Mike Charnley (FN 70-75) writes about Mark ‘Jump’ Adams. “I was very sorry to read in the Bulletin of the death of Marc 'jump' Adams and send my condolences to the family.
We both went through Foundation North together and spent the final year at the old Abbots Court Hotel! I often wondered what he got up to after St Bees and assumed he was perhaps involved in diving from the rigs in the North Sea as I remember he did some diving at school. I knew his brother Nicholas as a senior though our lives at St Bees were limited to our forms. Nic did in part organise a visit to see Eric Richardson at his home in Nenthead to talk and see his rock collection! Marc was with me for that. Eric had written a book 'Pennine Lead-Miner' and I was studying geology, alone, for A level in my final year.
Why jumpy? Well, the photographs I have included with this piece show Marc at St Bees Head when I used him as scale for some sandstone pictures, perhaps it was in 1975. Another picture shows some hike in the fells when we were on the way to the railway station. I am not sure who is on the far left, maybe MacNaughton, but going left to right Andrew Carr, Bernie Moore, Marc Adams and Graham Nicholas. I think it was in 1974.”

 

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