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that memory… Today’s memory comes from Ron Colman (B13) MEMORIES On the 11th October 1972, I was driving along Wellington Road towards Baker Street - the time was 11.30 p.m. We all know how one's eyes sometimes play up and you begin to see things that are not there when you actually get close up.I thought, on this particular night, that that was happening to me! I saw two people skipping merrily along, holding hands and doing their thing to a figure of eight. I closed up to satisfy myself positively that it was no illusion and that it really was happening. And yes, it really was happening; there were two people actually skipping along in the manner I have described. When hearing and seeing my approach, they hailed me and upon stopping, they both jumped in. "Cine Centre please driver", the young man said in an accented way and off I drove to their destination - which at the time was in Panton Street, Haymarket. On route, the couple were extremely charming, most polite, very talkative, appeared interested in everything around them including myself, asked about my family, where I lived and then simply chatted about this and that. From amongst my fares that night, unquestionably, they were the most memorable as well as being the most human. Not because of that, I asked for an autograph, which they were more than willing to give. That autograph is attached to this article. On Friday 7th April 1998, some 25 years 5 months and 6 days later, the lovely and talented young lady of the 'dancing duo of St. Johns Wood' died. Her name was Linda McCartney...........
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