulations to David A Stockdale QC(CH/S/M 60- 69) who was appointed as aCircuit Judge w.e.f. 15 March 2010.

Congratulations also to Tom Coxon (P 09)who has been offered a place at the LecoqInternational Theatre School in Paris. Thisis an amazing achievement as Lecoq is oneof the most famous Theatre training centresin the world. Ordinarily Lecoq only acceptsstudents who are 21 or older, but Tom'spersistence and talent have gained himearly entry. Tom(centre in picture)was a member ofthe With Wingstheatre groupwho performed atthe Sunday TimesNational StudentDrama Festivallast year. He wasalso a veryathletic Puck inthe School’s recent production of AMidsummer Night's Dream.

John S Livingstone (CH/N 66-74) is aSystems Administrator at the EuropeanBioinformatics Institute and lives inCambridge with his wife Catherine. Theyhave three daughters. John previouslyworked for Marconi Avionics, LucasAerospace and Domino PrintingSciences.

Mitchell Rose and Chris Ewbank (bothcurrently L6 N), members of the RAFSection of Giggleswick CCF, wereawarded Gliding Scholarships earlier this

year. They attended the Volunteer GlidingSchool at RAF Linton on Ouse over a seriesof weekends and are to be congratulated ongaining their Silver Wings for their first soloflight during the last weekend in January.

Lawrence Pope (CH/P 79-82) is ExecutiveVice President of Administration and Chief

HR Officer forHalliburton, where hehas global leadershipresponsibilities for HR;Health, Safety andE n v i r o n m e n t ;Operational Excellence;S u s t a i n a b l eDevelopment; Supply

Chain; Security; Real Estate Services;Corporate Aviation and Corporate Affairs.He also oversees Halliburton’s Infor mationTechnology function and is a member ofthe Company’s Executive Committee.Lawrence lives in Kingwood, Texas.

Congratulations to Tony Haygarth (CH/N58-66) who has been awarded a silvermedal in the over 60s category in the WestYorkshire Cross Country League, in whichhe runs for Valley Striders, a Leeds-basedteam. The medal is in recognition of hisachievements over the whole season – fourcompetitive races.

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Thanks to friendsreunited.com and asubscription I had forgotten about, she gotin touch with me in autumn 2008 just as Iwas considering returning to East Asia insearch of more work. Of course I didn’t goback to Korea to teach and before long Iwas living with Catheryn and step-daughter Sophie (from her previousmarriage). I proposed to her in April 2009on top of The London Eye and we hostedour wedding reception in my parents’walled garden in Hovingham.

I was an Art Scholar at Giggleswick andI do still paint (I sold the late RichardWhiteley one of my paintings of theChapel), but mostly now I work in newmedia as a web content manager.

Nicola Barber (C 97-02) married TobyCruse (M 95-00) on 1 August 2009 at StJames’s Church, Birstwith and you can seefrom the photograph below that many OGswere present to celebrate the occasion(possibly some sort of record?). Tobywrites: ‘1st August was also Yorkshire Day,so there were many flat caps being wornand unfortunately some miserableYorkshire weather.’

OGs pictured are, from left to right:Ben Cruse (M 92-97, groomsman), Jason

Hornby (S 92-94), Nick Fish (N 95-00,groomsman), Elizabeth Hall (C 97-02),Sophie Fish (née Atkinson, St 97-02, brides-maid), James Bray (N 95-00), JenniferClaxton (C 97-02, bridesmaid), Toby, OliviaSanderson (C 95-00), Natasha Robinson St00-02), Rebecca Jefferies (C 95-00), Nicola,Amber Cruse (C 01-03, bridesmaid), JennyWilkinson (St 97-00), William Berry (M 95-95), Sarah Peacock 98-00), Michael Barber(S 95-00, groomsman), Arthur Adams (N95-00), Amy Bateson (St 95-00), TomBarton (M 95-00, best man), EdwardBrownson (M 95-00), Michael Scriven (P95-00, groomsman), William Robinson (P94-99, groomsman) and John Harrington (S94-98). Also present but not pictured wasOliver Cruse (M 91-96, groomsman andMaster of Ceremonies).

All photographs were taken by OG BenThornton (N 96-01) of

www.focusofattention .com.

David Allen (P 72-74), having spent mostof his career working in the film and televi-sion industry, is now a senior lecturer onthe BA (Hons) Design for Film andTelevision programme at Nottingham TrentUniversity.

Andrew Henderson-Gaynor (CH/C 79-87), while still working as an actor, alsofound time to be a referee at the DubaiInternational 7s Tournament last Novemberand a heli-ski mountain guide inSwitzerland earlier this year.

James Burnet (CH/S 77-81), after 12 yearsin the Royal Engineers, married his wifeJan and they now live in Warwickshire,where James coaches the county’s U14rugby squad.

Edward Percival (Yr 7 Ct) has beenselected for the National Children'sOrchestra as a trombonist for the third yearin succession. Edward started his instru-mental career in Yr 2 at Mill House whereall pupils were introduced to the violin.Around the same time he chose to learn thetrombone as well, and has gone fromstrength to strength, auditioning success-fully for the National Children'sOrchestra when he was 10..

BirthsTo Corrina Duncan (néeJohnson, St 89-91) and herhusband John, a daughter, IsobelMary, born on 30 September 2009,a sister for Freddie and Monty.

To Joy Ratcliffe (CH/C 86-95)and her partner, Rich Pegler, adaughter, Layla Alice Maria, bornon 7 December 2009.

MarriagesPeter Orange-Bromhead (M 88-93)married Catheryn Newton at All Saints’Church, Hovingham, on 22 August 2009.

Peter writes: Our story is rather specialbecause whilst we literally grew uptogether on the same street in Escrick, nearYork, we hadn’t met for 30 years until wemet again a year before we married. On herfifth birthday I gave her a simple ring,which she kept and was wearing on a chainround her neck when we first met up again.

Charles Ford (S93-98) marriedValerie Nierlichin Vienna on 22August 2009.

Other OGsattending werehis brotherMartin (S 90-95) and sisterKatherine (St90-95).

N a t a s h aWolstenholme(St 90-95)married IanForsyth on 11September 2009at FountainsAbbey.

DeathsCapt. HL Pratt (RN) (C 38-41) died in May

2003, aged 79.

Lindsay Grant Barber (CH/St 39-46)died on 17 July 2007, aged 78.

James CF Chorlton (CH/S 53-63) diedon 31 December 2008, aged 64.

Thomas M Thornber (CH/C 53-60)died on 10 January 2009, aged 65.

Michael Victor Allen (S 37-40) diedon Friday, 18 September, 2009, aged86.

He served with distinction in theRAF as a Lancaster Bombardier inWorld War II, receiving theDistinguished Flying Cross. Heemigrated toAmerica and

became a U.S. Citizen.Employed by ChevronGeosciences for thirtyyears as a computerprogrammer, Michaelretired toNacogdoches, Texas,where he ran a localvideo transfer busi-ness, HeritageProductions. He is survived by his belovedwife of nearly fifty-six years, Mary Francis‘Miffy’ Allen; and his son, Michael ShaneAllen.

Tim Barritt (CH/St 71-79) died on 2November 2009, aged 48.

After leaving Giggleswick, Tim joinedhis father Chris in his business supplyingpromotional textiles and engraved glass-ware. They were later joined by Tim's elderbrother David (OG), and after their fatherdied in 1985, they continued the businessas Barritt Associates Ltd in Blackburn. Overthe last ten years, the business developed


with Barritt Glass Print, printing glasses forevents throughout the UK. David retired afew years ago, and Tim continued to buildthe business, now based in Longridge,Preston, with it achieving it’s mostsuccessful period last year..

Tim married Janet in 1991, and theylived very happily with their two goldenretrievers in Longridge, near Preston. Heplayed for Blackburn RUFC for a while, buthis main sporting passions were squashand golf, and his beloved ManchesterUnited.

It is of interest to note that there was aBarritt brother at Giggleswick from 1955,David R Barritt, until Tim left in 1979,those in between being John C Barritt andChris Barritt.

Iain H Gaunt (P 63-66) died on 5November 2009, aged 60.

Kenneth J Bury (1 Aug 1927-20 Nov2009) (Paley 40-45) – Praepostor, XVColour, XI Colour, Librarian, Sgt JTC – diedon 20 November 2009, aged 82.

The words below are adapted from theeulogy delivered at Ken’s funeral service byhis son Roger and daughter Jane; theyinclude also some brief observations fromhis brother Michael (OG – Paley 42-48).

Roger: Dad was born on 1 August 1927 inthe family home in Oswaldtwistle and hisupbringing was, I suspect, rather strict.After early schooling locally, he went, asdid his brother Mike later, to Giggleswick.It was at Giggleswick that he really firstfound his own feet. It retained a lasting andspecial place in his affections throughouthis life and it was a strange coincidencethat his OG magazine, Gigg:news, landedwithin a day or two of his death, featuringa picture of him on the front row of theReunion of his House, held last summer,with a further photograph of him sittingcontentedly in his wheelchair, looking outover the 1st XI pitch, the scene of some ofhis early cricketing highlights during theearly 1940s.

The School made a big impression onhim and he in return prospered and flow-ered. In retirement he willingly gave backto the School of his time, contacts and skillsin reordering the Giggleswick SchoolRegister, just loving the contact it gave himwith his formative years. At school, histalents as a sportsman came to the fore andhe played not only cricket, tennis and fives,

but honed also his not inconsiderableprowess as full back for the 1st XV.’

Michael: ‘He played at full back in the XVfor two years, colours in the first year, andremembered in particular the matchesagainst Stonyhurst. As far as the XI wasconcerned, he was also awarded colours inthe first year and was opening bat andwicket keeper for both years.’

Jane: ‘It is to Dad that I owe my love ofsport. He would spend hours with us aschildren teaching us the finer points ofcatching and throwing balls, telling us toput a plate under them and not try to catchthem like a crocodile. If there was a TestMatch taking place when he was on one ofhis regular trips to Geneva, he’d always askMum to put me on the phone when hewanted the score.’

Roger: His school career had other high-lights, not least of which was his proudboast that, as a member of the OTC, he hadtravelled over Ribblehead Viaduct in thedark, sitting on the buffer of an empty railtruck in a successful attempt to get behindenemy lines. This early sign of initiativestood him in good stead when he movedfrom school to National Service and wascommissioned into the Royal Artillery rightat the end of the War. He was on embarka-tion leave to fight in the Far East whenJapan surrendered, so was sent instead tohelp police Palestine in the difficult periodprior to Israel’s independence.

After demobilization he went to whatwas then Salford Technical College to studytextiles and then joined the family firm.Textiles were in his blood and he remainedinterested in and knowledgeable about hisoriginal trade all his life; no shopping expe-dition for fabrics, from carpets to clothing,was complete without Dad’s trademarkrolling of the intended purchase betweenthumb and forefinger to assess its quality.

His 60-year relationship with Mum hadalso begun after they met in the café of theOdeon cinema in Accrington. The earlyrelationship survived not only Dad’s love ofthe Marx Brothers and the Goon Show (twostrains of humour that largely passed Mumby), but also instances of Dad’s insistenceon punctuality – especially one early outingto the Rugby Club Dinner Dance, when Dadpicked up Mum so early they had the venueto themselves for over an hour before theband turned up, never mind any otherguests. They married in 1952.

But the Lancashire textile world waschanging inexorably and the family millfinally closed in the mid-1960s. Dad turnedhis hand to new skills and built asuccessful, happy second career withDuPont, the American multinational,resulting in moves to various places in theNorth of England, several years in theMidlands and even two years in America.Following retirement, they moved back toLancashire.’

Jane: ‘Church always played a big part inDad and Mum’s life, wherever they lived.Dad served many years as PCC Secretary,he’d been involved in Church Missionsand, when it existed, in the Church ofEngland Men’s Society. He had also servedas a Bishop’s Messenger for the thenBishop of Blackburn, Charles Claxton, andmore recently as a member of the DiocesanResources Group.’

Roger: ‘But how do I remember him as afather? Always loving and supportive,certainly helping his largely innumerateson with those tricky subjects – maths andphysics – which I found so very taxing.There were many nights when his calls toMum from hotels across Europe werehijacked by me wanting help with home-work.

In sport he was a thoroughly difficultopponent… he simply had an excellent eyefor a ball, confusing many an opponent byplaying cricket right-handed, golf left-handed, and tennis and squash with eitherhand… you were always serving to hisforehand!

I only remember hearing two sets ofcross words between my parents, both ofwhich arose from spirited enthusiasm onDad’s part. On the second occasion, at theirhome in south Leicestershire, Dad decidedhe would sweep the chimney in the sittingroom. He was completely unqualified forthe task. Mum was out. He borrowed a setof rods and brushes and then proceedednot only to get the brush wedged three-quarters of the way up the chimney, butalso to cover the entire sitting room with agentle quarter-inch dusting of soot whichsettled on every surface and made thenotes on the piano indistinguishable fromeach other. When Mum returned, Dad wason the roof, having tied himself to thechimney stack with the tow rope from theback of his car and was attempting toretrieve the wedged brush with his pitchingwedge which he was pushing down thechimney pot. To those watching hisexploits from the village green his reputa-tion rose immeasurably that day: a view Ican safely say that was not shared byMum!

Jane: Dad was kindness personified, a truegentleman in every sense of the word.

Hamish McL Raffan (C 33-38) died inNovember 2009 in Guelph, Canada, aged89.

He had a distinguished medical career:MD MRCP FRCP MB ChB (Aberdeen)Surg.Lt. RNVR (44-46).

H William Whiteley (CH/C 34-41) died on14 December 2009, aged 88.

Brian Parsons (T/S 42-50) died on 21December 2009, aged 78. He is survived byhis widow Yvonne, sons Mark and Michaeland grandchildren Andrew and Caroline.[See under Famous OGs in this edition].


Gerald M Capstick (CH/C 51-59) died in December 2009,aged 70.

Geoffrey H Wooler (N 24-30)(24 Nov 1911-7 Jan 2010) MAMB ChB MD FRCS TD (N 24-30 – Praepostor, Sgt OTC) diedon 8 January 2010, aged 98.

The tribute below is based,almost entirely and with permis-sion, on a long obituary whichappeared in The Yorkshire Poston 9 January 2010.

GEOFFREY WOOLER, who hasdied in his 99th year, broughtdistinction to his native city ofLeeds with his pioneering openheart surgery. He was at theforefront of work with the heart-lung machine, and instrumental in bringingone of three prototypes to the GeneralInfirmary at Leeds.

He spent most of his working life in thefront line, initially as a Royal Army MedicalCorps surgeon immediately behind thebattlefront after landing in Algeria with theFirst Army in November, 1942. He thentook part in the invasions of Pantelleria,Sicily and mainland Italy, operating on menwounded in a series of battles, includingMonte Cassino, where he set up a fieldhospital in ‘Inferno Valley’. Demobilised in1946, he was a Lt-Col and had beenmentioned in dispatches.

After the war, he occupied a differentkind of front line, as one of the foremostsurgeons seeking remedies for heartdisease. His advances at Leeds, where hebecame Consultant Cardio-ThoracicSurgeon (1948-76), earned him a place inthe pantheon of leaders in this challengingfield. In 1957 he spearheaded one of theworld's greatest surgical advances, whenhis team performed a successful open-heartoperation, the repair of a mitral valve.

His contribution has been recognised byhis admiring peers. When William SStoney, Emeritus Professor of Cardiac andThoracic Surgery at Vanderbilt University,Nashville, USA, published his authoritativePioneers of Cardiac Surgery in 2008, heincluded an account of Mr Wooler’s career,and added a dedication to a presentationcopy: ‘For Geoffrey Wooler FRCS – thankyou for being my mentor and inspiration topursue a life doing cardiac surgery.’

Geoffrey Wooler’s wonderful ability formaking friends was exercised freely amonghis fellow surgeons. They termed them-selves the Wooler Society, meeting fromtime to time at his country home at WestBurton, Wensleydale. Some sent him pupilsfor training, and those young men nowoccupy important surgical posts throughoutthe world. In 1989 the Wooler Society putup a plaque commemorating his work at

the entrance to the Infirmary.One associate was Marian Ion Ionescu,

who escaped from Ceausescu’s Romania,and, welcomed and encouraged by MrWooler, settled in Leeds, where he toobecame a distinguished surgeon, and agenerous benefactor to medicine in the city.He calls his old mentor a great andgenerous gentleman, surgeon, innovatorand teacher, and a distinguished pioneer inthe field of heart and lung surgery. Thesetributes, and many others from colleaguesand patients who owe their lives to hisskill, demonstrate how Mr Wooler, in a longand distinguished life, dedicated himself tothe service of others and won hearts as wellas repaired them. He surely has a placeamong the Yorkshire greats.

Another of those greats, Bob Appleyard,the cricketer, was a patient of his when, in1952, the year after he had taken 200 first-class wickets in his first full season, hesuccumbed to tuberculosis. Mr Woolercarried out a life-saving operation, and thetwo men became close friends.

Geoffrey Wooler was born on November24, 1911, into a well-to-do Leeds family. Hisgrandfather set up as a sanitary engineer inthe 19th century, and Mr Wooler’s fatherdeveloped the business. Their horse-drawncarts, and later their lorries and vans, wereemblazoned with the claim ‘We TestDrains’ in letters so large they resembledmobile billboards. Mr Wooler attributed hisfamily’s fortune to the success of thisslogan, and the excellence of the firm’swork in subterranean Leeds.

He had an elder brother, Edwin JohnLoy Wooler (OG, N 20-24, Chairman ofGovernors at Giggleswick 1969-75), whowas Lord Mayor of Leeds in 1963, and ayounger sister, Joyce. His mother wasblind, and he was cared for by a nursemaidwho taught him to knit and crochet, whichproved invaluable in his professional life.

He was educated at Leeds GrammarSchool and Giggleswick School (N 1924-

30). Going up to Selwyn College,Cambridge in 1930, he beganreading law, but didn’t enjoy it andswitched to medicine at the end ofhis second term. After graduation,he began clinical work at theLondon Hospital. Called up in1939, he went to North Africa withthe 70th General Hospital, andbegan three years of front-linesurgery during which he operatedon some 3,000 men wounded inbattle.

He returned to Leeds GeneralInfirmary in 1947 at the invitationof the distinguished surgeon PhilipAllinson, taking up a consultancyin the department of thoracicsurgery. He was friendly with DenisMelrose, who was developing a

heart-lung machine at the HammersmithHospital. The Nuffield Foundation fundedthree prototypes, one of which was allo-cated to Mr Wooler at Leeds.

There followed a long period of experi-mentation, but eventually Mr Wooler andhis team felt sufficiently confident to startoperating on humans. Their success inmaking the heart accessible to surgeryaroused international interest. Pig valveswere used, and it was not unknown for MrWooler to collect fresh supplies from aLeeds abattoir in his chauffeur-driven RollsRoyce. Among the many papers andlectures he was asked to give, he delivereda paper in Naples, as co-Chairman of theItalian Surgical Society, sharing the plat-form with the eminent heart surgeon,Christian Barnard.

Their work was publicised locally byFrank Laws, a reporter for the YorkshireEvening Post, and nationally in 1958, whenBBC TV screened Your Life in their Handsfrom the General Infirmary, which includeda demonstration of the heart-lung machineand an interview with a woman who hadundergone a successful operation theprevious year.

Mr Wooler retired from the NationalHealth Service in 1974. Subsequently heopened a restaurant in Headingley, Leeds,an adventure that he recorded in hiswonderfully anecdotal biography, Pig in aSuitcase (Smith Settle, 1999), under theheading ‘How Not to Run a Restaurant’.The premises are now devoted to Thaicuisine, and Mr Wooler, who spent his lateryears in the house next door, was in thehabit of entertaining his many friendsthere, occasions full of fun, good conversa-tion, gossip and enlightenment.

[See under Famous OG Series in Gigg:newsNo.54 Nov.2008].

Katy Rose (née Wilson) who was amember of staff at Catteral Hall from 1997-2002, died on 1 April 2010.

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

Martin house hospice, Wetherby, North Yorkshire.

Founded in 1968, The Old Giggleswickian Lodge welcomes to its fraternal ranks OGs and staff membersof Giggleswick School and Catteral Hall. We also welcome masonic visitors to our meetings. For further information please contact:Master: Ian Shevill (Staff 1968-2004) 01729 823764 or [email protected]: Peter H Thornton (Paley 1978-1983) 01535 640252 or [email protected]: 2nd Tuesday September, November, March and [email protected] (l as in Lodge at the front of the address)

2010 Annual Fund

THANK YOU

Over 700 OGs have already given their support to the

2010 Annual Fund telethon, raising £70,545 over the

Easter vacation towards projects across the School.

The Annual Fund has now raised over £90,000 for

projects including music, drama, sport, bursaries, our

Gifted & Talented Programme and the Early Years’ Unit.

While the Theatre remains our top priority there are many

areas of the School which will benefit from the ongoing

generosity of OGs, parents and other friends of the

School. For more information about the 2010 Annual

Fund please visit the website or contact Andrew Beales,

Foundation Director.

Richard Whiteley Theatre :Act 1 complete

The finishing touches were put to the first phase of the RichardWhiteley Theatre during the February Half Term. Lighting bars,drapes and a project screen have all been added to complete theinitial work on the project. So a big ‘Thank You’ must go to all OGsand their families who have helped in any way to make this possible.

The theatre provides an exciting, high quality performing artsvenue which will be used by pupils and the wider public. It is plannedto host a range of events including cinema, music and drama. Theprogramming for the new venue will be controlled by the theatre'snew Artistic Director, Helen Lindley. A theatre graduate from BrettonHall, Helen has taught at Giggleswick for four years, before whichshe was a founding member of the Paper Birds theatre company.Her professional experiences have already transformed our pupils’ability to devise and deliver productions, especially of physicaltheatre; she also has a wide knowledge of the world of touringtheatre. She is looking forward to planning the opening season ofevents in the near future, as well as the official opening of the theatrelater in 2010.

If you would like a look round, please do call in to Reception atSchool and one of the Foundation and Alumni team (Andrew Beales,David Fox or Sian Driver) will be delighted to give you a tour.

First Interval –

Preparation for Act 2

Fundraising continues for the

second stage of this development,

for which we need to raise £300,000

to provide all the necessary lighting

and technical equipment, together

with new dressing room facilities

and a studio theatre to the rear of

the main auditorium. Thanks to the

continued generosity of our alumni,

parents and friends, we have

already achieved £25,000 towards

this target. We hope very much to

raise sufficient funds for work on this

next phase to begin during the

summer. If you would like to be

associated with this, please contact

our Foundation Director, Andrew

Beales, on 01729 893008 or

[email protected]

Richard Whiteley Theatre

Community Open Evening SuccessAround 100 people from a number of local community arts groups came to

a Community Open Evening held by the school on Tuesday 9 February. The

aim of the event was to give local people the opportunity to have a look

around the new theatre and hear the School’s plans for community use.

Many of the School’s facilities are available for public use and we are plan-

ning to share the new theatre space with both local community groups and

touring companies, in line with the aims and objectives we have as a regis-

tered charity.

Visitors were treated to a Chamber Choir performance of a medley of

songs from Les Misérables. Just over 120 seats have now been individually

supported by parents and former pupils and friends of the school, including

a patron of the Richard Whiteley Theatre, Dame Judi Dench, through dona-

tions of £25 per month over three years (£1000).

If you would like to make a gift to support the Theatre please visit

www.giggleswickschool.co.uk/seats

gigg:news may 2010

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