Robin Brooksbank-Pearcy (SH 57-60) has sent an update as follows:

“Last month, I reached the dizzy heights of receiving my State Pension, yet I must admit, I feel like 14 when I was on School House! The memories are so vivid and of course, one always remembers the good times more than the bad ones! In 1996, I retired from the Leeds Building Society at the age of 52 but since then, I have never worked so hard - I took up electrical installations and plumbing, with a few D.I.Y. tasks thrown in, trading as “Acme Maintenance” in my little white van - no stress, no pressure as in the finance sector i.e. a ton weight off each shoulder!

In between my pleasurable jobs, I have created my own recording studio at home. My love of music was instilled into me by the late Don Leggatt, Music Teacher at St. Bees. His spectrum of knowledge was immense and I built on this, ending up playing the Mighty Wurlitzer organ in Blackpool at the world famous Tower Ballroom in 1983. If I achieve nothing else in life after that I shall die a very happy man!”

The St. Beghian Society,
St. Bees School, St. Bees, Cumbria, CA27 0DS
Tel: 01946 828093
osb@st-bees-school.co.uk