1962 RAG

Submitted by Peter Dearing, electronics apprentice 1958-1963, who also contributed the inane remarks

Most of the photos below are of the 1962 Rag and were the ones submitted to the Malvern Gazette and Worcester Evening News.

Rehearsers for Rag Show 1962

Rag Show final curtain plus guys with chains!

Don't we look smart

Time to clean this town up!

Woolworths! mind if I pop in here for a quarter pound of dolly mixture?

A man's got do what a man's got to do.
 

Meanwhile these posh gentlemen are busy mugging motorists

"I clocked you doing at least a hundred coming down there"

How much did we con them out of today, says the ever watchful George

The good ship Belle sets off on a steamboat shuffle:
ding-dong

The Trakkers settle down in the stern of the boat play a few old sea shanties

'Luck be a Lady Tonight' 1963 Rag Show
 

The camera never lies, just doesn't tell all the truth. What was this stunt about?

Most of the press cuttings below are from the 1963 Rag

Very politically incorrect!
Malvern Gazette September 6th 1963
 
 
 

This would now be called "Extreme Sports"
Malvern Gazette September 6th 1963

Yard of Ale Contest, or as it would now be called,
The 0.9144 metres of Ale Contest
Malvern Gazette September 6th 1963

George is still watchful
Malvern Gazette September 6th 1963
 

The Rag Committee meet the Lady Mayor and High Sheriff of Worcester
- fortunately the latter had left his six-shooters at home
Worcester Evening News August 24th 1963

£485 plus purchase tax -Wow!
Malvern Gazette September 6th 1963

Shiver me timbers!
Malvern Gazette September 6th 1963
 
 

In between Rags, some people studied (or so the rumour goes). Some even got prizes!
Malvern Gazette Friday April 13th 1962