NEWHAVEN DEEP SEA ANGLERS
Photo taken at the 1960 Dinner/Dance.
By William Stovell
Brian Urry published a copy of the menu for that occasion and here is a photo taken there. The lady holding the Waller bream cup is Mrs May Pottinger and the smug little devil preparing to receive it is me. Just behind my head is my Dad. You can tell it's a special occasion as Dad has a glass of Mackeson in front of him, normally he only had a Mackie at Christmas.
May Pottinger was a doughty angler, who fished with her husband Tony, on their boat "My May". Dad once said that she could catch fish from a freshly drawn bucket of water.
These were great and enjoyable get-togethers, made all the more fascinating by watching Dad have a couple of dances with the St. Dunstans nurses who, with some of the residents, were a delight to watch on the dance floor. (Dad didn't do too bad either.)