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Hunmanby HallOld Girls’ Association
1932 - 2011
JAVELIN2011
The Old Hall was built as a House (3 storeys high) byone of the Osbaldeston’s.
A generation or so later another of the family whoinherited the “House” or Hall decided to enlarge thehouse by adding two wings, South and North.
The South, was of some elegance with 2 panelledrooms on the ground floor, the Oak Room and a largesitting room.
The North Wing contained the staff quarters and thekitchens.
ContentsEditorial 3Committee and Branch Secretaries 4 - 6Letters from our Vice-Presidents
Miss Rutherford 7Lady Appleyard 7Sylvia White 8
Chairman’s Report 8 - 9Chairman Designate 10Forthcoming Events
80th Celebrations 11Annual Reunion 11Branches:East Anglia 11Kent & Sussex 12London 12Nottingham and Midshires 12North Lincs/Sheffield 12North Yorkshire, East Coast and Hull 12North West 12
AGM Minutes 13 - 14Reunion and Reports
Annual Reunion 15Branch News 16 - 18
ObituaryHelen Lazenby 18Helen Thorpe 18Joan Patricia Carmichael 19 - 20Paul Sangster 21 - 23Connie Sheard 23Christine Whealdon 23Sheila Ames 24Jennifer Margaret MacPhail 24 - 26Gwyneth Loyd Bradshaw 27 - 28
Notices and Application Forms 29 - 36Where are We Now? 371960’s Form Reunion 38Lucy Heathcote 38Fred Pratt Green 39Cycling in Beijing 40 - 41Genista Dawson 42 - 43Another Publication - Sheila Rowbottom 44Happy Memories 44 - 45Grand Day Out 45Lady Hardy 46Letter from Patricia Howe to Margaret Jeffrey 47 - 48Congratulations to John & Mollie Wright 49Extract from a letter to Genista 49Esme Sonja Young 50Accounts 2009 - 10 51For the Record 52
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Editorial
It seems like no time at all since I was writing my lastEditorial, but yes another year has passed. It has beenbrightened though by lots of lovely letters and articles,thank you so much, hope you enjoy the read, keepthem coming.
In 2012, our 80th Anniversary year, I am preparing aCommemorative Edition of the Javelin which I hopewill be full of memories from all our school years.Therefore please send me any old photos, (with namesand dates if possible) School Prospectus, Speech DayProgrammes etc., so that I can fill the pages withwalks down memory lane. There will also be thenormal annual Javelin as well. For those of you whoare IT literate, you can send the information by e-mail,jpeg files would be best, [email protected]
This year has also seen the HHOGA Committeemembers having to make difficult decisions about thefuture of the association. I am therefore asking youalong with our Chairman and Chairman designate tothink about joining the Committee and take up office,otherwise we may see the demise of the Associationand the Javelin.
Hope 2011 is a happy year for you all.
Jane Wallace
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HUNMANBY HALL OGACOMMITTEE 2011 – 12
Vice Presidents: Miss Jean Rutherford, MA6 Glamis Court, South Shields,Tyne & Wear, NE34 8AN. � 0191 456 5476*
Lady Appleyard (Née Miss Jefferson)Vine Cottage, Old Vicarage Lane,King’s Somborne, Stockbridge, SO20 6PZ.
Mrs Sylvia White (Lane)19 Birchwood Grove, Acacia Road, Hampton,Middx, TW12 3DU. � 020 8979 4687*
Chairman: Hilary Mayman (nee Goodwin)Buckle House, 14 Church Walk, Wellesbourne,Warwickshire, CV35 9QT. � 01789 470287*Mobile 07775 515492 [email protected]
Past Chairman: Mrs Margaret Jeffery (née Clarke)Pasture Barn Cottage, Featherbed Lane, Pathlow,Stratford on Avon, CV37 0ER.� 01789 414187* fax 01789 293530
Secretary: Mrs Ruth Woodhouse (nee Wilkinson)83 Lynwood Crescent, Pontefract, West Yorkshire,WF8 3QX. � 01977 794 071* [email protected]
Treasurer: Miss Jo NeedlerHigh Bannerdown, Waithe Lane, Brigsley, Grimsby,North East Lincolnshire, DN37 0RJ. � 01472 823347*
Editor: Jane Wallace65 Orchard Road Darlington DL3 6HR.� 01325 252576* [email protected]
Membership Jane WallaceSecretary: 65 Orchard Road Darlington DL3 6HR.
� 01325 252576* [email protected]
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Ex Officio: Mrs Rachel Pallister (Née Mason)Howgills, Bolton-by-Bowland, Clitheroe, Lancs.� 01200 447 480*
Erica Stary (Née Smith)[email protected]
Elected Members: Yvonne Hallaways (Hallaways)9 Georgian Close, Maidenbower, Crawley, RH10 7RE.� 01293 886076*
Annabel Hemming (Rowbottom)Walk House Farm, Winterton, North Lincolnshire,DN15 9RE. � 01724 733090*, mobile 07971 972072
Kathy BurgoineThe Old Lime Kilns, Scarborough Road,Great Walsingham, Norfolk, NR22 6AB. � 01328 878555*
Liz Schofield (Fisher)Moorlands, Wold Road, Barrow-on-Humber, NorthLincolnshire, DN19 7DQ. � 01469 530165*
Rachel Webster, (Greensit)High Garth, Well, Bedale, North Yorkshire, DL8 2QQ.� 01677 470480*
BRANCH SECRETARIES
East Anglia: Mrs Caroline Donsworth (Née Bramley)The Rookery, Saxmundham Road FramlinghamSuffolk IP13 9PH. � 01728 621 682*[email protected]
Kent and Sussex: Mrs Liz Cullen (Née Dalton)The Old Slate House, Fletching Common, Newick,Sussex BN8 4QS. � 01825 722 785*[email protected]
Mrs Jill Christmas (Née Embling)April Cottage, 20 Manor Road, Rusthall, Tunbridge Wells,TN4 8UE. � 01892 684 039* Fax: 01892 529 614.
London and Mrs Sylvia White (as previously listed)South Midshires:
Midshires and Mrs Margaret Jeffery (Née Clarke) (as previously listed)Nottingham:
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North Midshires: Mrs Di Ablett (Née Grice)47 Park Drive, Grimsby, Lincs. DN32 0EG.� 01472 594825 [email protected]
North West: Mrs Elizabeth Winter (Née Bean)5 Woodstock Drive, Birkdale, Southport, PR8 3DG.� 01704 568 275* or [email protected]
North Yorkshire, Mrs Rosemary Bell (Née Greensit)East Coast and Hull: High Garth, Red Lane, Masham, Ripon,
N Yorks, HG4 4HH. � 01765 689484*[email protected]
South and West Volunteers requestedYorkshire:
*Please phone only in social hours – 0900 – 2000. Thank you.
The following branches hold annual or biannual meetings.
Branch area Your branch is that with a town or county nearest to youbut Old Girls are welcome at any branch meeting.
East Anglia Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk.
Kent and Sussex Hampshire, Kent, Sussex.
London Bedfordshire. Berkshire, Buckinghamshire,Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Hertfordshire, London,Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey.
North West Manchester, Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire, N Wales.
North Yorkshire Bedale, Beverley, Boroughbridge, Bridlington, Driffield,East Coast and Hull Filey, Goole, Harrogate, Hessle, Howden, Hull, Ilkley,
Knaresborough, Malton, Northallerton, Pickering,Richmond, Ripon, Scarborough, Selby, Tadcaster, Thirsk,Whitby, York.
Nottingham Herefordshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Rutland,and Midshires Shropshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands, Worcestershire.
North Lincs Barnetby, Barrow on Humber, Barnet on Humber, Brigg,and Sheffield Cleethorpes, Doncaster, Grimsby, Lincolnshire,
Rotherham, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Wootton.
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Letters from our Vice PresidentsJean RutherfordDear former staff and old girls,
It is not long now till the celebration of eighty years since the school’s foundationand we are all hoping for a really large attendance at the celebration lunch, detailsof which are set out in the Javelin. It seems no time at all since we were gathered inthe marquee on the south lawn for the sixtieth anniversary.
I was saddened to note that there was no volunteer to follow Hilary Mayman asChairman of HHOGA. The flame that was lit almost eighty years ago and the idealsthat have been cherished over the years are sorely needed in this twenty-firstcentury of ours, an inheritance worth passing on to our children and grandchildren.I ask you therefore, busy as you are, is there no one who will take up the challengeof leading the association and renewing the vision for the future
Jean Rutherford
Lady AppleyardDear Old Girls
Warmest greetings to all of you in this very cold winter! I don’t think I remember acolder one ever! I hope you have all managed to be warm and comfortable in spiteof the elements. Another year has gone by, and I know that your Committee aredoing their best to keep the Association lively and active. Well done and thank youto them. It’s very good to be able to keep in touch through meetings and theJavelin and we should all miss that contact if it wasn’t there. Special thanks to Janefor the Javelin.
Shortly after I had written my letter last year, Dr Sangster died and I’m sure thatmany of you will be keen to read about his funeral in this edition. He was a veryspecial person to all of us who were lucky enough to know him. I’m sure that we allhave particular memories of him and I feel confident that they all involve some funand laughter.
My year has been mixed since I wrote last. We’ve had some lovely times, includingour first ever cruise, which was a great success. We went with Swan Hellenic roundthe Black Sea and the Aegean, ending in Malta. We had wonderful weather andloved the whole experience, rather to our surprise! My involvement with theHampshire Historic Churches Trust has continued to give me pleasure and thefund-raising and other events have all gone well. I have also continued to beinvolved with the education programme at the Cathedral in Winchester and that,too, has been interesting and stimulating.
The down side of the year has been my husband’s health. Since August, he hasfound increasing difficulty in walking and has pain in the back. We have been to seean enormous number of specialists and I’m delighted to say that at last we seem tobe making some progress. I don’t think one appreciates good health until it isn’tthere. I hope I shall be able to report next year that the problem has been solved!
Meanwhile, I hope that I shall see some of you during the year and send my loveand best wishes to all of you.
Joan Appleyard
Sylvia White
Greetings to all OG’s!
I hope this finds you well, and able to keep warm this very cold weather.
Having arrived home after the London reunion, I really felt it had been such a jollyoccasion, no doubt because of numbers, 22 members being present, including theCommittee.
I met up with a few friends I’d not seen since the 1940’s, which was great. (We stillrecognised each other!)
Our gratitude goes to the Chairman and dedicated Committee for their sterlingwork so faithfully and willingly given.
May you all have a happy and healthy 2011.
With best wishes,
Sylvia White
Chairman’s ReportA very Happy New Year to everyone, and after such a long cold winter by the timeyou receive this copy of the Javelin I hope that signs of Spring will have cheered usup and lifted our spirits.
The theme of this last year really has been a “call to arms” for the HHOGA. At theAGM held at Charing Cross Hotel last October (thanks to Yvonne Hallaways fororganising) the question of the viability of the continuation of the Association wasraised. The general consensus at that meeting was that without a great many morevolunteers joining the Committee, the Association could slowly fall apart within thenext 5-6 years. Some supported the idea of the HHOGA going out with a bang at orafter the Quadrennial Lunch to be held in York in April 2012. It is an unfortunate factof life that such groups or organisations are difficult to keep going without amassive amount of support and we are fortunate to have a committee of dedicatedladies who are prepared to keep going, BUT without others willing to follow on it issad but true that we may be delaying the inevitable. At Charing Cross in October2010 a “stop-gap” agreement was agreed whereby Margaret Jeffery had kindlyoffered to serve one more year as Chairman, and Caroline Donsworth had indicatedthat she would take over after that. Following that meeting, we had a discussion inLondon in January where I agreed to add one more year on to my term andCaroline confirmed that she would be willing to take over at the end of 2012.However, we are struggling and will continue to do so without a higher level ofsupport from Old Girls prepared to take on the role of Chairman.
These decisions need to be ratified however, and will be on the agenda fordiscussion at the Spring meeting on 26th March, following which a vote will betaken at the AGM on 15th October at the Monkbar Hotel in York. Following a
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committee meeting, we will hold the AGM at 12.30, and then there will be lunch; Ihope that as many of you as possible will be able to attend. Please can you let meknow as soon as possible if you will be able to attend the lunch and/or the AGM, bycompleting the form and letting me know by e-mail, post or telephone.
My apologies for the serious tone of this Chairman’s letter – we must face thedifficulties which the Committee is facing in HH fashion and support theenthusiasm of those who are willing to carry the flame into the future, without thisthe flame runs the risk of being extinguished.
My grateful thanks go to the Branch Secretaries for organising such enjoyable daysduring 2010. I have been able to attend Marie Gibson’s house in Nottingham for alovely lunch provided by Marie and her daughter, a lovely day where I met more OldGirls who live close to me here in Warwickshire. A good turnout at RachelWebster’s in Bedale ensured a wonderful day where we enjoyed hers and David’shospitality with views over the Vale of York and where Rachel and Rosemary’smother played the piano with gusto and we all had a good sing song! Liz Schofieldlaid on a lovely sunny day at her home in Lincolnshire where a good number of usenjoyed her usual delicious hospitality.
On a personal note, your Treasurerand I had an unforgettable trip toSouth Africa late last year, everyday was an adventure and it tooka long time to come back down toearth – however returning to worksucceeded but we are alreadyplanning our next adventure forlater this year. Many of us arecelebrating “significant birthdays”this year with a reunion planned inHarrogate on 1st October –precious friendships which haveendured for so many years – all tobe celebrated!
I hope many of you will be able to attend the AGM in York and in particular willsupport Caroline who has put so much hard work into the organisation of the 80thCelebration at York Racecourse on 28th April. Caroline’s enthusiasm is muchappreciated and I hope everyone will support her wholeheartedly. My personalthanks go to Ruth and Jane for their steadfast support.
With my very best wishes to you all, please do contact me with your thoughts andideas and I look forward to a further year where I will do my utmost to see as manyof you as possible at the branch meetings.
Hilary Mayman (Goodwin)
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Chairman DesignateDear Old Girls,
It is with mixed thoughts I find myself Chairman Designate – delighted to beinvolved again and have the opportunity to visit friends all over the country and alsowith sadness for the reasons I will continue to explain.
At the A.G.M. last October the issue was raised how long H.H.O.G.A could survive– it is now 20 years since the school closed and as we know at some point it isinevitable that the Association will close too – especially when no one is comingforward to support the existing hard working and committed committee.
I appreciate your first reaction will be Of COURSE we don’t want the Association toend but we do need to be pro-active in ensuring we do not just dwindle and fizzleout!
Hilary has agreed to do one more term and I have agreed to do the next few yearsas Chairman as have our Secretary, Treasurer and Javelin Editor /MembershipSecretary - however after that time we have no one coming through – it seems along way off but as we all know time flies…….without a Chairman we cannot andwill not survive - to be on the committee is not too onerous – I promise! For a usualyear we meet for a Spring committee meeting at the current Chairman’s home andagain the Autumn for the A.G.M which is now as you know being held in eitherYorkshire or London (please see details further on in the Javelin for our LeedsA.G.M) Realistically we are looking for at least five people to come on to thecommittee or we will be looking at winding the Association up and having one lastfarewell Reunion. I cannot stress enough that without someone coming through thecommittee will be looking at closing the association. If you would like to talkthrough joining the committee please do not hesitate to contact me on 01728621682 or email me [email protected] – I would love to hear fromyou!
On a personal note – life in Framlingham continues to be busy – I am supportingMark more with the agricultural wearing parts business and also I have officially gotthe “chauffeur” title which I never believed I would be….. George is now 12, loveseverything from sports, sailing, drama and academic life and has one more year leftat Brandeston Hall before following Daddy to Framlingham College and Williamwho is 10 and just lives for sports….. !
I look forward to seeing many of you during the next year!
With fondest wishes,
Caroline
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Forthcoming Events
80th CelebrationsThe Chairman and Committee of the HHOGA
Invite you to the 80th Birthday Celebration Lunch
To be held on Saturday 28th April 2012
At York Racecourse
12.00pm for 12.30pm Bucks Fizz Reception
1.00pm Lunch
Ticket price to include Bucks Fizz Reception, three course lunch and coffeeand commemorative present.
See page 36 for booking form
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Annual ReunionSaturday 15th October , 2011, 12 noon
York
This will be held at the Best Western Monkbar Hotel,York, when lunch will beserved at 1 p.m, after the AGM.
Please apply before September 19th. Cost of the lunch is £23.00.
See page 29 for booking form
East Anglia
The Angel at Bury St Edmunds – Tuesday 3rd May 2011.
We would love to see you please do telephone me if you can join uson 01728 621682. – Caroline Donsworth
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Kent & Sussex
The branch meeting will be on Saturday 11th June at Liz Cullen’s house, anyonewishing to attend please contact either Liz Cullen or Jill Christmas.
London
If possible, I hope to book a suitable venue for a get-together in 2011.Check the HHOGA web page later in the year for details.
Nottingham & Midshires
Our meeting will be held on Tuesday 5th April 2011 at the home of Mary Hoarewhich overlooks the River Avon in Stratford. Please contact Margaret Jeffery for
further details
North Lincs/Sheffield
The next meeting of the North Lincs/Sheffield Branch will be on Saturday 9th Julyat 12 noon at the home of Maureen Mollett (nee Topping). The Old Vicarage,
Wooton, Ulceby, Lincs.
Invitations will be sent about a month before.
North Yorkshire, East Coast & Hull
No details are yet available for this meeting please check HHOGA web page later inthe year for details.
North West
The Branch Reunion meeting will be on on Saturday 21st May 2011 atJanet Bowker (nee Spensley's) home at 41 Wicks Crescent, Formby, MerseysideL37 1PD. Anyone wishing to come along is very welcome - please either contact
Liz Winter or Hilary Morphy [email protected]
STOP PRESS!Caroline would like to thank everyone for their emails of support following here-mail asking Old Girls to join the committee and take on the role of Chairman -please keep these positive responses coming! fingers crossed the future is lookingbrighter! [email protected]
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Minutes of The AGM of The Hunmanby Hall OldGirls AssociationHeld at The Charing Cross Hotel, London - On Saturday 2nd October 2010
Present: Sylvia White (Vice President), Hilary Mayman, (Chairman), MargaretJeffery, Rosemary Bell (Branch Secretary North Yorkshire, Hull, EastCoast), Jane Wallace (Editor and webpage co-ordinator), Jo Needler(Treasurer), Ruth Woodhouse (Secretary), Yvonne Hallaways, JanePayuta, Jenny Richards, Amanda Roden, Cynthia Everett-Allen, RuthHalken, Joan Martin, Karen Ratcliffe (and her daughter Giorgia), LizDavies, Christine Oliva, Judith Loadman, Judi Hardman, MargaretFaulkner, June Bellamy and Felicity Sainsbury.
Welcome - Flame Prayer
The Chairman, Hilary Mayman, opened the meeting at 3pm by welcoming all thosepresent,.and particularly those who had travelled some distance to attend. She alsothanked Yvonne Hallaways who had organised everything with the Charing CrossHotel whilst Caroline Donsworth has been unwell.
Apologies
Apologies were received from Lady Appleyard, Sue Henderson, Ann Carlisle, AdeleCrowe, Helen Wormwald, Jennifer Mitchell, Jean Havelock, Erica Stary, CarolineDonsworth, Liz Winter, Jill Christmas, Liz Scofield, Kathy Burgoine, Rachel Webster,Genista Dawson, Clare Robinson, Mary Gilston, Pat Granger, Gwithian Guy, RachelBond, Mollie Wright, Mary Cleator, Joan Carmicheal, Sue Daws, Vivian Foster, PamTiller and Josephine Taylor.
Minutes
After adding Liz Winter and Fiona Norton to the list of attendees, it was agreed thatthe minutes of the last meeting were a true record and they were signed by theChairman.
Matters arising
There were no matters arising.
Chairman’s Report
Hilary Mayman reported that she has attended 3 branch meetings this year –Nottingham and Mid Shires at Marie Gibson’s home, North Yorkshire, East Coastand Hull at Rachel Webster’s home and the North Lincolnshire & Sheffield at LizSchofield’s home. They were all extremely enjoyable events.
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Treasurer’s Report
Jo Needler had available copies of the income and expenditure account which wasadopted. If anyone wants to further inspect these accounts please contact JoNeedler.
Javelin Report
Jane Wallace reported that practically all the Javelins printed for 2010 had nowbeen sold.
Election of Committee
The committee were elected en bloc.
Any other business
Hilary Mayman welcomed all those present. Following the earlier CommitteeMeeting a suggestion had been discussed that attendance numbers weredwindling and committee volunteers were also lacking, and therefore a discussionwas held to the effect that the Quadrennial Lunch and the 80th anniversary ofHHOGA could well be the last official event for the Hunmanby Hall Old GirlsAssociation. If numbers continued to dwindle, the 80th celebration could be afitting end to the HHOG unless there was a resurgence of interest in keeping theAssociation going, and volunteer committee members coming forward. If anyone isinterested in joining the committee she should contact Hilary Mayman or RuthWoodhouse.
Margaret Jeffery presented Hilary Mayman with a bottle of wine and thanked her forall her hard work and commitment during the past year.
Hilary Mayman presented retiring committee member Karen Ratcliffe with a giftvoucher in recognition of the hard work she had done during her term on thecommittee.
Next Meeting - AGM
Will be on 1st October 2011 at 3 pm at the Queens Hotel in Leeds at 1.30 pm. Theprice is to be decided. Hilary to contact the hotel and arrange.
There being no other business the meeting closed and those present enjoyed theirtea.
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Annual ReunionCharing Cross Hotel – London
Well all 20 ‘odd’ of us from HHOGA arrived at CharingCross hotel for our afternoon tea on October 2nd .Grey damp and drizzle outside but lots of chatter andmeeting up with new ‘old’ girls for me . Great fun butsadly we were told it might be for not much longer asthe take up for these gatherings is getting less. Peopleare needed to go on the committee -so think about it! I saw Jane move amongst usstopping at my neighbour to plead for someone to write up the day for the Javelin.Having done it once I thought I was safe. My dear neighbour replied that she wouldnot do it justice so instead of being sensible I heard myself say - oh I’ll do it.
So here we are. The tea was enjoyable and thecompany interesting. I can whole heartedlyrecommend these get together. It is alwaysinteresting to hear how others coped with HHand their experiences. For me sitting next tosomeone who had a boyfriend who had beento my brothers old school and she alsoworked for a company my daughter had been
with-amazing! Also met Karen who had been to my grandsons school as part of herjob. So you never know what will turn up at these reunions.
The world is very small. Come on board !With thanks to all the committee fororganising it and all their hard work inkeeping the flame alive.
Those who attended:
Sylvia White nee Lane (Vice President), HilaryMayman,(Chairman),Margaret Jeffery neeClarke, Rosemary Bell nee Greensit (BranchSecretary North Yorkshire, Hull, East Coast), Jane Wallace (Editor and webpageco-ordinator), Jo Needler (Treasurer), Ruth Woodhouse nee Wilkinson (Secretary),Yvonne Hallaways, Jane Payuta, Jenny Richards nee Birchall, Amanda Roden neeEarnshaw, Cynthia Everett-Allen, Ruth Halken, Joan Martin, Karen Ratcliffe (and herdaughter Giorgia), Liz Davies nee Sharon Marr, Christine Oliva, Judith Loadman neeWilloughby, Judi Hardman, Margaret Faulkner, Corinne (I think that’s how its spelt)Bellamy nee Sweeting and Felicity Sainsbury (nee Lamley).
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Branch News
London Branch 2010
Thanks to our Chairman Hilary arranging the Committee Meeting at Charing CrossHotel, our London members were able to join them later, and I believe we allenjoyed it as the decibels were high and long!
78 invitations were sent out, and though we were sorry to miss the company of 14members who sent their apologies and best wishes, I appreciated their keeping intouch.
East Anglian Branch Meeting
A very small gathering in 2010 which was held at The Angel at Bury St Edmunds –we had a wonderful lunch with superb conversation flowing with lots of laughter –with this in mind we decided that the 2011 branch meeting would be held onTuesday 3rd May again at The Angel at Bury St Edmunds.
North West Branch
Unfortunately due to personal circumstances no branch meeting was held in 2010.
North Yorkshire, East Coast & Hull
Forty seven invitations were sent out Twenty four people apologised and nineteenattended which was fantastic.
We had a lovely reunion at mysister Rachel Webster’s homeon Saturday 7th August 2010.Much excitement as usualwhen OG s get together torenew friendships. We hadsome attending for the first timewho hope to come again whichis great. Our Chairman HilaryMayman (nee Goodwin)welcomed everyone and lit theLamp. We said the FlamePrayer and sang the Schoolhymn accompanied yet again
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by my Mum Mary Greensit (nee Abel) aged 88!! We had a buffet lunch and admiredthe fantastic views of the Vale of York from Rachel’s garden.
Present: Judi Loadman (nee Willoughby), Susan Brown (staff), Jane Wallace (JavelinEditor), Rosemary Bell (nee Greensit), Rachel Webster (nee Greensit), Mary Greensit(nee Abel), Hilary Mayman (nee Goodwin) Jo Needler, Gillian Gill (nee Almack) SheilaPatchett, Joan Bottomley (nee Baron) Dadie Oughtred (nee Baker) Helen Blakeley(nee Backhouse) Susan Boldry (nee Beer) Vivienne Pope (nee Edwards) LouiseTindall (nee Atkinson) Helen Atkinson (nee Burdass) Jean Ferens, Lucy Heathcote(nee Stark).
North East Lincs/Sheffield Branch
Branch Meeting on Saturday11th September at the home ofLiz Schofield.
Hilly lit the lamp, we said theFlame Prayer and thenlaunched into the SchoolHymn. It was all very moving.
Then we had a lovely lunch withlots of chatter. A wonderfulafternoon and many thanks tohost Liz.
Names to faces, Left to Right, back row:- Jo Needler, Marie Gibson, Ros Moss,Maxine Moss-Allison, Hilary Mayman, Di Ablett, Rachael Webster, Chris Ashton,Ruth Stubley.
Left to Right front row:- Lucy Heathcote, Liz Schofield, Eileen White, BarbaraPilkington.
Nottingham & Midshires
The last time this branch met was in 2007 but the third attempt to arrange ameeting proved lucky.
We met at Marie Gibson’s house in Nottingham. Chairman, Hilary, was welcomedand after lighting the Lamp the Flame Prayer was said. Nine Old Girls sat down to adelicious lunch.
As is inevitable at any Old Girls reunion school days are primarily discussed andthen the conversation broadens and very soon different links within the group were
being discovered. Two hadtaught together in Sheffield,one knew the neighbour ofanother and two were in thesame form but hadn’t met formany years so there were nosilences at all. The senior ladiespresent were shocked that inthe 1960’s village boys weremet in the woods and the
1960’s rebels were amazed that Harry kept the whole school in silence in theassembly hall until the person who had dropped a toffee paper in the woods ownedup – what a difference from today.
Hopefully we shall meet again in 2011.
Those present were: Chairman Hilary Mayman (Goodwin), Marie Gibson (Rickells),Mary Hoare (Lucas), Margaret Jeffery (Clarke), Biddy Harker(Blackburn), SheilaMiller Craig (Walker), Pat Martin(Simpson), and Anne Wragg (Vera Wright).
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Obituary
Helen Lazenby - nee RobinsonAttended Hunmanby circa 1960 – 1966
Died Peacefully on 22nd February 2010 aged 61
Dearest mother to Nonie, Ollie and Charlie, and grandmother to Serena and Harry.
I represented the HHOGA at the Thanksgiving Service for my second cousin HelenLazenby (nee Robinson) who died tragically of cancer in February. She was activelyinvolved in art and historic gardens.
Rosemary Bell (Greensit)
Helen Thorpe - nee Weatherall
I regret to inform you that my mother, Mrs Helen Thorpe (nee Weatherall) of 60Polhill Avenue Bedford, MK41 9DU died 25th July 2009.
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Joan Patricia Carmichael nee Blackburn11/5/1919 – 22/12/2010 Hunmanby Hall: 1931 – 1936
On January 22nd 2011, family and friends of Joan Carmichael gathered toremember and give thanks for a life well lived. Amongst the hymns was theFlamebearers’ Hymn, the anthem of Hunmanby Hall School for Girls. Joan herselfhad left instructions that this stirring song should be sung at her funeral. It markedthe culmination of a life-long association with the school which had inspired andinformed so much of the way Joan lived her life.
Throughout her life she was a generous, caring, thoughtful person. One of thetributes quoted at her memorial service stated simply that she was: “a veryremarkable woman, full of vim and vigour, and able to connect, in a way that fewcan, with the generations which followed.”
Joan was born in Leeds, first of three daughters to Norman (“Blackie”) and AnnieBlackburn. Her father had been a pilot in the Royal Naval Flying Service in WorldWar One after which he and his family moved to Brough to join his brothers atBlackburn Aircraft where Blackie was Managing Director and ran the flying school.
Joan was sent to Hunmanby Hall at the age of 12. She loved boarding school andHunmanby left a lasting impression on her. She made life-long friends and joinedthe Girl Guides, eventually becoming the youngest Guide Commissioner ever toserve in the East Riding. Her teachers instilled in her a love of words and books thatnever left her — she always chose to be an outfielder in cricket games so that shecould read her poetry books undisturbed! Determined to become a journalist oneday, she learnt shorthand and typing. She excelled in English — though not atmaths — but she never learned to swim properly since school swimming lessonswere held on Filey Beach! Her sisters, Bridget (Biddy) and Elizabeth also attendedHunmanby.
Flying with her father Blackie from a young age, Joan had looped-the-loop by theage of sixteen. Her father would often fly her to Norfolk to visit school friend FredaWeldon.
She left Hunmanby aged seventeen and joinedthe Hull Daily Mail three weeks later. During thatshort break, she travelled to Norfolk, this time,by train. On Doncaster station, she met a youngman called Tom Carmichael, an undergraduatetravelling back to Cambridge. For a couple ofyears Joan’s career and romance blossomed butevents in Europe were conspiring against themboth.
The day war was declared Joan had been due in London for an interview at a FleetStreet newspaper. It was postponed until the end of hostilities.
Tom was captured defending Dunkirk and spent the war in POW camps inGermany and Poland. Joan spent those five years ‘burning the candle at both ends’(to quote a favourite poem learned at Hunmanby) working full time, volunteeringpart time and socialising the rest of the time.
She left the Hull Daily Mail, fully expecting to return to journalism once the war wasover. She started work at the newly built factory in Sherburn-in-Elmet whereBlackburns were building Fairey Swordfish. Her job was to ensure that the suppliersdelivered on time. Thanks to Joan and her fellow “Progress Chasers”, production ofthe Swordfish was never halted for lack of components.
Joan was a Red Cross Volunteer and served in the Auxiliary Fire Service. She spentmany a night on fire-watch in Bridlington, coming off duty just in time to cycle hometo get changed and catch the train to work.
When her stint at Sherburn ended, she was posted to Bath to work at the Admiraltyand became an indispensible Girl Friday to Top Brass Commander John Adams.
Tom was liberated in the summer of 1945. He and Joan were married a few monthslater on 6th October. The couple moved to London but Joan’s determination toreturn to journalism was thwarted by the arrival of daughter, Anne ten months later.
The family moved to Totteridge, North London in 1947 where, with the addition ofthree boys, they would remain for the next forty years.
Despite the demands of a growing young family andaging parents in Yorkshire, she found time to immerseherself in a number of local community groups andassociations, the local church, PCC and charities.
With the family grown, Tom and Joan moved close totheir daughter’s family in Hatfield, Hertfordshire in 1987.They enjoyed a long and active retirement, maintainingtheir connection with Totteridge, restoring their Georgianhouse and becoming committed members of the parish.
Age and failing health eventually forced them to move to a smaller house next doorto their daughter in 2009 but they had barely settled in before Tom died.
Joan died exactly a year after Tom. Four days previously,she had enjoyed a family party at her son Andy’s wedding.Her two other sons were in the band and played “Born to beWild” as Joan danced with a group of her devotedgrandchildren. Joan is survived by her four children; Anne,Michael, Andrew and Richard, nine grandchildren and fourgreat-grandchildren.
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Paul Sangster 20th June 1927 – 5th February 2010Born a twin (Margaret), in Conway. If he’d have been a girl his father was to put outa pink flag, or blue for a boy. To his parents’ amazement there were 2 babies, oneof each sex, so his father hung out a union jack.
They moved from Conway to Aintree to Scarborough to Leedsand, when war broke out, his father moved to London and Paulwent to Kingswood School where he spent 7 happy years. Hisheadmaster, J.B.Sackett, had a tremendous influence over him.
After National Service, just after the war, he went to PembrokeCollege, Cambridge to read English. He married Mary in 1952 inMuswell Hill.
His first teaching post was at the Bec Grammar School, Tooting followed by 6 yearsas housemaster at Ashville college, Harrogate.
In 1957, Roo was born and, in 1959, he went into teacher training at WestminsterCollege, Oxford. After 6 years he became Vice Principal at Worcester City TrainingCollege and then Principal of Balls Park College, Hertford for 10 years. He left BallsPark when the government closed the teacher training colleges. He went, asheadmaster, to Kent College Canterbury but a heart attack, after 3 years, meant hehad to resign.
After a year convalescing he was invited by Miss Joan Jefferson to becomechaplain of Hunmanby Girls School in North Yorkshire.
He was an inspirational teacher, always anxious to join in student activities –drama, music, and fencing and was always keen for each student to reach theirpotential before leaving his care.
He retired to Broadstairs which he loved. He loved all moods of the sea and theTurneresque sunsets.
He threw himself into church life and, for 10 of the 18 years in Broadstairs, tookpart in a history walk every Thursday enacting living history. He rejoiced in takingthe part of John Wesley at the very spot where Wesley once preached. As acomplete contrast, he also revelled in playing a cockney, red-nosed, rat-catcherAlbert Sludge, complete with liquorice rat-tails round his waist.
The deaths of his 2 closest friends had a profound effect on his life. Hugh diedwhen they were at school together, aged 16. John, who was like a brother to himthrough the years, died prematurely. John’s family and ours have been intertwinedsince Paul and John met at the age of 11.
He enjoyed the fact that one of the examiners at his trial to be a local preacher wasEdwin Finch, the secretary of the Methodist Conference who failed him,considering him to have a heretical view. This was amended later on during thedays at Oxford though he continued to preach, in spite of the heresy.
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Paul left Broadstairs for Fakenham when hehad a serious throat operation and hishealth declined. He moved to come andlive near his beloved daughter and herfamily. He rejoiced in his grandchildren andtheir progress. He taught them unsuitablesongs such as ‘As soon as this pub closes– the revolution starts!’.
His love of animals and nature was lifelongand when Mary asked him if he could havepursued any other career what would ithave been; his reply was an instant: “Zoo
Keeper”. He always referred to his grandchildren (and, indeed, all children), asbears: “angelic looking but with sharp teeth”
His daily singing often used hymn tunes as a means to praise dogs. So: ‘Gloriousthings of thee are spoken, Zion city of our God’, became: ‘Great big dogs with furrywhiskers and a great long hairy tail…’
He regretted he could not do more for the Fakenham circuit when his healthdeteriorated but he was a loyal member of Oak Street until he was unable to cometo church.
Through 3 ½ years of chronic illness, no one ever heard him complain. Every daywas a blessing and joy, full of fun.
As the family will at the crematorium, he began every day with: ‘Come thou fount ofevery blessing, tune my heart to sing thy praise.’
He slipped out of life, at home, peacefully at the end, surrounded by his family.
Summary
1. The difficulty of being the son of a prominent person: Paul felt a call to theministry when he was 25 but, on deep reflection, he felt a career in teachingwas really for him.
2. He carried his scholarship lightly and treated his dustman friends, M.Ps anddignitaries with the same interest and care.
3. He was very humble. It was difficult to get him to buy anything for himselfalthough he was generous to everybody else.
4. He had what would be called a wicked sense of humour. He could findsomething humorous is any situation, however serious.
5. No one who met him ever forgot him.
6. He was a dinosaur when it came to modern technology – he did, however,master turning on the TV on and off but never the radio!
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7. Dad was referred to as Gramps.
8. His four grandchildren: Olivia (18), Benedict (17), Tobias (15), Beatrice (13).
9. Hobbies: Theatre and drama, zoos, photography, Pensthorpe Wildfowl Park –especially Maribou Storks and ducks, music – especially Mozart and Bach,growing oriental poppies.
10. He loved traditional hymns and a good sermon.
Academic DetailsD. Phil – Oxford, Church HistoryMA – Cambridge, EnglishB. Litt – Oxford, Church HistoryLRAM – Speech and Drama
Published WorksSpeech in the Pulpit – 1957Dr Sangster, biography of his father – 1962Pity my simplicity, John Wesley and Education – 1963A History of Balls Park – 1972Hamlet’s First Case, detective novel – 1974The Day of Dog, detective novel – 1977A History of the Free Church – 1983
Connie SheardConnie Sheard died on 20th January, 2011 after several years decline. Connie andher husband came to Hunmanby in 1954 when Fred was appointed as Bursar. Hermain subject was German but she also taught other subjects and was frequently aform mistress. They moved to Grantham in 1965 and later retired to Buxton.Recently Connie was living in Didsbury next to her elder daughter, Judith. Herchildren, Judith, Patrick and Gillian are “still going strong”, according to Patrick.
Christine Whealdon (nee Stramson)Christine passed away in November 2010, she has a sister who also attendedHunmanby, Bina, who lives in Woodhall Spa, Lincs.
Sheila Ames (nee Taylor)I am very sad to report that Sheila passed awaypeacefully on 28th November 2010. Sheila and I metat Hunmanby in September 1939 and have been firmfriends ever since. We have managed to meet up atleast once a year apart from the time she spent in theWest Indies and I was in Hong Kong. Sheila and I,particularly Sheila, were also good friends all theseyears with Pat Wilson (nee Miller), who lived inBassenthwaite village as a girl. After Sheila returnedfrom the West Indies she lived in London and havebeen very happily married to Roger for many years,living in Beaconsfield. I miss her very much.
Unfortunately Pat did not manage to get to Sheila’s funeral in Amersham (hadbronchitis) but I was so pleased to meet Gudrun Bramham the grand daughter ofSheila’s sister Anne.
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Jennifer Margaret MacPhail19th May 1948 – 29th January 2011
I am overwhelmed by the amount of friends that arehere today, to say their final goodbye to Jennie. Shewould have been delighted and embarrassed in equalmeasure. It is a true testimony to the esteem in whichshe is held by those who knew her.
As there are so many here, it will be like a scrum if I tryto speak to everyone individually here, (and I knowwhat scrums can be like) so please come to KingsWeston House after the service where I can say helloto you there.
Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to write cards and letters. Therehave been scores of them and they are a great comfort. These are some of thedescriptions of Jennie which frequently crop up in them. Kind, caring, generous,pretty, full of fun, lovely smile and giggle, intelligent, considerate, positive, lovingperson who bore her horrible disease without complaint, with dignity and above all,great courage. It is so typical of her to have written her anguish in a private diary,rather than burden us with it. The 2 pieces on the order of service are taken fromthat diary.
Jennie went to local schools in Lincoln and then boarded at Humanby Hall inYorkshire. She always kept in touch with good friends and there are some here
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today who were with her 50 years ago. She had an elephantine memory for faces,dates, especially birthdays. Sometimes the precise age of the recipient went adrift,especially Rob and Rowena’s tribe, but she never claimed to be perfect!
Jennie and I met in September 1966, when I was starting as a surveyor and Jenniewas at Art College. We started “going out” as it used to be called a month later. Thefollowing summer, we went on our first holiday together, along with my sisterAmanda and Jennie’s brother John, as chaperones! Sugar Puffs spring to mind, asJohn ate them by the box full.
In 1967, Jennie went to Birmingham to study art, and I to London. I used to hitch-hike at least 2 weekends per month to see her.
On qualifying in the summer of 1970, Jennie won the Sanderson scholarship andwas paid to go out to Thailand to study silk and tie dying. This was during the timeof the Viet Nam war and Thailand was full of American soldiers. Upon her return, webecame engaged and 3 months later, 27th March 1971, we were married in Lincoln.
Shambolic honeymoon in Cornwall, our hotel reservation made over the phone,during the postal strike, was never recorded and the hotel was shut for renovation!In that summer, Aunt Mora invited us to stay with her in Nice but after just 2 days,her wonderful companion Richard died, leaving us trying to assist with the funeralarrangements, in French.
We moved to Bristol in late 72, with Claire born in 75 and James in 78. We movedinto Eastfield Road in 79 and Jennie and I started our business partnership in 81.This we ran for nearly 25 years, from home, together. Exceptional teamwork,especially from her, running the house, the children and me. She remembered mostof the things that I forgot, I affectionately called her my animated filofax.
She was a great cook and hostess, always lots of food on the table, in comfortable,fun and stress free surroundings. Also a super gardener, seamstress, organiser –jobs that others find tedious, she turned into hobbies.
Abiding memories of family summer holidays, in Aunty Biff’s cottage inNorthumberland, with Jan and Dave in Cornwall, Aunt Mora in France.
Her Mother, Grannie D moved down to Westbury in 84 and we all had good yearstogether until about 1990 when Mrs D began to get Alzheimers. Jennie was brilliantat looking after her needs, firstly at her own house, then later when she moved inwith us and lastly at her nursing home. Similarly excellent with old Uncle Ivor at hishome.
She joined the Mad Hatters Charity team of women in the mid 80s, who raisedhundreds of thousands of pounds on their annul golf day, for children who hadcancer and leukaemia. She served with them for nearly 20 years, being Chairmanfor one of them when her turn came. Many people here today were on that samecommittee.
In 96, with both children at University, Jennie took a job as a receptionist at a localDoctors surgery. She was there for about 3 years and again accumulated reallygood friends, many of whom are here today.
Several years ago, she decided that she wanted to get fitter and so went to thelocal fitness centre to do aqua aerobics. More friends here from those classes.
Italy. The major project of our life. Those who have been to our home, know justhow much Jennie put into the planning, execution and running of Ferchia. It will behard for all of us returning there, not to constantly think of her, gardening, cookingmeals, reading books on the sunbeds with Frank the cat on her lap, swimming inthe pool – even in freezing water temperatures!
Then further joy and pride in her life, the grandchildren, Matilda, Edward, Eliza andAnnabelle. She felt that the family was complete and thanks to Anne and Des, weall had a lovely 2 weeks together in Cornwall, this last August/September.
Jennie did have a tendency to be a bit chatty, you may have noticed, but it wasnever in a derogatory way, she just loved to talk, to be involved, to be interested.She did have a habit of chipping in when I was on the phone, making me totallylose by train of thought. According to many male friends, she was not alone in thistrait!! An enormous thank you to our very close family and wonderful friends whocame to see her in those declining weeks after Christmas. I know that she lovedseeing you.
A big thank you to Dr Bahl and his team plus all the staff and doctors at St PetersHospice. With their wonderful care, her last days were comfortable.
She was my life, my best friend, my partner, mycompanion, my everything and now she is gone.
There are some here today who have faced this voidbefore them and I admire them for their fortitude. Idon’t yet know how to do this but with their help andyour love, life without her will be bearable.
I am sure that we all have our own stories andfavourite moments concerning Jennie. May they staywith you, along with that little place in your heart thatis reserved for special people. My dear Jennie wasvery special.
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Gwyneth Loyd Bradshaw - nee Loyd Jones -Mitford 1933 – 39
Gwyneth died on 27th February 2010, shewas the only daughter of Nellie & EdwardLoyd Jones. Her father was in the MerchantNavy and in 1928 was appointed to theharbour office in Hong Kong where Gwynethwent to school, sometimes by rickshaw. In1931 while Edward was working in Glasgowit was decided that Gwyneth would go toHunmanby for her schooling. Gwyneth wentto Hunmanby where she wrote “it is myhome”, her parents were back in Hong Kongand she spent most of her holidays withelderly Aunts. In her first year, with fivefriends, she formed “The Secret Six of theSeven Arms”, they became a close knitgroup with their friendship lasting long pastschool days. She enjoyed sports, picking upher colours at cricket ( then name of HerbertSutcliffe became part of the family folklore).
After her school years Gwyneth returned to Hong Kong where studied voiceproduction and helped in Chinese schools with the teaching of English. She wasalso, for a short time a companion to the Soong sisters, members of a famousChinese family who had fled to the colony from mainland China. The politicalclimate in the Western Pacific changed and Gwyneth and her mother went toAustralia, when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong her father was captured and wasimprisoned for 4 years. While in Australia she gained a Speech Therapy Diplomaand an Academy Education Diploma, taught at Fintona and Methodist LadiesAcademy, and even spent three months as a children's nurse on an isolatedoutback farm.
Gwyneth and her mother left Australia for the UK sailing through the Panama Canaland spending VE Day on board arriving in Liverpool. In 1946 her father wasrepatriated and Gwyneth and her mother returned to Hong Kong. In OctoberGwyneth and a friend went to a party at the Officers Mess where she met a youngmeteorological officer FLT.Lt. Reg Bradshaw, they found that they both hadWesleyen Methodist background and he was soon invited to tea.
Romanced blossomed, they were engaged in March, married in June and in Augustwere on a troopship back to the UK. A six and half week voyage from the Far Eastmight sound idyllic for a newly married couple, but not so for Gwyneth and Reg,she was in a cabin with five other women and Reg three decks below.
So it was home to a new life, Reg doing a degree in Geology at University CollegeLondon and Gwyneth working at special clinics in Maidstone, Folkstone and
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Croydon, all work and not much play, however we did manage to play Squash at aclub in Dolphin Square.
In July 1950 Rhiannon Elizabeth was born, Reg got his degree and was appointedto the staff of his own college. They found a house in Caterham, Surrey whereAlison Katherine was born in 1952 and Martin James Loyd in 1955; with three smallchildren Gwyneth had no time for clinics, especially with a husband often awaylooking at rocks.
In 1958 Reg joined the Geology Dept at Bristol, they had a house built in a leafystreet and stayed there until 1994. The children are all grown up and married andproduced eight grandchildren, five boys and three girls, which has produced onegreat grandchild.
Gwyneth now had time to resume her Special Therapy a number of clinics in theBristol area. She enjoyed calligrapher and woodworker, also taking up machineknitting providing the family with distinctive knitwear. She always had a project onthe go and her workroom even now has notebooks full of drawings of gardens andconstructions, too many for them to be all completed.
Her love embraced other people too; welcoming newcomers or visitors to theMethodist church in Bristol, entertaining university students and visitors fromoverseas.
A special delight was BT(Bryn Tirion) a derelict cottage in N. Wales which she andson Martin, and several other builders, renovated and turned into a much loved andused holiday home for family and friends over a period of 25 years.
Through all her long and happy life she was sustained by a deeply held christianfaith which enriched her life and that of others who knew, especially her family.
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HHOGA Annual Reunion
Chairman and Committee Members warmly invite you to theAnnual Reunion Lunch at the Monkbar Hotel, York
On Saturday 15th October at, 12.30 p.m for 1 p.m.
Name
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No. of Tickets & names
Tickets £23.50. Cheques payable to HHOGA. Sorry no refunds.
To: Hilary Mayman (see page 4 for address)
DEADLINE FOR TICKETS: 16 September 2011
JAVELIN 2012Subscription Invoice
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Please send cheques for £8.00 payable to HHOGA to:
Jo Needler Hon TreasurerHigh Bannerdown, Waithe Lane, Brigsley, Grimsby,North East Lincolnshire, DN37 0RJ
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Address Changes for yourself and yourHHOGA friends
Please complete this form and return itto the membership secretary:
Jane Wallace65 Orchard RoadDarlingtonCo DurhamDl3 6HR
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Javelin News articles and copyDEADLINE DECEMBER 20th 2012
From
Please also give details of years at school and manor.
Please if possible send all your copy in electronic format, lettingus know what software you are using.
All digitised material to be sent, preferably by email, to [email protected] or to Jane Wallace 65 Orchard RoadDarlington DL3 6HR ideally using a cdrom rather than a floppydisk.
Photos: please do not sent photocopies – we cannot print themas the reproduction is too poor a quality. As we cannot guaranteereturning photos (and have to struggle getting them convertedinto digital format) please, as we have had enormous difficulty inscanning, etc., send them as jpeg files (*.jpg) on a CD or floppydisk to Margaret (see below) or email as above. And include thenames of the people pictured.
If it helps, why not take your contribution to a branch meeting orthe AGM?
All non-digital material to be sent to Jane Wallace (as above). Ifyou do not have access to a computer, please ensure that yourwriting is legible and ideally the copy is typed.
Thank you so much, we are all looking forward to your news.
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I am willing to stand for office on theCommittee of the Hunmanby Hall Old Girls
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Your personal information will be held and used in accordancewith the Data Protection Act 1998. The Association will notdisclose such information to any unauthorised person or bodybut where appropriate will use such information in carrying out itsvarious functions and services.
If you have any objection to the Association holding your dataplease sign and send this slip to the Secretary.
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The Chairman and Committee of the HHOGA
Invite you to the 80th Birthday Celebration Lunch
To be held on
Saturday 28th April 2012
At York Racecourse
12.00pm for 12.30pm Bucks Fizz Reception
1.00pm Lunch
Ticket price of £32. 50 to include Bucks FizzReception, three course lunch and coffee and
commemorative present.
Please make cheques made payable to HHOGA
Please complete and return the application form.
We will endeavour to organize the table plans with the date of youtaking your o’levels.
If you require a full table of 10 please send one booking form only.
Tickets will for 2012 be on a first come basis and the ticketdeadline will be 28th March 2012.
Sorry there will be no refunds!
For further information please contact Caroline Donsworth on01728 621682 or email [email protected]
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Hunmanby Hall Old Girls Association80th Anniversary Lunch
To be held at York Racecourse on Saturday 28th April 2012
Application Form
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No of Tickets and Names please: Cost £32.50
Vegetarian Yes/No
Cheques made payable to HHOGA.
Please send to Caroline Donsworth, The Rookery, SaxmundhamRoad, Framlingham, IP13 9PH, Telephone: 01728 621682
Sorry no refunds.
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Where are We Now?
Jean Havelock
I still live in Gerrards Cross and have retired from teaching and mostly from pianoteaching. I have two sons, one married with children aged three and seven months,the other single. My husband has retired and we take full advantage of this to gotravelling.
Sue Henderson (Lewin)
I am still living in Harpenden and am lucky enough to have two daughters and agranddaughter in the village and a son who lives in London so can come homequite often. My husband Ian has retired and we have a happy time here, althoughwith my old mother in the village to keep an eye on as well as granny duties there isless leisure time than one might imagine! We still keep dogs and will be getting anew puppy at the end of the month when we get back from holiday, and we grow alot of vegetables in the garden. I keep in touch with Annie Farnsworth (Hopper) andshe is godmother to my elder daughter, but apart from that Hunmanby seems avery long way away.
Nicky Biddle
I live in Chobham, nr Guildford. 4 children, 2 dogs, 2 horses & one cat. We have avery large garden which every year we open as part of the National Garden Scheme& it would be lovely to see anyone from HH on our opening day/s. I don’t know thedate for 2011 yet (it will be in May sometime) but it will be in the Yellow Book (bibleof garden visitors).
I run the local branch of Save The Children - is anybody else involved with SCF Iwonder. I play golf, tennis & am v keen theatre goer so if anyone wanted a trip totheatre in London, would love to join them.
This doesn’t sound too exciting I know but it is good to find out what people are upto & where they live.
Wendy Hamley (nee Bryson)
Wendy is unable to attend any branch or annual meetings to keep in touch withyour school friends. She was at school during the war and would like to hear fromanyone who knew her then, or any other girls who would like to keep in touch.
Wendy Hamley, 91 Lidyard Gardens, Southsea, Hampshire P4 9LB.
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1960’s Form ReunionWere you at Hunmanby between the years 1960 to 1968? More specifically are youadmitting to having just turned 60 in 2010 or will be 60 in 2011. Well we have goodnews for you.
Plans for a class reunion have been made for our 60th Year Anniversary.
Friday, September 30th and Saturday, October 1st 2011 in Harrogate, Yorks.
If you know of any class mates who have not yet been contacted please do so. Weare still trying to trace these old girls with some of their last known locationsbelow:-
Lynn Boothby (Buxton), Gaynor Thompson (Nassau/Bahamas), Sari Ross-Endfieldnow Higgitt (London), Sally Field (Robin Hood’s Bay), Pauline Hattersley (Leedsarea), Sue Honor now Nichol (Driffield), Sarah Jennings (Filey), Carol Kirby nowMay? (London), Sue Knowles now Armitage (Malton), Hilary Parker now Smith(York), Angie Parkinson (Leeds), Cathie Reiss (Deerfield, Illinois), Minoo Shojani(London), Sheila Thomas now Parsons (Birmingham area?), Freida Douglas-Huntnow Walker (Kent).
Even if you were not in our year but may have some information on any of thesepeople please let me know.
Lucy Heathcote (nee Stark)[email protected]
Telephone 01740 629039 or 44 WestEnd, Sedgefield, Co Durham TS212BT.
Please don’t let another significantanniversary pass by withoutcelebration.
To help your memory, you mayrecognise some of our year on thisphoto below taken in The Quad in thesummer of 1967 - our ‘O’ level year.
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Cycling in BeijingWell, we’re back safe andsound. The cycle ride inBeijing province wasinteresting, reasonably taxingand bitterly cold – at leastmuch colder than expected –9-12 Celsius instead of about20. So we were all wellwrapped up, and the cyclinghelped to keep us warm. Wealso had rain, thankfully notall the time as the cycles hadno mudguards so the rearwheel splashes mud all theway up your back when it’swet.
It was harvest time, and the sides of the roads (i.e. The cycle lanes) were piled highwith maize which were being husked and then stripped. It looked a backbreakingtask and the workers were all very happy to stop and wave and those with childrenheld them up to be photoed.
About 90 of us went and we cycled on average about 50-60 miles a day withbreaks at 20km or so to top up the water and food intake. How I looked forwards tothem – the cold made the going very touch. Due to the time of year, we were up atdawn as we had to be in before nightfall (no lights).
We had a longer lunchbreakon two days: first by a hillwith a Buddha atop (you gotup to him via a somewhatprecarious cable car) andsecond at the Great Wallwhich is staggering. We weretold it was built in stages andthat the objective was tokeep the horses, rather thanthe Mongol hordesthemselves, out. We saw lotsof Chinese tourists there too.
Afterwards we treatedourselves to a trip round the
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Forbidden City and theHutongs (where we weregiven a delicious lunch in aprivate home) and to a silkfactory for retail therapy. Andthen it was time to comehome.
All in all we two raised withyour help about £6,600 andthe group over £250k
The website for promises iswww.justgiving.com/ericas bythe way.
Thank you very much (or in Mandarin – yes I did learn some for the trip –谢谢) foryour support, it is really appreciated and I know the money goes to a very goodcause and is very carefully spent. Current research includes why some people havepolycystic ovaries which make it difficult for them to conceive, and the problemsaffecting some pregnancies with identical twins resulting in one twin getting toomuch blood and nutrients (with resultant heart failure) and the other being starved(and dying).
Pics are of one of theOlympic signs, a gang at thehill Buddha temple,communal exercise, cornhusking, mahjongg, Chinesetourists (Gt Wall), we’vefinished!
Erica and Philippa
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Genista DawsonGenista celebrated her 90th birthday on 18th April 2010getting 21 cards from her friends and having a tea partyat her neighbour’s house. She has also put down somerecollections of her time of at Hunmanby.
It was intended that I would go to a girls school inBristol where my grand parents Everest lived. Mymother was relating this proposal to her friend, who wasHeadmistress at Huddersfield High School for girls. Thisdear friend, Annie Hill by name, was shocked that I wasto be sent so far away from Yorkshire. She new of a newboarding school being opened in East Yorkshire, in avillage called Hunmanby.
Mother went to visit the school, we did not have a car in those days, she went bytrain to Filey and then Hunmanby, the Headmistress at that time was FrancesHargreaves B.A. Mother came home from that visit and said “You are not nowgoing to school in Bristol but to a new school in Yorkshire in a village calledHunmanby which is very near the sea”. It was a great joy to me was to be sentthere.
Hunmanby was opened in 1928 and I was taken as a new girl in 1931. Hunmanbywas a sister school to the well known boys Methodist School called WoodhouseGrove in Bradford. On arrival a member of staff allocatrd us to one of the Manors(houses) named after historical people who had lived there, Gant, Cecil, Constableand Mitford. There was 3 large residential wings, North South and West around alarge grass area known as the Quadrangle. The wings had rooms looking over thesea on the East side .
Miss Hargreaves, the Headmistress, came from Kent and was a very petite ladywho was full of energy, enthusiasm and expectations for the school and it’s pupils.She had a BA in History and learnt a great deal of the ancestry of The Old Hall. TheObaldestons, a Lancashire family, built The Hall, a three story square block, withlarge high windows so you could look out to the sea, in 1622. The situation of theschool was in really beautiful parkland with Beech trees and flocks of sheep
enjoying their life there. There were 3 entrances leading to thevillage:• The Ruined Gate• The West Gate• The Green Gate
The very old cottages were occupied by the school staff, laterothers were built in the Garden Area. One of the highlights of
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the Winter term was Bonfire night, there was a large bonfire built in the West Drive,we all had sparklers to hold while we watched the fireworks and afterwards we hadhot drinks and biscuits in the gymnasium before we went to bed.
Music was a big part of my time at school, the choirs sang on the school premisesand at the Hunmanby Methodist Church which we all attended every Sundaymorning in the village.
My life at Hunmanby was both interesting, worthwhile and extremely varied. Wewere taught:• English• French• Latin• Biology• Botany• Geography• Domestic Science• Dancing (Greek, country and ballroom) (teams of country dancers went to the
Village show held in the fields opposite the West Gateway in July).
Extra subjects could be purchased by parents were:• Music - Violin• Riding - pupils were taken by bus to the David Burr Riding School in Filey,
sometimes we rode on Filey Beach.• Cricket - gentlemen from nearby would come and play with us.
Revered Methodist ministers were invited to preach, both at morning prayers in theAssembly Hall and at the Chapel, sometimes we had the President of the MethodistConference to preach. My delight in being included in all these activities over my 90years has given me much happiness and making friends as the years speed by. TheOld Girls Association is also a great joy to me, I have been to the meetings inLeeds, York, London, Lincoln, Sheffield and North Yorkshire over the years, my yearas Chairman was 1960 - 61.
In my 90th year I am recollecting on the high points in my life:• Having such loving and helpful and kind parents• Attending Hunmanby Hall• The Swing in our Garden• Holidays in Wales every year• Learning to play tennis• Discovering Scotland - such beauty• Meeting my friend and gardening for him Andrew Riley• Being around to celebrate my 90th Birthday.
Genista Dawson
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Another PublicationSheila Rowbottom, has published another book -Dreamers of a New Day: Women who invented the20th century - it’s was launched on 6th May - price17.99. If it’s half as good as previous books, weshall all certainly enjoy it hugely.
Sheila Rowbotham’s adventurous dreamers hadmarvellous names: Voltairine de Cleyre, Elsie ClewsParsons, Storm Jameson, Maggie Lena Walker, andClementina Black. More familiar to most readersand writers of feminist histories are Frances E.
Willard, Jane Addams, Mary Church Terrell, Octavia Hill and Henrietta Barnett.Rowbotham’s contribution is to demonstrate how both prominent and obscurewomen in the United States and Britain created new ways of being women.Between the 1880s and the 1920s, they challenged prevailing expectations aboutsexuality, living arrangements, paid work and motherhood.
Happy MemoriesAt the time of writing this I am 96 years old but I still have many happy memories ofmy school days at Hunmanby. I was a pupil there from the very beginning and I canremember the North wing being built. There weren’t enough cubicles so a group ofus had to sleep in the village and we were taken there each night by one of thestaff.
At first I was quite a naughty pupil but soon settled down and later on became asteward in Mitford Manor. I was in charge of a dormitory full of young pupils duringthe earthquake that struck the North East coast.
I developed a love of music at Hunmanby and was selected to sing solo and playthe piano on many school occasions. My love of music has been passed down tomy daughter and she has a led a full musical life with her husband since they bothgraduated in 1964 at the Royal Manchester College of Music. This love of musichas been passed down through their children (my grandchildren) and on to theireldest grandson aged 10 (my great grandson). Altogether I have 3 children, 8grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren!
Sadly I am now registered as partially sighted and only have very little sight now injust one eye. Unfortunately, I fell in my bungalow in late October and spent my 96thbirthday in hospital. This was followed by 6 weeks rehabilitation and I was homejust in time for Christmas. I now walk with a frame at home and cannot get out andabout on my own. My daughter only lives a short distance away and helps me withtransport to all my various medical appointments and reads all my post etc. for me.
Although it was so long ago my memories of the years I spent at Hunmanby Hall
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are still very vivid and I realise how very fortunate I was to have been a pupil there.
Marjorie H Smith (Nee King)
Grand Day OutOn Tuesday 20th July, I attended a Buckingham PalaceGarden Party, accompanied by my friend, ChristineStones. Here we are in our posh frocks and hatswaiting to join the queue for entry.
One could say that we spent the whole afternoonqueueing and standing around but that would be tototally down-play the whole time. From the moment ofasking the taxi driver to take us to “BuckinghamPalace” to the final strains of the band, it was anunforgettable experience. After lining up onConstitution Hill and commenting on all the different
dresses and hats, we walked through the central court, up the red carpet, throughthe Palace and out onto the balcony and the lawn.
It was a very hot afternoon and started muggy so we were pleased that we couldget water and lemon squash. Just time to quaff a drink when we noticed thatpeople had started lining up for tea – everything was two-bite sized, sandwiches,smoked salmon blinis, scones, raspberry and strawberry tarts, cakes and chocolatesquares to die for. All presented for a selection to be placed on a china tray thatalso had room for tea, iced coffee or apple juice.
Then it was time to line-up for the Royal party – we were in the line to be used bythe Duke of Edinburgh, not that we were selected for presentation, but we wereclose enough to see him chatting and laughing with those who had been. Then wewatched the Queen going into her special tea-tent, with Prince Charles, Camillaand Princess Anne.
After that a stroll around the grounds, one large herbaceous border, a rather largerose garden, lots of trees and a lake, only to discover we had missed the ice-creams – oh, well you can’t have everything. We found some seats and listened tothe bands. The Queen left but there was no pressure for us to go, so we did somemore people-watching before sauntering off. Everyone was very pleasant, even thepoliceman asked if we had enjoyed ourselves – well what do you think?
Why me, everyone asks – well, partly due to Hunmanby! My name was put forwardby the Board of Management for Methodist Schools. I have just completed 6 yearsas Chairman of Governors at Farringtons, Chislehurst and have served for a total of30 years as a Governor, firstly at Hunmanby and then at Farringtons.
Margaret Faulkner, Gant, 1957 – 64
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Letter from Patricia Howe to our past Chairman Margaret Jeffrey.
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Congratulations to John & Mollie Wright
Extract from a letter to Genista“What a wonderful surprise to receive your delightful care and the list of names atthe Quinquennial lunch. Reading through the names I was able to mark at least 6who’s name rang a bell! I do so appreciate your stirling effort in keeping in touchwith “old girls” of whom I am very much one, having left Hunmanby in 1948. Iimagine by the table numbers all the really “old girls” were on lower numberedtables.
We lived in Nidderdale when I went to school and knew the Lister family well – theothers I remember their names rather than them and some of the teachers too.Fancy Joyce Gilmore (was she held girl?) marrying a Petch – my maiden name anda Mitford too! – what memories you have stirred.
We have now ‘retired’ in France and keep in touch with Summerbridge and friendswe left there. I have not been to U.K. for over 3 years and still hope to do so soon,but my husband John is now nearly 83 and I am not far behind so we see andreceive friends less often. I still see Rachel Garnett (Quarmby) from time to time, wewere at Armathwaite Hall together.
Jill Coveney (Petch)
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Hunmanby Hall Old Girls’ AssociationIncome and expenditure account for the year ended 31st March 2010
2010 2009Income £ £
Sales of Javelin – current year 599 592Sales of Javelin – previous year 52 376Sales of Javelin – 2011 72Bank interest 1 47Donations Nil 43AGM 1570 430April Lunch 2009/Raffle Nil 3524Overpayment of Expenses 180 Nil
2474 5012Expenditure
Printing costs of Javelin 383 383AGM 1365 360H.H.O.G. Web Site Nil 64Officers’ expenses, post, stat. etc 280 184Flowers/Retirement Present 107 195Committee meetings/Lunch 53 121Chairman’s Charity donation 200 NilYork Lunch 2008 Nil 1050Auditor’s fee 30 60Repayment Javelin 6
2424 2417
Surplus (deficit) for the year 50 2595
Balance sheet as at 31st March 2010
Accumulated fund at beginning of the year 6543 4019Surplus (deficit) for the year 50 2595Accumulated fund at end of the year 6593 6614Represented by:
Cash at Bank 6593 6543
Accrued expenses Nil 71
Net current assets 6593 6614
Trust Fund£
Balance at 31 March 2010 701
I have prepared the above accounts for the year ended 31 March 2010 and confirmthat they are in accordance with the information and explanations supplied to me.
Hon. Auditor: Date: 24th September
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FOR THE RECORDThe Chairmen of the Associationsince its foundation are:
Until 1957 Miss F A Hargreaves*
1957-59 Joan Marshall*
1959-60 Margaret Beauchamp*
1960-61 Genista Dawson(Everest)
1961-62 Peggy Siggs(Hemmant)*
1962-63 Molly Moore (Hibbard)*
1963-64 Peggie Burton*
1964-65 Kathleen Jones(Towlson)*
1965-66 Dorothy Hare (Webster)
1966-67 Joyce Chadeyron(Barker)
1967-68 Audrey McLeavy(Henderson)*
1968-69 Joan Hollows (Smith)
1969-70 Margaret Beaumont(Scaife)
1970-71 Betty Major (Townend)
1971-72 Joyce Johnson(Knapton)
1972-73 Mary Martin (Turner)
1973-74 Dorothy Parkinson(Hunter)*
1974-75 Mary Willis (Skinner)
1975-76 Marion Constable(Ellison)*
1976-77 Anne Handley (Lister)
1977-78 Beryl Field (formerlyLindley) (Knapton)
1978-79 Lindsay Holdsworth(Moore)*
1979-80 Alison Moore (Patrick)
1980-81 Judy Burdass(Megginson)
1981-82 Jill (Gillian) Stephenson(Foster)
1982-83 Margaret Faulkner
1983-84 Mary Burdass(Bradshaw)
1984-85 Marie Gibson (Rickells)
1985-86 Ann Shanks (Christian)
1986-87 Adèle Crowe (Ferguson)
1987-89 Rachel Webster(Greensitt)
1989-91 Rachel Pallister (Mason)
1991-93 Patricia Wyatt (Lewis)
1993-95 Jenny Milner (Posnett)
1995-97 Rosi Rawson
1997-99 Erica Stary (Smith)
1999-2000 Joan Marshall*
2000-02 Caroline Donsworth(Bramley)
2002-03 Sylvia White (Lane)
2003-05 Ann Carlisle
2005-07 Diana Ablett (Grice)
2007-09 Margaret Jeffery(Clarke)
2009 - Hilary Maymen(Goodwin)
* now deceased
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