ANOTHER TAKE ON CLARION SUNDAY

ANDREW LIVESEY – LONDON CLARION

>> I decided to try it, wow a cycle path from Ambleside to Grasmere, some steep hills, with the electric bike in ‘Turbo Setting’ and 29er wheels it was a wiz. If you want to try it I recommend Ghyllside Cycles, they are about 100 yards –now we have left the EU there is no requirement to use metres – from the start of the actual cycle path.

I’d written an article for the Burnley Express the week before Clarion Sunday 2022, expressing my desires to make this a big event, a post-COVID special. It certainly turned up a very big surprise for me. One voice that I did not expect to hear ever again. My name called out from behind me. I thought I know that voice, teachers’ voices never change. Like listening to Tony Blackburn on the radio, it could be any year at all. The number in attendance was over 300, this included Clarion Cyclists, Clarion Ramblers, Clarion choir and ILP stalwarts.

So, who’s was the voice. I could not believe it. Mr Burrows, my woodwork teacher from Barden School –AKA – Able Street Secondary Modern. He taught me a lot of very useful hand skills, and took my class cycling to Youth Hostels in the Yorkshire Dales.