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Since my last post, I've been worrying about the name being Leatherbarrow.
Now that I see the name, it was definitely Hewitson who taught me woodwork.
I well remember the big stone wheel for sharpening tools. Also, I remember the glue-pot. This was an ancient iron pot of boiling water on top of a gas ring, and inside it nestled a smaller pot containing animal glue with a well-worn and stubby brush - it smelt awful, and whenever I catch a whiff of it these days, it takes me back to Balshaws woodworking days.
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Mention of the jewel box had me rooting mine out. It's not seen light of day for donkeys' years and now it must be 53! Red Mahogany wood with quite good dovetail joints. I also remember a wooden coat hook I did and that was that as far as woodwork was concerned although I did later join a woodwork class at night school and made a rather fetching mahogany coffee table. I wonder if you can still buy mahogany.
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I have the jewelry box as well, my wife uses it for her stuff. I remember the tea trolley, made from oak.
I've just been on a 200ft super yacht my son is working on, he's doing all the gold and silver leafing [an arab sheik is the owner]. All the woodwork is inlaid mahogany, solid not veneered. An Australian company is doing it. It looks fabulous.
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I remember one morning assembly when the hymn chosen was Old 100th. I was about 8 rows back from Stan at the piano and I sang the words to "Deutschland Uber Alles". Things came to a grinding halt, but they couldn't discover it was me!
I always thought it was in poor taste to use the tune of the German National Anthem for a hymen, no matter what its pedigree might have been, so soon after the end of the war.
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Fascinating news of the craftwork pieces that have survived over the years. Also the name Leatherbarrow now seems to have been a red herring as cleared up by JBax, so all the reminiscences relate to Harry Hewitson. I remain mystified about the GBH etc, which I did not hear about, and also about how Hewitson died. I was so pleased with my woodwork successes, including a nice round "occasional table" with an oak frame (still in use here), that when we married I assured my wife that we would save on the cost of furnishing because I would use my skills to make things. I cringe now to think of my naivety. She was rightly sceptical, and all that we got when it could be afforded was paid for.
Frank, your description of the part of Washington State where you live sounds really enticing. I will have a look at the map.
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The rumour about Hewitson at the time was that he had a brain tumour. I can't add anymore, I'm amazed I remember that.
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Does anyone remember being sent to the shop on Church Rd. for Harry's fags?
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I remember Jonny Naylor who used to try and catch us with them.
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I just noticed a rather embarassing typo on my last post to this string, where I got an "e" between the "m" and "n" in hymn.
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Just been ploughing through all 30 pages of this and have noticed lots of duplications (some from me!). About time someone edited it, perhaps.
A few memories, though. I reckon the talented pupil who played the organ at assemblies was indeed Graham Jackson. I remember him playing "Home in Pasedena" on morning (it was in the charts at the time, though I can't remember who recorded it).
He came from Eccleston and was organist at Eccleston Methodists for quite a long time. Heard him on the radio a few years ago when their "Morning Worship" programme was broadcast from there.
Don't know where he is now, but he went on to be a music teacher and lived in Penwortham, I think. He was MD of St Ambrose Players for a time when I performed in the G&S prouctions there. He also wrote a short cantata on an Easter theme and to my surprise asked me to sing the solos in it. I suspect that performance (at a big Methodist church in Preston) was the one and only time it was ever heard.
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