Club Proceedings
1964
The week-end meets were: January 17th 19th, The Hill Inn, Chapel-le-Dale; February 7th—9th, Low Hall Garth; March 6th—8th, Mungrisdale; Easter, March 26th—31st, Coylumbridge, Cairngorms; April 17th—19th, South Wales; Whitsun, May 15th—24th, The Isle of Rhum; June 5th—7th, The Long Walk, Kirk Yetholm to Byrness; June 26th—28th, High Level Camp, Sty Head; July 17th—19th, Lowstern Hut (Lost Johns’); August 14th—16th, Lowstern Hut (Pothole Training); September 4th—6th, Bewdy Mawr, Joint Meet with Rucksack Club; September 25th—27th, The Robertson Lamb Hut, Joint Meet with Wayfarers and Rucksack Clubs; October 9th—11th, Harden, Austwick; October 24th—25th, The Punch Bowl Inn, Low Row, Swaledale; December 11th—13th, The Lion Hotel, Cray. The average attendance reached the record figure of 26 and the Club Membership was 190. The deaths were recorded in 1964 of A. F. Falkingham and Davis Burrow.
The 72nd Annual General Meeting was held at the Hotel Majestic, Harrogate, on November 21st, 1964. The following officers of the Club were elected for the year 1964/65: President: W. P. B. STONE-HOUSE; Vice-Presidents: B. E. NICHOLSON, J. A. DOSSOR; Hon. Treasurer: S. MARSDEN; Hon. Secretary: E. C. DOWNHAM; Hon. Asst. Secretary: W. C. I. CROWTHER; Hon. Editor: H. G. WATTS; Hon. Asst. Editor and Librarian: A. B. CRAVEN; Hon. Huts Secretary : F. D. SMITH; Hon. Hut Wardens: Low Hall Garth, J. D. DRISCOLL, Lowstern, J. RICHARDS; Hon. Auditor: G. R. TURNER; Committee: G. B. SPENCELEY, A. R. CHAPMAN, E. M. TREGONING, R. GOWING, J. R. MIDDLETON, W. WOODWARD.
The 51st Annual Dinner followed the Meeting and was also at the Hotel Majestic. The Principal Guest was Tom Weir and the retiring President, R. E. Chadwick, was in the Chair. Kindred Clubs were represented by T. Howard Somervell, President, Alpine Club; J. P. Cooper, President, Rucksack Club; F. E. Yule, Scottish Mountaineering Club; I. M. Waller, Climbers’ Club; R. Cook, Wayfarers’ Club; R. A. Davis, Midland Association of Mountaineers; F. Falkingham, Gritstone Club; T. Pettit, Craven Pothole Club; D. Casseldon, Bradford Pothole Club. The attendance was 154 members and guests. The after-dinner meet was at the Fell Hotel, Burnsall, where there was a gathering of over 80; after tea Tom Weir showed his splendid colour slides of the Scottish Highlands.
On February 3rd, 1964, Harry Stembridge gave a lecture to the Club at the Metropole Hotel in Leeds on “Mountain and Jungle in Peru”, a trip which he had done with Alf Gregory in 1963. The slides, taken by Gregory, were excellent and the talk conveyed all Harry’s enthusiasm for the mountains, for climbing, for the flowers and natural beauty and for the Indian people and the evidences of their history.
On April 9th, 1964, Alf Gregory, by joint arrangement with the Yorkshire Mountaineering Club, gave a public lecture entitled ‘The Ascent of Everest, Distegil, The Karakoram and Solu Khumbu’, with colour cine’ films and colour slides.
1965
Week-end Meets were: January 22nd—24th, The Hill Inn, Chapel-le-Dale; February 12th—14th, Low Hall Garth; March 5th— 7th, The Blue Bell Hotel, lngleby Cross; March 26th—28th, The Mendips; Easter, April 16th—19th, Glen Nevis; May 14th—16th, High Level Camp, Dovedale, Lake District; Whitsun, June 4th—12th, Knoydart; July 2nd—4th, The Long Walk, Sedbergh to Ambleside; July 30th— August 1st, Lowstern Hut; September 3rd—5th, The Helyg Hut; September 24th—26th, The Robertson Lamb Hut, Joint Meet with Wayfarers’ and Rucksack Clubs; October 22nd—24th, The Black Bull Hotel, Sedbergh; December 10th—12th, The Rose and Crown Hotel, Bainbridge. The average attendance at meets remained at the high figure of 26 and the membership of the Club was 189, including 4 Honorary, 20 Life, 2 Junior and 163 Ordinary Members. The Club lost two members by death in 1965, W. Wells-Hood and W. H. Watson.
The 73rd Annual General Meeting was held at the Hotel St. George, Harrogate, on November 20th, 1965. The officers elected to serve for the year 1965/66 were: President: W. P. B. STONEHOUSE; Vice-Presidents: J. A. DOSSOR, F. D. SMITH; Hon. Treasurer: S. MARSDEN; Hon. Secretary: E. C. DOWNHAM; Hon. Asst. Secretary: W. C. I. CROWTHER; Hon. Editor: H. G. WATTS; Hon. Asst. Editor and Librarian: A. B. CRAVEN; Hon. Huts Secretary: F. D. SMITH; Hon. Hut Wardens: Low Hall Garth, J. D. DRIS-COLL, Lowstern, J. RICHARDS; Hon. Auditor: G. R. TURNER; Committee: G. B. SPENCELEY, A. R. CHAPMAN, E. M. TRE-GONING, R. GOWING, J. R. MIDDLETON, W. WOODWARD.
The 52nd Annual Dinner followed the Meeting and was also at the Hotel St. George; the menu card commemorated the centenary of the first ascent of the Mattherhorn by Edward Whymper, the Club’s first Honorary Member. The Principal Guest was Sir John Hunt and the President, W. P. B. Stonehouse, was in the Chair. Kindred Clubs were represented by Eric Ship ton, President, Alpine Club; Albert Ravens-croft, President, Wayfarers’ Club; Ken Tarbuck, Rucksack Club; Francis Falkingham, Gritstone Club; Ron Brotherton, Fell and Rock Climbing Club; Len Cook, Craven Pothole Club; Maurice Church, Yorkshire Mountaineering Club. The number of members and guests present was 157. The after-dinner meet was at the Hart’s Head at Giggleswick and the attendance was about 80.
On January 17th, 1966, Alf Gregory gave a talk, illustrated by his own slides, on mountain photography. Comment on Gregory’s mountain photography is superfluous, but also included was a series of incredibly vivid and beautiful pictures of insects and flowers in the rain forests of Peru, the products of much patience, of time and of suffering caused by other, less photogenic, insects.
New Members Since Journal No. 32
1964
| Farrant, Darrell J. | 19 Hartley Road, Birkdale, Southport, Lancashire. |
| Margetts, Anthony J. | 680a Bradford Road, Birkenshaw, Bradford. |
| Carswell, Jack | “Netherlea”, Primrose Terrace, Harrington, Workington, Cumberland. |
1965
| Hamlin, John F. | 290 Cross Flats Grove, Leeds, 11. |
| Watson, Graham | Heaton Rise, Bradford. |
| Judson, David M. | 3 Hilton Road, Leeds, 8. |
| Lythe, John | The Cottage, Leathley, Near Otley. |
| White, Alec | 22 Whinney Lane, Pannal Ash, Harrogate. |
| Josephy, Timothy W. | 8 Weetwood Park Drive, Leeds, 16, Yorkshire. |
| Harris, Albert P. R. | “The Chequers”, 11 Boroughbridge Road, Knaresborough. |
1966
| Godley, David | 29 Beech Avenue, Worksop, Nottinghamshire. |
| Church, Maurice | “Brooklyn”, 9 Doncaster Road, East Hardwick, Pontefract. |
Resignations
1964
M. Bowling
1965
P. W. Bedford J. A. Schofield
1966
D. R. McKelvie
Deaths
1964
Davis Burrow A.F. Falkingham
1965
W.H. Watson W. Wells-Hood