Hi, Eddie
You’ve probably forgotten me......I taught at the school from 1968>71 , under the headship of Mr Symposia. You were the Deputy HM at that time. You may recall that I was married in the Boma and later at the Church run by the White Fathers. I look back with mixed feelings concerning my time spent at Luwingu. On balance I will always look back with pleasure and also with regret...the weather was always wonderful, but the administration at that time was dreadful, as you will recall. “One Zambia, One Nation: One Zambia, One Frustration!” used to be the constant saying. Do you recall sitting around a camp fire on the staff compound listening to the Moon Landing?Thus it was with mixed feelings that I left Luwingu, to travel back to the UK by passenger liner from Cape Town. Since then, I have two fine sons, now aged 45 and 47 respectively, and I turned 80 this last February. Sadly my marriage lasted only 17 years, and after living in Starcross, near Exeter for 16 years, decided to move permanently to France, to a small village not far from the ferry port of Roscoff. It’s name is Henvic. I moved here in 2002, and have not regretted the move. Fortunately, my French is pretty good, and I had a hand in founding the Twinning Association between our two villages. I did manage to contact Edith Piper while I lived in Starcross, but haven’t heard from her since, nor from any other of the staff who were contemporaries, with the exception of one, George John, who kept notes about his time spent in Zambia. He later moved to Canada, but I don’t have his email address. I was mentioned in his Notes, to my astonishment, including my wedding. What a small world! If you ever get this email, by all means send me a reply, plus the email addresses of any staff members who were contemporaries. So all the best, and if you have any news of these in particular Mick Reid, Watson, Bew, Krishnamurthi, Proctor, Block, Piper, and any others I’d love to get in touch with them. So all the best if you get this, and send any email to me
Richard.Longridge@sfr.fr. Or by post to 22 bis, rue Croasmen, Henvic 29670, Finistère, France.