lag-orabilia 3

Here's a fine piece of lagorabilia dug out by Alan Whittle. Does anybody else remember Johnny Carr? I seem to recall that he was pretty good. Alan met his wife-to-be Felicity Radlett at this dance. He says, ' I can remember trying to escape from gardening on Friday afternoon to get ready for the big night out.' Gardening???

The diary of Alan Whittle aged 19 and 3/4. What long forgotten secrets are within? If I had to guess I'd say a longish list of young ladies' addresses! Click on 'Calendar 1967-68' to find out.

You may noticed a mention in my, 'Incoherent Memories', of Wilf and Martha who ran the canteen at St. Matthias during the late sixties and early seventies. Just to prove some of my memories are reliable Alan Whittle remembers a kindness.......

The hand-written lyrics to an end-of term song performed in the hall by Suzy Kovaks, Ann Goodwin and others. It mentions many of the, then, college staff. My thanks to Ann for the transcript. The tune was Bobby Shaftoe. Lyrics transcribed below.

At the end of one summer term Dave Moore myself and Laurie Watson had a flat on Fishponds Road and were totally skint. The time when you were looking for a holiday job!! We went to the canteen and Wilfred gave us some left overs from the leavers' do the previous night. I had some scrumpy, Laurie and Dave had curry powder, Earl Gray Tea and condensed milk. The menu was as follows Aperitif Scrumpy Wine Scrumpy Main Course Frankfurter Curry White Rice with Dry bread rolls Pudding Don't Remember Tea/Coffee /Sweet Earl Gray and condensed milk. Licqueurs Scrumpy Don't remember anything else!! As you probably already know scrumpy is good for this kind of meal as it anaesthetises the tastebuds.

Academic board is meeting, Brains are dull and thoughts are fleeting, Roger Adcock heads the meeting, Off they go again. Mr Prosser's gory film shows, Showing ways of stopping blood flows Students fainting rows by rows, Don't let him die! David Farrar's stunning, Gets the girls all running, We're beguiled, he drives us wild, it's not his lectures we'll be shunning. Sefton Davies is our darling, he's so handsome and so charming, His fatal charm is so alarming, Long live Illinois. Nigel Dodd is so dramatic, Alec Yirrell's acrobatic, But they're both enthusiastic, What a lovely pair. Tony Clarke is captiviating, Derek Weeks is emigrating, We will be commiserating When he flies away. Peter Wills is very Partial to his sherry But drink his punch before your lunch and you will end up merry. We belong to St Matthias, apathetic chaste and pious, Ad Majoram Dei Gloriam, Let's see what we can do. (nudge nudge, wink wink, s?? no wrong) (naughty thoughts) This line ' we will be commiserating' was changed for reasons of sensitivity from "Renee'll find it agitating " The last line was changed to "colleagues friends and all" but was changed back for reasons of continuity with the next song, 'My ding a ling'

A section of my college scarf, I can remember the day I bought it from a shop on Park Street. I wore it everywhere all through the winter of 1969. My wife found it, badly moth eaten and covered in cobwebs, but the scarf was O.K.

Rugby Club Tie (courtesy of Alan Whittle). (Right click to zoom in.)

A programme from a concert I went to at the Colston Hall in Bristol on December 2nd. 1969. The popular beat combo Ashton, Gardner and Dyke were the supporting act .