From the archive
50 YEARS AGO Pink Floyd and Free at the university
AN EXPENSIVE array of musicians were lined up at Loughborough university for the most spectacular dance of the term.
Set to appear on the bill were Pink Floyd, Emperor Rosko, the 11-piece soul band the Delroy Williams Show and Free.
The Echo reported that Pink Floyd were working on an entirely new 360 degrees stereo system.
Bass guitarist Roger Waters explained: “We want to throw away the old format of the pop show standing on a square stage at one end of a rectangular room. Our idea is to put the sound all around the audience with ourselves in the middle.”
The Echo described Free as a three-piece blues group based in London, who recorded on the Island label.
Nightmare came true for driver Chris
ONLY half an hour after a 26-year-old dairy supervisor had collected his car from a garage where £250 work had been carried out on it, he skidded at Zouch and ran off the road into a riverside bungalow.
But although major damage was caused to the bungalow and the car badly battered, Chris Swarbrooke of Tennyson Road was relieved.
“Every night I had dreamed that I was going to be in a smash,” he told the Echo.
Snow was falling heavily as Mr Swarbrooke along the road in his 1956 Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire. The car was approaching a right hand bend at only a slow speed when without warning the back end broke away.
The vehicle, weighing two toms, drifted diagonally across the road and rammed into the side of a wooden weekend bungalow owned by Mrs Ada Potter, Moorfield Place, Shepshed
The Clicker disco at the Saracen’s
THE Saracen’s Head discotheque, Swan Street was due to open, with disc jockeys Bill Poole, Mike Brite, Jim Coulson and Ges Sweeney.
It was being run by Bill Poole’s father and was to be called The Clicker.
Cash and carry plans for Theatre Royal
PLANS to change the use of the old Theatre Royal to a cash and carry warehouse operation from Packe Street was turned down.
The Theatre Royal which had closed many years previously was owned by Universal Car Co. Ltd and had been used for some time as a furniture warehouse.
25 YEARS AGO Cross country team second in county
A HIND LEYS cross country team picked up second place in the Leicestershire Schools League.
The boys team of Steve Aylward, Paul Large, Jason Lavine, Gareth Fairbrother, Greg Fardell and Lee Brooks, who were in Years 10 and 11 at the college, took part in six league races against eight other schools.
City striker visits Woodbrook Vale
LEICESTER City star striker Iwan Roberts paid a special visit to Woodbrook Vale High School, Loughborough and found plenty of soccer skills on show.
A dinner lady at the school had organised a dinner time football tournament and it was finals day. Among those who received a trophy from Iwan was 13-year-old Shaun Watson.