Les can still cut it

Les Featherstone was deputy head gardener at Peterborough Cathedral when the original picture (right) was taken in 1991.

He started working there in 1987 and when I caught up with him for the Reunions book photo in 2016 he had been promoted to head gardener. He said, “I’ve been there 30 years. The job hasn’t changed much but it is more mechanised and quicker to cut the grass now.”

His wife works in the cathedral shop and they live near Bourne in Lincolnshire.