Hello Steve et al,
Thanks to your excellent memory I can now work my magic on the Wikipedia article
City_of_Bath_Technical_School , A snippet to the biography o
f Sir_Bernard_Lovell plus
Bath Abbey and a link to
Raymond Jones
via your picture of the Hutments in 1964 showing Ray Jones. That is of
course if you will allow the use of your photograph to be included in
our School article on Wikipedia.
Here is something I found today that will interest you all...(maybe) at
Physics academy Bristol Student Memories of Bristol
Sir Bernard LovelI
"My
first contact with the University was the most decisive of my life. It
occurred when I was a reluctant schoolboy. My ambitions for an academic
career were negligible. I wanted to leave school to enter the radio
business and play cricket. Then for the sake of the evening outings I
joined a small group being taken by the physics master to a series of
public lectures on 'The electric spark'. They were given by Professor A.
M. Tyndall in the lecture theatre of the H. H. Wills Physical
Laboratory in the University. Later in life I learnt that these were a
repetition of the children's Christmas lectures which Tyndall had given
at the Royal Institution. At that moment I was 15 years old, living with
my parents in the countryside, cycling every day 2 miles to the school
recently opened and then known as the Kingswood Secondary School.
Tyndall opened a new world of which I had no previous acquaintance. The
environment, the demonstrations and the apparatus filled me with awe.
Now, nearly half a century later, I can see those great sparks ripping
across the lecture room, infra-red rays being focussed by a mirror, the
effect of ultra-violet light on natural and false teeth, and the
laboratory steward, Venn, operating a massive slide projector and
epidiascope with a hissing carbon arc as the light
source................................"
"............................
they had to be taken home via the Royal Fort even though it was 2 am.
As well as cricket and this social life there was time for music. On
Monday nights I journeyed to Bath where Raymond Jones (who was later
Assistant Organist at Bath Abbey — he retired in 1975) was my teacher,
and at lunch time I would take my sandwiches to a church on the other
side of the Suspension Bridge for daily practice. Even on £120 a year it
was a pleasant and full life. The rumblings from Europe seemed far
away. The Spanish Civil War, Hitler, Mussolini and Abyssinia were all
erupting during those years. One Saturday night I walked out of the
laboratory with the refugee Frank, to be faced with placards 'Hitler
marches into the Rhineland'. I well remember his rage that nothing had
been done to stop this. The University and Bristol were pleasant places
in those years."
So, a little bit more or our history will be written soon. Regards.
P.S. Listen to Sir Bernard Lovell about Ray Jones here
Web Stories - Organs.
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