Bill Howes (BGS 1945-51)
William Pannell Howes – the Pannell was his mother’s maiden surname – died on 29th May 2013 at the age of 78.I first met Bill when I was in the first or second form at Boston Grammar School. He was a couple of years ahead of me and a group of us were playing near the Hussey Tower on what became the school’s playing fields. Bill joined us (it wasn’t an auspicious meeting), we had an argument, probably about cricket and who was out and he approached me in what I would describe as a menacing fashion. I grabbed his fingers and bent them back hard. He yelled out with pain and I legged it home to Pilgrim Road and avoided him for several weeks.
Later we made it up and I became part of his gang, who all lived in that area of the town, near the back of the Boston United ground, a team we supported together for years.
