3 carol concerts in 4 days

The children’s choir at Hebden Bridge church

View from the choir stalls. I sang in the choir and played the piano.

Candlelight carol service at Halifax Minster were so many of my ancestors were married. I’d never really thought about the fact that when these precious buildings were built the only light available would have been candlelight.

Prize-winning Elland silver band accompanied some of the carols

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Then to my old school – Bolton School – to relive some memories. 7 years at this school. I went with my friend Judith who I met on our first day! The Great hall hasn’t changed at all, except there were no paper angels in our day. The school has been used for several TV series including Last Tango in Halifax.

The reception for the alumni was accompanied by some lovely string playing

In one of our old classrooms

My form room was on this corridor – #K. It wasn’t carpeted in 1966 but a few of the pictures on the walls date from then!

This one is more recent.

My Upper sixth form room – UpVIC

The place where I had my first organ lessons

This portrait of Lord Leverhulme, the school’s benefactor, used to be above the organ on the stage before the organ was rebuilt during my time at the school. We had ‘prayers’ every morning in a whole school assembly. I used to think this was a picture of the God we were praying to!