Lives in Cricket No 44 - LCH Palairet

Chapter two Early life and Repton Although born in the seaside town of Grange-over-Sands on May 27, 1870, by the time Lionel was four he was living at Cattistock Lodge and he spent his early childhood education at The Reverend Cornish School in Clevedon, as a full time boarder only coming home for holidays. The town of Clevedon is on the north Somerset coast; it is famous for having a pier (opened in 1869). The seafront has ornamental gardens, a Victorian bandstand and plenty of other visitor attractions, the beach is a mixture of pebbled beaches and low rocky cliffs, with the old harbour at the western edge of the town at the mouth of the river Yeo. For Lionel as a young child this must have been a pleasant way to spend his spare time with friends from the school; it also had a lasting effect on his love for the seaside and what living by the coast had to offer. In later life he would retire to Dawlish a coastal town on the south coast of Devon; the sea air of Clevedon clearly left its mark with Lionel. Clevedon in 1900; this is what the town would have looked like when Lionel attended his preparatory school 10