The Maltonian Website - for Malton School

The Maltonian Web Gallery - 1980s

Switzerland Trip 1985 and a staff play

Richard Peters lent me these photos to scan back in 2003. He didn't provide any names or details - but from the Facebook traffic generated by posting these on the Maltonians Facebook page, a few facts have emerged. Chris Gill commented: "Travelled through Germany with an overnight stay by the Rhine and into Switzerland staying in Interlaken for about week then overnight stay in Paris on the way home. It was a joint trip with Easingwold school as Mrs Smith, teacher at Malton arranged it for Malton pupils and Mr Smith was a teacher at Easingwold would have been in May 1985". A few names were thrown up - Melanie Wright, Liz Cook, Paula Cook, Jason Hick, Chris Gill, Debbie Delaney, Liz Hudson, Heidi Fox, James Morris, Anselm Dorman?, Viv from Whitwell. I have tried to attribute names where I can. The Heads Report for 1984-5 describes the trip as "8 days in the Bernese Oberland, Easter 1985. "

Interlaken May 1985

Staff Play 1983: Hay Fever (Noel Coward)

I think this play was a staff only production, probably in 1983, but I know little about it. Richard Peters and Home Economics teacher Moira Wood are in the cast. Adrian Everitt emailed in July 2023 to tell me he had a minor part. He also said that deputy head John Christal is the other staff member in the photos, and that the girl at the table is actually a 6th former, Alison Burnett, the only non-member of staff. Alison wrote a review in the New Maltonian of 1983. It was directed by head of English Alex Joannidis.