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Andrew Hignell

Andrew Hignell

Historian

Jul 17, 2026

10:12
and
10:12
also another man called Paddy Armstrong, who was in charge of squash.
10:16
All of those people who played a key role in Hugh's formative years were still teaching at Blundells.
10:26
And, of course, Nick Swarbrick, who was senior master.
10:31
So for me, having first known Hugh in 1979 when I was cutting my teeth as a Glamorgan scorer and Hugh was playing his first Glamorgan second XI games, I think it was against Gloucestershire at Bristol was the first time we'd met.
10:51
And it was remarkable, you know, suddenly here are these people I'd heard Hugh talk about.
10:58
They were just names, and now they were colleagues.

19 MINS LATER

StephenHOST
29:32
OK let's bring Andrew back in then and Just talk us through some of the things that Hugh achieved as a schoolboy cricketer.

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