The stage hands and art master 'Piggy' Purchas preparing for the 1960 production of Peter Ustinov's Romanoff and Juliet.

According to Derek White, who sent in the picture, it shows "'Spongy' Boyne doing one of his whistlers" and Derek himself posing against tree - possibly the only Languages student, he reckons, to enter the inner sanctum of the stage crew made up of Sciences for several years.

Julius Caesar, 1959 She Stoops to Conquer, 1962 St Joan, 1963 One Way Pendulum, 1964 The Tempest, 1965

Le Malade Imaginaire, 1967 Billy Budd, 1968 A Man for all Seasons, 1969 Oedipus Rex, 1972

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