Mike and Dave visited Rancagua at Christmas 1958 and 1959
Reminiscence (MJA)
On the Aerolineas Argentinas flight from England in 1958, there was a MCC cricket team which was to tour Argentina and Chile. The weather was so bad in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro that having taken off from Recife in Northern Brazil, the plane had to land at a Brazilian airforce base (at Vitoria) in the jungle. We landed up playing cricket on the runway with the MCC team. Later we played cards with some team members.
I can remember the team captain Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie (who later became President of the MCC) wearing a shirt with a paper collar which was falling to pieces in the heat and humidity!
At the Chilean end, parents did not know where we were, since communications were almost non-existent. We arrived over 24 hours late.
The aircraft generally used was a four propeller Douglas DC6. After two days plus of flying the ringing of the engines could be heard in the ears for a few days after landing!
The photographs below are stamped "30 DIC. 1958" or 16 ENE.1959" (probably printing dates) and therefore refer to MJA/DGA first visit to Rancagua. DGA's passport gives the dates as 23 December 1958 entry and return on 21 Jan 1959.
Sports Mad!
Braden tennis Court | Painting a table Tennis Table
((Pete's missing head is due to a fault in the original photograph that even modern technology cannot correct!)
Volley ball
Mike and Dave taking on all contenders, in this case MCA and Phil Cherryman
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David Cherryman, in the foreground, appears to be trying to drink from the hosepipe! |
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El Tabo beach |
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Lin & Pete | Mike, MCA, Phil & Vern Cherryman, Dave | Lin skipping |
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Mike, Vern Cherryman, Dave and Pete |
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The family at the Braden Swimming pool |
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Machali (in the Andean foothills above Rancagua) |
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Getting ready to go back to Hazelwood School |
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Mike and Dave in Hazelwood School uniform (just before going to Santiago airport) in front of Humber Hawk car. The car was a Mark 1 or 2 built between 1945 and 1948 and was based on a pre-war Hillman (badge engineering since both Hillman & Humber were owned by Roots). The car had a 4 cylinder 2 litre engine with "superior" finish to its pre-war version. [The Hillman version appeared in Foyle's War on BBC TV] |
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