On the terrace of The Warren, Edale with Bill Saltmarsh and son, Joe. Taken in 1990, and kindly sent in by Paul Smurthwaite.
Outside The Warren, Edale
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On Kinder Scout in balaclava
This was kindly sent in by Paul and Caroline Smurthwaite.
George during national service
“Resist, and I will shoot”
While George was an officer working for the UN in the Congo in 1960, his platoon was guarding a radio station as Congo Premier Lumumba tried to enter to make a broadcast. George remembered the situation as being “quite confusing”, and not heroic at all. Lumumba raised his arms, thinking he was being arrested, and George remembered pulling them down again in an attempt to calm the situation. George was quite embarrassed at the media coverage that then resulted in the UK. The story made most of the daily papers. He said he did not remember saying “resist, and I will shoot”, for example, as quoted in this front page Daily Mirror story (click to zoom):
On Kinder Scout in the snow
Leaning on a gate in Edale
On Kinder Scout in the 70’s
Nice photo of George
Mrs Moon’s
“There was hardly a dry eye — and certainly not a dry throat — in the house as a shabby Fleet Street dive bar closed its doors for the last time.”
Click on these two images to see the rest of the Reuters World magazine article on the closing of Mrs Moon’s in Fleet Street.
There was an incident
All trainees will remember George’s advice for getting the lead right: imagine you are speaking to a friend moving away on a bus…
