and to give a flavour of the time, baez & donovan on a vietnam march

and though blurred unmistakeably hendrix

a band in an underground club - on the back it says carl dangher *

and out on the streets, sid rules

a comical shot

more probably from the '70's chris s on his allotment in hastings with pat, graham webb & chris b

and chris b on his roof in docklands

it's just occured to me that i ought to include my pen friends from the time. as a lonely 15 year old, one way i sought to make friends especially of the female variety was to write to pen friends. this pretty girl was riitta from finland. *

and this was sabine from mauritius. unfortunately with pen friends i took ages to write my letters and they seemed to answer instantly so then i had another letter queueing up. i ended up feeling the pressure and i'm sorry to say it was probably me who stopped writing. it didn't help that i had at least three pen friends, the last being... *