The Album

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It would be nice to think that every promotion compiled a year book at the end of every year containing a selectionn of photos and perhaps recollections. Perhaps they do.

It was certainly true ofA Comenians. I had a wealth of photos, both my own and André's. Both of us had spent the year snapping and there was an arrangement that year for students getting hold of each other's photos. So I had a fairly representative collection.

My vague recollection is that Karen gave me some money to finance the operation, though I may be mistaken and where she would have got it I have no idea.

Anyway, when I got home I bought a plastic covered pseudo-leather album, like the one in the picture above, and started filling it up with photos (and commentary as best I remember). I was pleased with the result in the end and dispatched it to the College on the assumption that it would end up on a library shelf or coffee table.

When I turned up in 2008 for the fortieth anniversary I made cursory enquiries about it but nobody had ever heard of it. I made slightly deeper enquiries this year but to no avail.

My memories of its transition to the College and if it ever reached there are hazy. I assume I must have posted it. It's not impossible it's in the archives somewhere in a box and that might explain why, forty or fifty years later, it rang no bells. On the other hand it may never have arrived at the College. Time will tell as I think there may be a sort of a search under way for it at the moment.

I was very put out ten years ago to find it had disappeared, and as I say, it may never have reached the College. But I am a little re-heartened this year to have got round to blogging my photos (and some others) here. The blog contains a lot of what would have been in the album and a lot more besides.

Perhaps the album will turn up some day. Stranger things have happened and it was not a figment of my imagination despite my memory of certain details being a bit hazy.