H P Pollard

Mr Pollard lived in Crowtrees Park, Rawdon (off the Rawdon traffic lights) … he married a Rawdon girl and had 4 children (Keith and Joy both were at AGS before us). In Alan Dobson’s “history” he is credited with a lot of musical entertainments in the earlier days. In our time, apart from maths, he managed the stage lighting and founded the Radio Club.

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• I recall a remark of great significance … when teaching us about binary (base 2) arithmetic, he noted that that was what computers used; at that time, computers existed only in research labs (university and military). He went on to remark that “one day, there will be one in every home”. This was about 1959-60 … in the 1980’s I was working in the computer industry, and even then most people in the industry could not imagine that coming to happen. Now in 2022 there’s a computer in every phone. [Bernard]
• He and his family (and many of his wife’s relatives) were members of Cragg Baptist church, Rawdon, where my father was minister; he occasionally played the organ, but in the winter months when to save heat we met in the schoolroom, he regularly played the piano for services. He was very fond of Beethoven piano sonatas before the services. [Bernard]
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