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Gordon and I have been exploring a fishing theme of late, and you can consider the latest instalment wrapped (see below).
Do you remember this, Gordon? It is an extract from a ‘letter’ I sent to you in 2013.
‘It is interesting to note (in a 1969 cutting from the Westmorland Gazette) Hubert Butler’s statement that the increase in motor cars and boats was impinging on Huyton Hill’s outdoor ethos and that this was contributory to the School’s closure. I remember my grandfather (who lived in Ambleside) complaining about speed boats on the lake. He said that these had destroyed the peace and tranquillity of Windermere and ruined the fishing. He was a master of hyperbolic storytelling, and, on one occasion, claimed that not a solitary fish had been seen or caught in the lake for the previous six months. Apparently, the last to be seen had popped its head out of the water and promptly been run down by a speed boat! It was the way that he told it too – the fine line between gravity and levity, sinker and float.’
I mentioned to her that Hubert is buried at Broughton (thank you Gordon for that information – can’t remember if I’ve added the photos to the website), which is just north of Preston, so we carried on down the old A6 to Broughton churchyard, while not being sure if we’d find his and Nita’s grave.
Julie went ahead of me while I parked the car and shouted ‘The first grave is Hercules Scott Butler, is he a relation?’ I replied that he was Hubert’s father. We wandered up and down the graves and among the more recent ones was Hubert and Nita’s. I was pleased to find both of them.
I attach photos of the graves and also the church, which has an ancient set of stocks outside! Sadly, I always say that as a photographer, I make a good truck driver. To be fair, the ones of the graves were taken into the sun. 2 out of 10, must try harder!
I see that both GVB and HDB were born when HSB was in his late forties. He was vicar at Preston from 1900 to 1920, so I guess that’s why he rated first place in the graveyard!
Both of those headstones have what appears to be the Butler family crest proverb on it, which if I remember rightly is also on GVB’s headstone. Timor Domini fons vitae – The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life
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Do you remember this, Gordon? It is an extract from a ‘letter’ I sent to you in 2013.
‘It is interesting to note (in a 1969 cutting from the Westmorland Gazette) Hubert Butler’s statement that the increase in motor cars and boats was impinging on Huyton Hill’s outdoor ethos and that this was contributory to the School’s closure. I remember my grandfather (who lived in Ambleside) complaining about speed boats on the lake. He said that these had destroyed the peace and tranquillity of Windermere and ruined the fishing. He was a master of hyperbolic storytelling, and, on one occasion, claimed that not a solitary fish had been seen or caught in the lake for the previous six months. Apparently, the last to be seen had popped its head out of the water and promptly been run down by a speed boat! It was the way that he told it too – the fine line between gravity and levity, sinker and float.’