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Who decides what is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty?
Two days on the Gower Peninsula evaluating the landscape. How can you apply a score to hills, valleys, lakes and rivers? I had no idea, but that is what we had to do.
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Geography field trip: late nights, parties, cooked breakfasts, mystery tours – and lot’s of Welsh beer!
Swansea days 1 & 2: fast train from Paddington, numerous beers, late night parties, cooked breakfasts, Old Grey Whistle Test. Oh, and a bit of geography too.
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Four long days of temp work and evenings of study. And then I bought a ticket to Swansea…
Week ending 21st. March was very tiring, and my first experience of work through a temp agency. Long days of learning a new job and long evenings of study. But joy was on the horizon – a residential geography field trip to Swansea!
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Easter break – and that meant finding work! Got a temp job at Harrap Publishers
50 Years Ago – Unlike some of my fellow students my parents were unable to subsidise the student grant, so it was essential to find work outside of term time. Today I managed to get work at Harrap Publishers in Upper Holborn.
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Mike Absalom, The Listener & Infra-red Mapping
An obscure and bizarre celtic poet and musician, The Listener magazine and other journals, and lectures on energy flows in ecosystems and infra-red and satellite mapping. A day in the life of a student in 1976.
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Trouble @ Home… the start of events that would have a dramatic impact on my life
My LSE Diary on this day in 1976 records events that would be the beginning of one of the most difficult periods in my life.
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Gordon Giltrap free gig; GeogAss festivities… & lectures!
Friday, 20th. February 1976… a good day with a free lunchtime gig – Gordon Giltrap – and a GeogAss party in the evening. Some thought-provoking lectures too – that still have relevance today!
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Bandy Legs, Medicine Head & Loschian Models – a perfect day for a student
Pretty much a perfect day – for me as a student in London in 1976. Morning and afternoon lectures, lunchtime and evening gigs, plenty of beer – all for £2.91!
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Planning for a Country House on Skye!
Found a location for a substantial country house plot on the Isle of Skye. Sadly, I would not be moving in…
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Student Cash Card & Network Analysis
4th. Feb. 1976: Network Analysis in geography & a visit to the CBS Studios in Soho.
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King’s Hustings, Spatial Analysis, Fish & Chips
2nd. Feb. 1976: 19p for lunch and 28p for fish & chips! A day of lectures and hustings at King’s College.
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Spy photos, air pollution & Tomorrow’s World
29th. Jan. 1976: geography lectures and measuring air pollution around The Aldwych and Kingsway.
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The first commercial flight of a BA Concorde
21st. Jan. 1976: statistics, technical drawing, my dreams of flying – and the first flight of Concorde!
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Morning exam; evening gig – Kursaal Flyers & Eddie and the Hot Rods for 85p!
Fifty years ago: after a harrowing exam it was good to make it to the Marquee in London’s Soho for a gig – two bands for 85p!
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The Leyton Buzzards: Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees.
The Leyton Buzzards were a minor punk/new wave band but they did some good stuff – and they headlined a Rock Against Racism gig at the LSE.
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Two days in London and my physical & mental health improve immensely
A trip to London to meet up with friends, many of whom I had not seen since the late 1970s, ended up being a tonic for mind and soul.
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Vintage France – Avoriaz ski resort and the French Alps in 1978
Tourism Geography for the wealthy. This was a very pleasant location and the whole resort was well designed and laid out, with impressive multi-storey timber buildings everywhere.
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Vintage Switzerland – Geneva: city and modern housing developments in 1978
Geneva and a giant Swiss housing development in the style of Le Corbusier. And a picture of me at the top of Europe!
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Vintage France: Lyon, St.Etienne/Chambles & Injoux-Genissiat
1978: a bunch of geography students descend on France & Switzerland but this is no ordinary trip – we were visiting some pretty obscure places, ostensibly to learn… A trip in 4 parts.
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