John Evans-Pughe in College of St. Nicholas, Chislehurst - late March, 1939

from Letters of the Evans-Pughe family:

TO: The Rev. J and Mrs. Evans-Pughe, Tovil Vicarage, Maidstone, Kent

FROM: John Evans-Pughe, College of St. Nicholas, Chislehurst, Kent

POSTMARK: 29 March 1939

Dear Mummy and Daddy

Thank you very much for the letters.  It will be quite safe to send Tom’s cake, if you put a label on the parcel with “Perishable” written on it….

…On Friday night (Boy’s service) the organ motor didn’t work properly.  When the chant was being played over sometimes it played just the treble and alto, other times Bass …   more >>

cite as

Letters of the Evans-Pughe family. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1442251381446 accessed: 29 March, 2024 (Contributed by Christine Evans-Pughe)

location of experience: College of St. Nicholas, Chislehurst

Listeners

John Evans-Pughe
Chorister, electronics engineer, National Service
1925-

Experience Information

Date/Time late March, 1939
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Notes

John Evans-Pughe (1925 to 1996) was a chorister (with his younger brother Tom) at the choir of the College of St Nicholas, Chislehurst, under Sir Sydney Nicholson and later a music scholar at Kings School Canterbury, Kent. The St Nicholas choir was recorded for many BBC broadcasts and for Columbia Records. A Columbia recording in 1939 featuring John Evans-Pughe and Michael Lumb as treble soloists singing O Lovely Peace (Handel) and Brother James’ Air (arr. Jacob) was a best seller. John did National Service in Egypt and Greece, and then studied science at Trinity College, Dublin. He went on to became an electronics engineer for Marconi Space and Defence Systems, continuing with music in his spare time.


Originally submitted by Liz Ford on Mon, 14 Sep 2015 18:23:01 +0100
Approved on Wed, 14 Oct 2015 11:34:31 +0100