Jean Collen's Blog, page 2

Protected: 1978 to 1980. Booths return to the UK. Letters to Freda and Len Davies in Knysna and one or two to me!

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Protected: 1981 to 1985 Letters from Anne and Webster and several of mine to them.

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Protected: Letters 1974 – 1977 Booths move to Somerset West and then to the UK. Letters from Anne and Webster to us and mainly to Freda.

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Protected: Letters 1970 to 1973 to Mabel Fenney (Perkin), Freda Boyce, and me.

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Protected: 1960 – June 1967 Printed matter and private letters, mainly from WEBSTER BOOTH.

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THOMAS ROUND.

I first heard of Thomas Round when he came out to Johannesburg in 1964 with a full English company of ‘Lilac Time’ although I probably had heard some of his recordings when Webster Booth presented his Gilbert and Sullivan programme on the SABC in 1962.

WEBSTER BOOTH’S RELATIONSHIP WITH PETER DAWSON.

I am including this derogatory article which makes fools of Anne and Webster's friendship with Peter Dawson. I always thought Webster was delighted to have been introduced to HMV by Peter Dawson!

Protected: THE ZIEGLER FOLLIES – BY AUSTRALIAN, PETER BURGIS.

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BUYING A ROLLS ROYCE -1 November, 1954

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/... Less than two years later in July 1956 they left the United Kingdom on the Pretoria Castle bound for Cape Town. They settled in Johannesburg, South Africa and stayed there until 1978. When they were first in South Africa they drove a Ford Zephyr and a Hillman Minx convertible. Jean Collen 22 January 2024.

Extract from Teenage Diaries 7/8 December 1961 – 62 years ago!

7 December 2023 Introduction. The year is nearly at an end. I am still recovering from endocarditis having spent nearly three weeks in hospital in September/October receiving multiple antibiotic intravenous drips into very small stubborn veins. Thankfully, I seem to have recovered from this infection without being left with a heart murmur but I don’t […]