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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 all aspects of soil and groundwater remediation resulting from fuel or chemical losses.
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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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Dr Ri chard W Ho warth (P 5 3 -5 9 ) wrote
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
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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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Annette Fox Leukaemia Research Trust at Bradford Royal Infirmary.
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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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