Summer Times is the Journal of the Old Scarborians Association

In due course due to personal circumstances,
storing the bats became a problem and I do‐
nated them to the Scarborough Cricket Club.
Eventually it disposed of them. Two years ago
when I was last in Scarborough I found one of
the bats on display in the bar of the St. Nicho‐
las Hotel. However I do not know where the
remainder are and I would like to trace them
so that I could take photographs for my
memorabilia.
If any reader can help me in my search would
he please be kind enough to let me know? I
can be contacted at: Lyndon Wainwright, 1
Cowden Road, Brighton, BN2 8DD.
Tel: 01273 307374.
Sincerely
Lyndon Wainwright
(who my contemporaries may remember best
as “Mighty” ‐ all 5’4” of me!)
ALAN SWANSON
REMEMBERS (1939-49)
Unconnected items arising from the latest
Summer Times (which was very good, as
usual).
Samuel Rockinghorse: I can’t offer an article,
but I can offer two anecdotes from seasons of
school plays. First: when the stage was in
place across the corner of the Hall, and re‐
hearsals were taking place in the evenings, one
of the ordinary light switches was taped over
to prevent the light coming on when not
wanted. Mr Smith disliked this and removed
the tape. When Mr Rice asked us 6th using
that part of the Hall (Room 8?) for a free pe‐
riod who had done it and we told him, the
reply was “What does Mr Smith think this
place is: a school?” Second: one December
when the stage was up, there had been several
hard frosts and the open troughs that took the
efflux from the sinks in the chemistry lab
above that end of the Hall were blocked, with
the result that something was dripping from
the ceiling just above where Governors would
be sitting that evening. Mr Rice’s distress was
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not lessened when one of us 6th Bob Nettle‐
ship, said “Wouldn’t be so bad if it was only
water”. (Almost certainly it was water, or very
dilute something else.)
Hov’s memoirs: reading these made me won‐
der what sort of a culture shock it was for
masters who had lived that kind of life and
seen the things described to be faced day after
day with rows of boys who had led such rela‐
tively sheltered lives.
Speech Day photo: the standard of reproduc‐
tion makes me less than certain, but the man
presenting the prize looks a bit like Dr (later
Professor) Sydney C Harland. If so, the year
was 1949. Sydney Harland was a product of
the Muni, and led a remarkable life in the
West Indies and South America before return‐
ing to the UK where he became a Reader and
then a Professor at Manchester. He was one of
the few Old Boys (if we count the Muni and
SBHS as one for this purpose) to be elected to
the Fellowship of the Royal Society, for his
work on cotton genetics.
Keep up the good work.
NOSTALGIA - 50 years ago
Fiftieth Anniversary of the
First XI's Hospital Cup Win