Richard Cotes James, Ruth Sawtell, Nicholas Collis and Peter Isaac Richard Cotes-James, Nicholas Collis, Peter Isaac, Gail Isaac, Rodney Sawtell and David Wilson
Itinerant Oldie Peter Isaac and his wife Gail, both fresh from New Zealand, via France, found that the past half century or so melted away when they encountered a posse of contemporary Oldies at the Rose & Crown near Chilton Cantelo.
They had anticipated a “quiet” lunch with familiar old lags Peter Liesching, Edward Lutley, and Clive Lewis-Hopkins. But when they entered the tap room they also found themselves among a detachment of others from the Class of circa 1962 including Ruth Sawtell, Nick Collis, Dave Wilson and Richard Cotes-James.
Peter Liesching, Edward Lutley and Diana Lutley Richard Cotes-James, David Wilson and Nicholas Collis listening to a speech by Edward Lutley
“I recognised everyone immediately,” recalled Isaac. “We just took up where we had left off — I felt like a time traveller which I suppose, in I sense, I was. It was a fantastic piece of logistics by Clive and Edward.”
Peter Isaac