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1956
To Nottingham University for the first time! Send luggage by
rail in advance in a big case. Told to take a tea servise to
entertain others in my (shared with David Claxton) room. Week 1
to folk dance society with accordion, and I found a girl friend!
Week 2 to Maths "staff meet freshers" evening, I was
invited to attend the electronics degree and build gadgets for Dr
Rose.
1957
Inter-Varsity Folk Festival was at Bristol, we danced
Ukrainian Cossak for our show. Owen died, I went back home for
the funeral, driven there by family friend Charles Davis of Acton
Tech later Brunel University. I inherited Owen’s motor bike,
BSA Bantam 125, only 2 gears worked. Holiday in Helensburgh,
Scotland, with sad mum & dad, I popped over to see Joy in
Edinburgh. Before Christmas I worked in Arthur's model shop under
London Bridge railway approach.
1958
My first ever professional accordion engagement was at Pyrford
Village Hall, Joy and I stayed at Peter Dashwood and Denis Salt's
house, we were ushered to bed with crash helmets on. Morris
holiday with Thames Valley on the Isle of Arran, for the Order of
Woodcraft Chilvalry. I was musician, so didn't have to help dig
latrines, everyone had camp duties. Summer spent in Nottingham. I
stayed at Kitty Kemp's (Joy's piano teacher) house on Hamilton
Road. All summer vacation I attended an apprentice course at
Ericssons Telephones, Beeston. First of all I learnt uniselectors
and Strowger telephone exchange design. Then I played with a
magnetic drum system. I used araldite to hold the ferrite on,
catastrophe, it ruined the read heads when you screwed them in
too far. Specialised in Logic for my third year at university.
1959
Got engaged!! Me: "Will you marry me?" She: "I'll
think about it." Graduation at the Albert Hall, upper second
class degree. Intake 60 students, no firsts, one 2-1, three 2-2s.
Summer holiday camping in Scotland with Clare and Alan, on two
motor bikes. One tent got eaten by cows while we were away
visiting friends of Alan. I started on a PhD to build a computer
to do logic, grant £340 from DSIR, kit funded by British Rail on
the assumption I'd build a computer to sort out signals/points
logic. I didn't. .
1960
Freds Folks first broadcast (first of many) from Nottingham
YMCA. MC Ken Clark of EFDSS. The band was Kevin Briggs (fiddle,
leader), me, Kath (drums), Stuart Woodhouse (bass) and Sam Brown
(guitar). Joy and I were married 30th July by Rev
George Sails at the Albert Hall, reception at Joy's place
Fairbourne. The honeymoon was by air in a Dakota from Derby
Airport (they had to move the cows off the field, the plane was
delayed because it didn't work, the place is now a Toyota
factory) to Jersey, where we stayed at a hotel run by friends of
Don & Mary, the Leonards. We rented a scooter for a week, and
bathed nude in secluded bays. We had a day trip over to Guernsey.
I was appointed “Tutorial assistant” on Maths department
staff.
1961
Summer camping in Glen Coe with Thames Valley Morris. Then an
EFDSS course at Barford with A L Lloyd etc, and Chris McDouall's
parents "Our son is coming to Nottingham, can you look after
him". We found that Joy was pregnant! We bought our first
car from Auntie Gwen, that was the end of our motor biking! And
we bought house 136 Julian Road, West Bridgford (found and
recommended by viola maker Wilfred Saunders who lived nearby), it
cost us £40 to knock the 2 downstairs rooms into one.
1962
Joy started driving lessons! My PhD thesis was handed in
early, before 1st May, viva on 13th June, When I paused at one
difficult question from the external "How would your machine
handle undecidable truth-values?" chairman Prof Rodney Hill
leapt in and said "If I was you I'd have a nervous
breakdown, what's the next question?"; I am eternally
grateful to him for that intervention! Angus arrived late, on 7th
May in hospital, I was there!. Our summer holiday was in Devon
visiting relatives, and showing Angus off! We went to Joe &
Yona's wedding at Oxford University, we weren't allowed to sleep
together!
1963
Joy started woodwork evening class, taught by Wilfred
Saunders. We went on a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads with
Don & Mary leaving Angus with my parents. Summer holiday was
in Scotland, taking Joy's mum with us.
1964
Rory born at home with midwife nurse Otterson, Eric gave a
computer course for WEA at Ericsson's with John Fyfe. Eric with
lorry to collect an unwanted computer from Boots - but it turned
out that it wasn't theirs! Holiday at Dorothy's farm near
Scarborough. David Wheeler started at the Albert Hall, the
university chaplaincy moved from Derby Road.
1965
Eric to London weekly for Atlas computer programming course.
Willersley Castle Methodist weekend. Eric to English Electric at
Kidsgrove to see new computer KDF9. BBC recording at Clifton with
Nadia Catthouse, David Renouf. We bought another vehicle, bye bye
Standard 8 TTT427, enter Ford Thames DTO322, with seats turned
round. Hamish born. Summer to Dundee and Ganton and Burnley (John
& Maureen, lived by the swimming pool).
1966
We ran a WEA course on Folk Music, a different topic every
week for a term. Holiday on the Isle of Wight with Clare &
Alan and family in a leaking house.
1967
Appointed to job of Cripps Computing boss. We all went with
Marion to Vienna, see elsewhere. Joy attended a German language
course. We moved to 31 Greenfield Street on 30th June, students
helped us unpack and wash dishes, Methssoc party two days after!
Angus started at Dunkirk School when we got back from Vienna,
Eric took him and lunched him each day. Eric to a conference in
Copenhagen.
1968
Eric attended meetings for the QMC planning committee,
discussing computing facilities required. The new Dunkirk Primary
School opened in February, including Angus. Angus's birthday
party in May was, as usual, in Clumber Park by our big tree (no
longer standing). In August Eric and Peter King gave a joint
paper to the IFIP conference in Edinburgh, entitled "Syntax
& Semantics". We had matching waistcoats and ties made
by Joy. The Russian suppression of the Prague Czech revolution
caused protests. August holiday was at Bookham. Summer included
family visits to the Natural History Museum, and by me to Addison
Wesley to discuss book publishing.
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