"As time goes by"....

The front cover of September Pathways is sponsored by an ex-patriot, Brian Dale, who now resides in Baildon.

Brian has written to let us know his family connection with St Barts. His mother Edna was a member of the Mothers' Union; he was a member of the choir, a server and was in the scouts, the football and cricket teams.

Royston his brother was a choir boy later leaving to join the Cathedral choir, his sister Eleanor and other brother Howard were both christened at St Barts.

"Why September?" he asks. "Both Michael and Howard died on September 9th yet many years separated their deaths."

He has sent us a number of photographs and the ones shown here are of the choir football team 1953 (above right) - they can be seen wearing black arm bands in honour of George VI.

And in the photo taken in 1951 (left) - Brian is on the left, Michael in the middle and Royston on the right. Perhaps some of you will remember the family and also some of the other boys shown in the team picture.