Trips Abroad: Italy 1956 & 1959
Italy 1959:
Back Row:
Ivor Cheale,
Mrs Cheale, 5th =Melvyn Round,
6th Richard Buchta, 7th (Face)=G.G.Martin, 8th
=Barrie Tall, Roy Tomlin, Jack Hobbs, John Dickinson,
M.Y. Palmer,
John Bailey, Cherry(?), Barry Clarke light shirt with short sleeves,
bare chested boy -
Gerald Woodhams), woman -
Mrs Ward, Charlie Ward, woman
– member of Ward party
Middle Row:
Terry Gotch is
kneeling in front, right of the lad with the open shirt.
Two places further right is Peter Wooding (check shirt, straw hat – still got ‘em!)
Front Row Left: D.
E.
Billing, M. Beswicke,
Ron
Palmer,
R. Hawkins, M Sharman, Richard Bryan, ? , Peter Laughton,
Courier
Far
right:
Tim Thompson,
Roger More
Intrepid Four–Bailey, Billing, Hawkins & Wooding made an
independent sortie to the top of Mt Vesuvius (Wooding, 1953/4)
Can you name the others? Visited Rome (5 nights), Naples and
Sorrento (four nights)
Group
Passport

Cost of Trip:
![]() £457 in 2006 according to Retail Price Index. Ivor And Mrs Cheale with boys on a gondola |
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Italy 1956: Same Photo supplied by Bob de Banke and Barrie Tall
Charlie Ward on left, next to him Ernie Briant. Ivor Cheale on the right
Older Boys: Barrie
Clarke (left Back row); Tony Doyle and Fred Nutt standing next to Barrie Tall
and Tony Mitchell third row back on right. If you can identify others let
me know.

