Montgomery To Open School
BLACKPOOL (England), Feb. 12. Field-Marshal Viscount Montmery, who was criticised for ,aying he was too busy to open a Blackpool school named after him, has changed his mind, and will attend an opening ceremony next October, the town’s education committee announced today. The school opened last September, but Lord Montgomery, a freeman of Blackpool, said he had no free days to visit it. even in 1959.
The' school’s 360 pupils were said to be bitterly disappointed, and one angry town councillor even suggested changing the name.
But the chairman of the education committee, Mr Jack Smythe, said today: “The Field-Marshal’s letter settles everything very amicably, and he can be assured of a very warm welcome when he arrives.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28820, 14 February 1959, Page 13
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