"Priest" on a motorcycle update!

Just a quick line to correct a long standing rumour!! In the 1970 school magazine the person in the 'Priest on a motorcycle' photo is NOT a priest.

I and Ian Hennesy designed the mag layout, with Ian doing most of the artwork and me doing the rest of the artwork and all the photography. I told Ian about my idea of the spoof pic and we decided that it was a great ruse. I took the 'motorcyclist' photo at the junction of Newhouse Crescent and Horseshoe Lane in Garston near Watford. Every morning whilst I waited for the bus at said junction, this old boy would pass me on his equally old Velocette motorcycle. So I took the photo and put it in the magazine without comment. However we did put about the rumour that there was a scoop pic of one of the priests on a motorbike in the mag.

Sorry to 'blow the gaff' but I thought it time the truth was known. Its a fair cop ... it was me (and Ian H.) Does anybody know what happened to Ian? (Keith Malone)


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