"The day was dull and overcast. Park Street leading up to the University still had World War ll bomb scars - some buidings had been demolished and others had wooden props. There was a good crowd and security if at all was simple. As I had a chunky camera and flashgun the single police officer outside the door waved me to a spot next to a couple of local Press photographers - there was nothing like the baying hordes of paparazzi you have now... I think but cannot recall totally, I think they even wore suits and ties."

"I was beginning a post-graduate year studying Education - and it gave me a bit more time to concentrate on photography - so much so that the darkroom where I worked, often all night, became known as 'the Department of Photography'. At one stage of the course we were introduced to the basics of cinematography and could experiment with a clockwork wound Bolex 16mm camera. A roll of film was our limit -just two and a half minutes. But it was the experience and inspiration from two professors followed by enormous support from Sir Philip that set me on course for a lifetime of extraordinary adventures..."

"And though at the time I did not know it one of the students lined up inside and presented to Her Majesty was Roger Tutt [Economics] representing the new Churchill Hall a student's residence. Later he became at the age of 21, the business manager for the 1960-61 Trans-Continental expedition of which I was a founder with Mark Howell." [see University of Bristol expedition 1960- 61 - on the menu