Further Tribute to Peter from the following OSB:

Barry Lancaster (G 58-60).

“Sad to hear about Peter.

Long before we met at St Bees, we shared a black and white pony. Flicker spent some time at our farm but belonged to Peter’s relatives the Greens.

Many years after leaving school we met at some function in Workington and in talking over old times and connections we discovered that we had both known Flicker.

I think Flicker also spent some time in Skipton, which I believe is where Peter was from back then.

Also, I have previously mentioned that Walter Fletcher also lives in Mosman, which is a suburb of Sydney. His wife Jane is the daughter of Air Marshal Gus Walker who was also an Old St Beghian.

I reconnected with Walter many years ago when I was giving a talk, probably about computers. We had just returned from living in Papua New Guinea for a number of years and there sitting in the front row was the ever cheeky Walter. He still has that cheeky grin.

Computers and technology in Papua New Guinea were fascinating. They almost went from stone-age to modern technology without any in between. We were able to direct dial my parents in Cumbria from Papua New Guinea in 1972 which was many years before that was available in the UK.

I recall that Peter was an anthropologist of renown, so when we met, we not only discussed Flicker but also my experiences in the amazing Niugini (the name in Pidgin (the lingua franca of PNG)).

It can be a small world.”

 

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