Christmas Present for Charne

 

It’s Christmas time and back in the day that meant a spate of seasonal annuals went on sale – just right to fill the Christmas stockings.

One that started in the 1950s was Raymond Glendenning’s Book of Sport for Boys. Glendenning was a famous sports commentator – mainly on the wireless – at the time.

The annual included a school story written especially for it by  Frank Richards of Billy Bunter fame. Richards wrote under many pennames about many schools and for this annual he invented a Fourth Form at Felgate School.

In this story to try to get on the good side of their form master Mr Charne the boys decide to give him a cake as a present … with unintended consequences.

We saw another story from the annual here.

As published in Raymond Glendenning’s Book of Sport for Boys (Andrew Dakers: 1961)

 

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