The Staff 'Grandstand' - Sports Day 1961

A section of the staff 'grandstand,' with the masses restrained at a safe distance!  Perhaps Alan Russell at the extreme left and Frank Laughton (Colonel Ping) in the middle of the front row (with moustache). Any more?

"We see Hobday lighting his pipe and Dudley behind Metcalfe.  An eagle eye with a few more pixels in the picture would then give us a start one the crowds behind!" - Dennis Herrell.

"I think 3rd from left at front is "Cuth" Terry followed by Laughton (wasn't he another of the Anglia weather presenters?)" - Charlie Smith.

"'Charlie' Russell was properly Alan Luther Russell, as I suspect his magazine obit will confirm. Seated to his left is the Revd. Hugh Norman McClure, who was boring everyone rigid with RE at the time - specifically Eusebius and Papias, of whom much mock was made (as Tony Seymour might confirm); he had three children in the school of whom Hilary, the middle one, was in my year. To his left is the German assistant, Wolfgang Sause, like Graeme Hobday* (and how glad I was to see his photo) a pipe smoker and a decent man (but unlike Garth very, very German). Vanessa McCafferty or Ros Scott might be able to confirm this identification if I'm correct."

"Mrs Metcalfe is sitting to Ray M's right. On the far right of the picture, I wonder if it isn't William Bramwell, who taught chemistry after being invalided out of industry - to which he later returned - a kindly man and a good teacher. I'm not a hundred per cent certain, so it would be interesting to find out how other people identify him."

* note the thickness of the soles on his shoes! - Ed.

Anonymous

Is the bald head looking away to the far right Pip Appleyard?  - John Mayes

"To recapitulate: back row, from the left; Alan Luther Russell, the Revd. Hugh Norman McClure, Wolfgang Sause (German Assistant for three or four years running), Eric Dudley, Mrs Metcalfe, Ray Metcalfe. Front Row: Graeme Hobday, DK (but is it the East House matron, Miss Dolan?), Mike Terry, Frank Laughton,  DK, DK, DK, William Bramwell.  Behind WB it certainly looks like a rear view of Pip Appleyard - always resembling a (red not grey) squirrel. I think John Mayes is right."

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