Farnworth Grammar School

Excerpts from Lumen
(Summer Term, 1937)

The magazine was lent by Jim Pedley

For many, the summer of 1937 was a time of peace and stability. The constitutional crisis over the abdication of King Edward VIII had been sorted and the reluctant but much-loved George VI reigned over his respectful subjects in a British Empire on which the sun never set. School life jogged along at its customary pace, and Fisher Raworth's in Market Street would sell you a top-of-the-range Raleigh bicycle for less than a fiver (or 25p down and 12 monthly payments of 48p — although buying 'on tick' in those days was something most people didn't want their neighbours to know about).

Few could have foreseen that, only two years later, the nation and the empire would be engaged in a war that was to change the world forever.

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