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We walked 16 miles across the Beacons in typical Spring weather, windy and wet with occasional
bright spells. On the way back we had to disembark the coach because the bridge we had driven over
earlier in the day showed a weight restriction of 2.5 tons which we’d failed to see on the outward journey.
The figure sitting on the left is wearing a school cap. How he kept it on I do not know because the
wind coming up that escarpment was strong enough to lean on and the more foolhardy among us did so
without falling down the mountainside. The figure standing is clearly female in the original photo.
Don’t ask me how, I haven’t a clue!
The figure on the left of the third photograph appears to be Colin Wilson. Take a look at the larger
image and see what you think.
The visibility at times was very poor and probably a gang of ill-equipped school boys should not
have been there. However if the kill joys from the Health & Safety Executive had been in existence
in 1959 we would not have had these memories to look back on.
