North East Education News

Issue 75

Consequently, on the anniversary of the battle I recently went to the annual Collingwood memorial service at the Cathedral which was attended by descendants of Admiral Lord Collingwood, representatives from the city of Newcastle including the Lord Mayor and High Sheriff as well as serving and former personnel from the Navy. Members of the RGS’s Navy CCF section also took part and then went on to another commemoration later that day at the Collingwood monument at Tynemouth. Collingwood had his home at Morpeth, in Northumberland, and it is said that when he was there on leave he loved to walk over the hills with his dog called Bounce. Bounce has been described as an almost perfect naval dog except for its dislike of gunfire and it has been written that Collingwood used to sing Bounce to sleep with Shakespearean sonnets adapted for dogs (I wonder whether he first learnt those…