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  1955 Summer Lumen

Farnworth Grammar School

LUMEN, Summer Term 1955

The magazine was contributed by Winifred Fielding


This selection includes the Editorial as usual, together with the Cricket and Tennis reports; there are also several pieces by pupils, a page of autographs and another splendid caricature.


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Editorial

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The school

Written by a sixth-former who valued the school and its achievements.

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Cricket report

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Tennis report

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Mock election

The school's essay into practical politics seems to have met with a good response. The winner, a left-wing candidate who campaigned on a pro-nationalisation ticket, became a major industrialist and is now a knight of the realm.

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Staff cross-country

A tongue-in-cheek piece written by a sixth-former who, almost half a century later, provided much material and encouragement in the early days of this website. Nice one, Bill!

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Autographs

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Finally...

Another well-captured likeness from Lumen's anonymous cartoonist.
Does anyone recognise the monogram?
Dorothy Kay suggests that it may have been Mr, Ormerod himself.

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