Your letters
By an extraordinary coincidence, on the morning that I received my December copy of Dalesman, I had just had a twenty-minute conversation over the phone with the ex-POW and very talented organist to whom WR Mitchell referred in his nostalgic article.
Johannes Baumann was a nineteen-year-old musician, captured in Guernsey and brought to Bolton Abbey camp almost at the end of the war. He requested permission from the camp commandant to keep up his skills by practising on the church organs in the town, and spent much of the time made available to him on the instrument of the Gargrave Road Methodist Church to which WRM refers.
Your letters
By an extraordinary coincidence, on the morning that I received my December copy of Dalesman, I had just had a twenty-minute conversation over the phone with the ex-POW and very talented organist to whom WR Mitchell referred in his nostalgic article.
Johannes Baumann was a nineteen-year-old musician, captured in Guernsey and brought to Bolton Abbey camp almost at the end of the war. He requested permission from the camp commandant to keep up his skills by practising on the church organs in the town, and spent much of the time made available to him on the instrument of the Gargrave Road Methodist Church to which WRM refers.