Archive for July 11th, 2008

School trips to Spain

11 07 08

My friend Alan sent me this photo of one of our school trips to Spain. It must have been taken around Easter 1966. Alan is standing fourth from the right. I’m sort of in the middle, at the back. The boy in front of me is Juan José Badiola, a friend I made in Córdoba. [...]

A friend’s memories of the river

11 07 08

One of my oldest schoolfriends – another barrow boy and a fellow student of languages – sent me the following email after reading the post On the Beach, which includes the following photo:

“Your picture of Tower Beach is a good one. I can remember frequenting it as a small child. Stairs were lowered from the [...]