How appropriate that the cafe I am typing this entry in should be playing The Animals’ ‘We Gotta Get Out Of This Place’ [surely Eric Burdon’s finest moment – a perfect fusion of the Mississippi and the Tyne]. This was the repeated plea of my wife as we drove up to the mobile home holiday camp …
Monthly Archive: October 2013
Oct 17
Random notes by way of an update…
From the sublime to the ridiculous: from reflections upon fly fishing to scrutinising examination marks from Finsbury Technical College. I need to go back to the London Metropolitan Archives to see if I missed any relevant records (a confession in that I spent too long having lunch in Exmouth Market with Colin Seymour-Ure; but then I …
Oct 11
Fairey, fly fishing, and the Test…
Last Tuesday [8 October] I was again at Pittleworth Manor talking to Sir Richard Fairey’s daughter and grand-daughter, and selecting photographs for the website, which is still under construction but now in an embryonic form. As well as photographs ranging across CRF’s life I handled a number of artefacts, including the skates for attachment to …
Adrian Smith, Emeritus Professor of Modern History, University of Southampton
