Re: Death of a Pirate


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Posted by Rob Boden on September 21, 2006 at 17:16:24 from 88.104.198.34 user humyar.

In Reply to: Re: Death of a Pirate posted by Alan Hakim on September 19, 2006 at 21:22:55:

The Guardian today, Thursday 21st,(www.guardian.co.uk) carries a substantial obituary of John Young by Roger Prolz, their real ale contributor. He has a different angle: that the Youngs met AR on the River Orwell.

"But John's first love was sailing: he was educated at the Nautical College in Pangbourne. Sailing holidays in the late 1930s on the river Orwell in Suffolk brought John and his brothers into contact with Arthur Ransome at Pin Mill, the setting for We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea. Ransome claimed that he, rather than the brothers' father, introduced the boys to the pleasures of beer and darts."

Any comments? - and was AR a darts player?

Rob


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