EVIDENTLY those old-time golfers were proper swingers -- going off the goings-on at the annual smoking concert hot-pot at the clubhouse in 1949.
For the programme for the event in February nearly 52 years ago at Blackburn Golf Club -- sent to Looking Back by reader Mr David Stevens who found a copy among this late step-father's belongings -- shows that the savoury fare was washed down with no fewer than six toasts.
But perhaps the tenor of the occasion is better conveyed by the Opening Chorus that members and guests were required to sing as the evening's artistes, We Three -- Graham Adams, Phyllis Pepper and John Hughes -- entertained.
The first verse went:
For the merriest fellows are we --
Tra la la la la!
As we ply o'er the emerald sea --
Tra la la la la!
With loving and laughing and quipping
and quaffing we're happy as can be --
Tra la!
With loving and laughing, etc. --
Tra la la -- ad lib!
Sounds a riot, what?
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