Letter: Memories of choir RECENT correspondence from John Pallister and Roger Ingham regarding Skipton Parish Church choir triggered happy memories of the 14 years I was a member, “boy and man”. I don’t remember the mischief making on Albert Street – I probably didn’t join in as I lived round the corner on Coach Street and would possibly have been recognised! Neither John nor Roger mentioned the annual choirboys’ summer outing by train usually to Morecambe, supervised (with increasing frustration) by the choirmaster, Norman Mosley and one of the choir men Harold Gawith. After causing chaos in Morecambe, we continued to do so on the return train journey when all 15-or-so of us seemed to have spent our pocket money on water pistols, no doubt to the annoyance of all other travellers in the carriage.
EASTAMPTON - At a somber vigil marked by grief, tears and flickering candles, Yvonne Coates felt oddly at ease Sunday night. It brings me comfort, as weird as that sounds, said the Pemberton Township woman, who joined a gathering of about 100 people who had lost loved ones to violent crime. Everybody around me feels the same and you don t have to explain anything, she said of participants at an event organized by the Burlington County Prosecutor s Office. Everybody has the the same hopes, they have the same sorrow, said Coates, whose gray hoodie carried a message for Norman Mosley, a nephew slain in a home-invasion robbery in September 2016.
Roger Ingham being congratulated by Ermysted s headmaster in 1961 after winning seniors race THE piece in Craven Diary (Ermysted s annual cross country event, March 11) can be expanded. In the 1920 s (if not ever since) the sports winners at Ermysted s were given an inscribed bronze medal. My late father in law, George Mason won the half mile in 1922 and I have the medal along with a good photo of the large field of runners scrambling down Park Hill. George went on to become a governor of the girls school and later the boys school. On a more personal note, Roger Ingham may be Mr Sport to the readers, but he was first noted as a singer!