Ian Whittaker (SH/FS 45-50) has written:

“After leaving St Bees I went to the London College of Printing for three years and then to my National Service. I was commissioned in the Royal Signals, spending some twelve months in Germany.

When I was demobbed I joined my father's company for a while then went off to make my own way, working in various companies. 

In 1986 my wife and I took on a guest house near Gatwick Airport for ten years.  I kept my job at the same time, working at that time in Fleet Street until I retired in 1994.  After we sold up we stayed in the area until 2005 when we moved to Church Stretton in Shropshire. 

We have two offspring, a daughter and a son, and five grandchildren, all now grown up and thankfully doing well in their various ways.

When we came to Church Stretton I joined Probus and at the first meeting decided to wear my Old St Beghian tie, which was immediately noticed by another old boy, Michael Beattie, who was in School House at the same time I was there, although I had to admit that I could not remember him!”

 

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