Austria and Switzerland visits

Austria and Switzerland visits.

In the nineteen fifties there were regular school trips to Austria and Switzerland. Mr Larter's time as a POW and later translator for the American army no doubt gave him an interest in the area.

One of our colleagues has a recollection of a trip.

" I remember Mr Larter taking some of us to Switzerland in a black Standard 8 estate car. As he drove through France the car packed up in some French village and we all looked down into the bonnet and made some suggestions on what to do as water hissed out of the side of the engine. Mr Larter walked off to get some help leaving us to it, so we all piled into a Cafe Tabac and bribed one of the men in the bar to get us all a pastis. The French man gave us some Gitanes cigarettes, I went green and walked off to the loo but to my horror a woman came out so I did a complete u turn. Mr Larter came back and never said a word to us. We finely got under way after staying two days in a French Hotel and finally arrived in Lucerne.

Driving on the way back home from Switzerland late at night we ran out of petrol. Mr Larter said “ looks like I will have to go and get some petrol”. It was pitch black as he walked off into the night. "

Another colleague regularly had his hair cut at Bioletti's the famous barbers shop in Penny Lane. When he told Jack Bioletti that he was going to Switzerland Jack asked him to send him a postcard of a “Swiss Miss”! Unfortunately on another occasion our colleague asked for a “square neck” cut (6d extra) and was caned by Mr Larter for having it as he had outlawed the 'decadence' of such a thing.

Below is a photo of pupils at Lime St. station, (some names below) off to Austria via London and Folkestone, then Calais, Basle and Innsbruck.

?	?	Mr.?	?	David		TOP
				McKittrick

Keith	Victor	?	Norman	Doug	?	BOTTOM
Crellin	Eales	Stokes	Mills	B Brady

Harry Davies--taken in Austria 1952 or 53.

Colin Scales on the balcony of the Swiss hotel 1956 or 7

Car used on the Swiss trip

Colin's hotel at Interlaken Switzerland

Chris Taylor--Photos taken on a school trip.

Peter Lloyd went on the school trip to Switzerland in 1956 the above being his Identity Card.