In the pub at Oldham we thought the barmaid had given the wrong change! Then got fed for nothing after we were invited to eat at the wedding reception in the next room. Got so drunk the stewards had to help me through the half turnstile.
I was there, bloody awesome. I stayed in a B&B with Bob Ellams and his son from Glossop. I had met the wonderful old Communist and retired engineer shortly before at an Open University summer school in Manchester. We had to introduce the person sitting next to us to everyone in the room. When I...