University Rag Days

A Memory of Reading.

Rag Days , who knows why they were called rag days I believe Reading Uni is now rated as one of the top 100 unis in the world , as far as i can ascertain the rag day parades have gone now mores the pity they were fun days and brightened bleak times. My last memories of them where based on where i worked at the time which was the 1960/70s i worked at Wolfe and Hollanders who were Furnishers in broad street when we heard the parade approaching we used to scoot up the stairs to the old abandoned rooms overlooking Broad Street and bomb the students with whatever we could find half pennys bits of fabric and carpet etc great fun we used to think of it as revenge for the flour bombs etc that we endured prior to working in such a propicious position we used to have bets on whether we could land coinson the parade decorated trucks ,i also remember the rag mags were a good read even if they were a bit anarchistic did any one collect them ? .


Added 01 January 2014

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