Cumbria (West) Branch Dinner - February 2026, Armathwaite Hall, Nr Keswick, Cumbria - St Beghian Society Social Gathering 2026.
With 71 OSBs, partners and friends in attendance and spanning several decades, it was a lovely occasion which, we understand, went on into the early hours for those who could sustain the pace! Not quite as many as 2025, but nevertheless a good number. Next year, those OSBs who were at school in the 1980s are hoping to make it a big reunion event and are rallying around to encourage people to put the date Friday 26th February 2027 in their diary. Of course, all OSBs, wives, partners and friends, of whatever vintage, are invited and we look forward to seeing you there.
Attendees: Officials of the Society – Darryl Davies (FS 62-68) (President) and Pat Davies (Staff 91-01), David Lord (SH 60-65) (Treasurer) and Fiona Lord (Staff 93-07), and Pam Rumney (Secretary). Alumni –Bill Colbeck (FN 49-55) and Isobel Colbeck, Tim Brown (G 53-58), Edward Thompson (F 54-59), Richard Lockwood (FS 59-64) and Sally Hopkinson, Carter Croft (FN 60-65) and Lynda Croft, John West (SH 61-64), Stephen Downham (G 61-65),  Anthony Dearden (FS 62-66) and Eileen Taylor, David Rowlands (G 62-68), Julian Wood (SH 63-66) and Judith Wood, Tim Mackay (FS 68-73), Michael Gillman (SH 68-73), Andrew Johnston (G 68-73), Joe Croasdale (FS 70-75), David Paul (FN/AC 71-76) and Vashti Ragoonanan, Frank Godber (FN/AC 72-79) and Sharon Sampson, Adrian Peckitt (FS 72-77), Paul Maybury (FS 73-77) and Sarah Maybury (nee Howard), Richard Ward (FN 74-77), Ken Rangecroft (FN 74-78), Stephen Pickthall (FN 74-78), Fergus Wilkie (SH 74-80) and Suzanne Wilkie, Andrew Carr (G 74-79), Anthony Kearsley (G 75-77) and Jo Harris, Dougal Reed (FN 75-80) and Partner, James Crossley-Smith (SH 75-80), Simon Heap (SH 75-82), Symon Brown (FS 75-78) and Sheila Brown, Mark Steele (SH/AC 77-84) and Jane Steele, Ed Wilkie (SH 77-84), Jonathan Hodgson (SH 78-85), James Kirpalani (SH 79-83), Howard Graham (FS 80-87), Sarah Cousins (nee Eynon) (G 80-87), Lynn Bentley-Stuart (nee Butcher) (G 81-83), Claire Scougie (nee Eynon) (G 82-89), Nigel Fletcher (SH 82-87), Kele Mbagwu (SH 82-84), Jonathan Steele (FS 82-87), Simon Steele (FS 85-89), Paul Cummings (AC 86-88), Victoria Davies (L 94-99), Laurence Gribble (SH 2002-09/Current Interim Headmaster), Jake Gildert (2012-14). Current members of Staff and Partners - Corrine Alexander and Nick Gribble, Helen Bertram and Jamie Bertram, Vanessa Johnson and John Johnson, Becky Bell and Adam Bell. Friends of the School - Louise Harvey, Stuart Burns and Nancie Stone.
Further photos may be seen here - Batch 1 and Batch 2.

 

 

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