Greyfriars Graveyard

Thank you to Ian Hastie, a former pupil of Norton Park school, for allowing me to reproduce this photo.

Ian wrote:

1956

"This photo was taken in Greyfriars Graveyard in 1956.  I am on the left and  George Hathaway is in the middle, but I'm afraid I don't remember the fellow on the right."

Ian Hastie, Coventry, Warwickshire, England:  July 7+12, 2011

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David Ford

David Ford wrote:

Greyfriars' Graveyard

"I've just found this photo of three boys in Greyfriars' Graveyard from Ian Hastie.

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Would you believe it?  I took that photograph with a new Zeiss camera bought for me by my journeyman, Bert Chalmers, a very well known amateur photographer in Edinburgh, who encouraged me to take up the hobby."

Ian, George and Jimmy

"The lad on the right is Jimmy Burns, a lifelong friend.  The four of us used to meet at St Margaret's Loch to chat up the girls.  Ian was always up front for that!

I think George is no longer with us, but I hope I'm wrong.  He went to Easter Island in the army and suffered radiation poisoning from the atom bomb tests.  Enough said""

David Ford: April 6, 2012

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