Sam Ashton (SH 47-53) has sent in the following:

“The recent tv documentary on Alfred Wainwright with all those views of the fells recalled memories of Sundays’ and Three Quarter Days’ expeditions from when I was a thirteen year old with a blue ticket which read ‘Wood, Barr, Ashton, & Kalflaath, Pillar via Ennerdale.’ We left our bikes at the end of the (unpaved) road then hiked up Black Sail, past that lonely Youth Hostel, then veered off to climb Pillar, and then returned. No problem.

In my father’s day they really were Three Quarter Days, lessons until mid-morning then away. He was Ben R. Ashton 1919 to 1923 and brought me up to St Bees in the summer term of 1947 to sit the common entrance exam, which was held in the ‘Arctic Circle’. As soon as I saw the school and grounds I was hooked.”

 

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