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VENTURES NEW #10

...hotos and newspaper cuttings from his sixties tours around Europe’s race tracks.  This appealed to the male visitors while the ladies enjoyed the ever increasing collection of Victorian costumes around the house along with an antique sewing machine and a musical box which played lovely tunes when wound up. Victorian Costumes in The Ballroom Apart from the bank holidays though we didn’t get huge amounts of visitors and my parents started to think of other things they could do.  They had heard about mediaeval banquets being run at a place called Coombe Abbey near Coventry and went along one night to see what it was all about.  It was a banquet serving...

LET THE BANQUET COMMENCE! #11

...g and the newspapers and radio stations turned up to take lots of photos of us all in various poses and record interviews with the cast.  It was a lovely, warm Autumn day and many of the photos were taken outdoors (see header picture).  I remember it turning out to be quite a party, even though it started at 9.30 in the morning; as the day wore on and the organist started playing a few of the songs we would be doing at the banquets, everyone started dancing and singing along – it was 4pm by the time it finished! Banquets Press Launch 1973 - Here are the serving wenches waiting upon the 'King' - That's me sitting to the right of 'King' Barry! And so...

SKOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER! #13

..., I saw a newspaper board telling everyone about a streaker that had run through the town the day before – what was this?  A man running naked for the fun of it?  On further investigation I found that this was the latest craze from America – but why anyone would want to do it in our cold country was beyond me!  I was not an academic by any means and hated my schooldays.  I was constantly being teased for being too thin, too quiet, for wearing large clothes (my mum always bought the uniform 2 sizes too big so it would last) and for living in a stately home. (This was from the teachers too!)   My concentration was awful and I tended to daydream a lot, t...

Skools out for summer! #12

..., I saw a newspaper board telling everyone about a streaker that had run through the town the day before – what was this? A man running naked for the fun of it? On further investigation I found that this was the latest craze from America – but why anyone would want to do it in our cold country was beyond me! I was not an academic by any means and hated my schooldays. I was constantly being teased for being too thin, too quiet, for wearing large clothes (my mum always bought the uniform 2 sizes too big so it would last) and for living in a stately home. (This was from the teachers too!) My concentration was awful and I tended to daydream a lot, then I wouldn...

Ventures New! #10

...hotos and newspaper cuttings from his sixties tours around Europe’s race tracks. This appealed to the male visitors while the ladies enjoyed the ever increasing collection of Victorian costumes around the house along with an antique sewing machine and a musical box which played lovely tunes when wound up. Apart from the bank holidays though we didn’t get huge amounts of visitors and my parents started to think of other things they could do. They had heard about mediaeval banquets being run at a place called Coombe Abbey near Coventry and went along one night to see what it was all about. It was a banquet serving four or five courses with mediaeval entertain...

Skools out for summer #13

..., I saw a newspaper board telling everyone about a streaker that had run through the town the day before – what was this? A man running naked for the fun of it? On further investigation I found that this was the latest craze from America – but why anyone would want to do it in our cold country was beyond me!   Streaking comes to Britain!   Incidentally Uttoxeter is famous for quite a few reasons, one being that Samuel Johnson, the famous diarist, used to help his father on a market stall in the town centre each week.  Another is that Mary Howitt, the writer of the famous poem 'The Spider and the Fly', used to live in the town and has a road na...