Your comments.
Peter Bobbin (50-51): (the rest of the weekend was a "slow
build up to that tremendous banquet. Over 400 OCs plus wives and
guests: over 800 in all and all organised by Mim, Archie Smith’s very
energetic wife. Well done Mim. With all these people, there is little
wonder that we could not hear the string quartet (meant to be
background musak?!!!). Cannon Bob was magnificent and just what was
required after that young lad with half of the Fort Knox gold on his
sleeves had ‘gone on a bit’. Bob Evans clearly has a vocation, but he
most certainly could have had another! I could listen to him for hours."
Steve
Budd(71-73): "We had a choir and I know we booked a string quartet -
the latter I do not recollect hearing or seeing at all, the former were
only heard when they sang Rule Brtitannia and the room joined in,
otherwise the overwhelming ambient sound was 800 OCs and partners
talking. It is perhaps best described as akin to being in the centre of
a beehive when the bees are particularly communicative".
Tim
Clerc (69-71): "Amongst many memorable moments two really stand out for
me, the Hullabaloo after dinner, a fitting rejoinder to the first Sea
Lord and the very moving words of Canon Bob Evans most telling being
his reference to the “two years” that left such a lasting mark. Thanks
to all and not forgetting PBK for the port."
Mike Sanders (58-61): "The Dinner was exceptional,though the First Sea Lord did go on a bit. Canon Bob Evans made my weekend."
Peter
Syddall (59-62): "Then later came the incredibly well organised dinner
for nearly 800 of us. That was a real credit particularly to I think
Mim, the Dinner Secretary. An evening to remember for the rest of our
lives."
Peter Webb (57-59): "...the 150th anniversary meal was excellent."
