School Journeys

St Malo, 1957

Taken on the 1957 St.Malo trip (one of many visits to the area) and submitted by Brian Harding (1953-1960). The colourful trip to Mont St.Michel is remembered by all participants in the trips.

• On the left at the back, Albert Calland and in front of him Douglas Ball who organised the trip. On the extreme right is Kenneth McRobert Evans, a temporary maths teacher from Australia. Brian Harding is five along from Albert Calland, the intervening names being (l to r) Rod White, ? , Michael Herman, David Press.
• The Group taken by the ramparts of the town. On the left Tom Abbott (P.E. Master alongside Leslie Mitchell) with his wife. sitting on the wall Michael Herman, David Press (later to find fame as Oedipus in the School Play!), Brian Shaw. On the extreme right Messrs. Calland and Evans stand with Douglas Ball and his wife and (I think) the local French guide.
• Most of the same participants visiting the lighthouse.
• A second version of the group photo in front of Mont St.Michel.

Kenneth Evans is the photographer and has disappeared from the right hand side of the photo.

(Colour print by courtesy of Albert Calland.)

• This one is a bit of a mystery.

Here is a mystery submitted by Alan Levene (1953-1957 who believes it to represent a visit to Skerries near Dublin in 1953/4. The Review is strangely silent on this trip but the presence on the extreme right of Mr. Owain (and his wife) dates it as pre-autumn 1955, whilst the presence also of Alan Levene himself (Front row, extreme right) and David Nathan with Ronnie Barden and Alan Simmons (front Row 4th, 5th and 6th from Right respectively) with Peter Nottingham immediately behind David Nathan, dates it as post September, 1953.

Mr. Glenny, famed for his spirited organ playing in the Theatre at Assembly, also appears, third from left, probably with Mrs. Glenny alongside. Can anyone throw light on this trip?