Sports & Social Clubs
Prys Morgan: The other thing was the staff club in the evenings. Every fortnight or so there would be events - lectures or talks or discussions in the senior common room in the evening, and we had to arrange Christmas parties for the children of the staff, this kind of thing. And so you heard about the research and interests of geologists and celticists and so on in the staff club. And they arranged trips in buses, by the charabanc load to Bristol Old Vic or Stratford on Avon, to the Shakespeare Theatre. And so there was this active staff club life that has completely and utterly disappeared from Swansea but it was very very active in the 1950s and 60s.
Christine Ryland: One thing I do remember, in College House, the University College (as it was) used to organise a Christmas Party for the children of the staff. Now would that have just been academic staff - that I'm not absolutely sure you see. I can't really recall. That's beacuse the University was small enough to do that. There weren't that many departments and there were not that many people in them. And I remember taking my kids to a Christmas Party in College House more than once. Which we couldn't possibly do now.
Sam Blaxland: What kind of parties were they?
Christine Ryland: Ohhh there was food, and probably Father Christmas and presents for the little kids.
