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Linacre College

1962—1977 at St Aldate’s

Ar cle from The Oxford Mail, November 1963

“Although Linacre didn’t have the splendid

“My many recollec ons range from the casual architecture and wonderful grounds of the

to the sublime: the sound of the entrance older colleges, it had facili es that may of

doors swinging open; Peter Holloway’s voice them might envy, including a very large music

coming from the ground floor administra ve room that not only had a grand piano but also

office; the smell of polish and cigare e smoke a table tennis table. Gunilla and I o en spent

in the Common Room and the kindly presence me there with friends from the Netherlands

there of Arvind Kenkare; and the wonderful either playing and singing around the grand

carillon from Tom Tower at 9.00 pm which was piano or playing table tennis.”

the signal to leave the library and wander

downstairs for a drink.”

“The address was probably one of the most

curious for an Oxford college: ‘by the Police

Sta on’. However, I was not put off . . . . One

morning as I was reading the newspapers, a

police officer asked me whether I could go next

door for a ‘line-up’ to help with the iden fica on

of a possible criminal. This I did with some The Pond at ‘Old Linacre’

anxiety, just in case something went wrong!”

Old Linacre Dining Hall: ”I found much of

interest in my (at least) weekly visits to dine in

a dreadfully noisy echoing hall. My wife was

always made very welcome at special events.”

Events in College ranged from official to personal.

A 1966 wedding reception at St Aldate’s is shown

on the far right. On the immediate right, Lady

Hicks and Sir John Hicks, founding Senior

Members of the College, attend the wedding in Students and Bam (right) at Old Linacre, with

Dorchester of a croquet lawn in the background

Linacre student. In

February 1973, a

reception was held

at the College for Sir

John and Lady Hicks

to celebrate the

announcement that

he was the co-

winner of the 1972

Nobel Prize in

Economics. The

occasion was

marked by a brief

notice in The Oxford

Times.