The Old Bordenian Association

This continues Barry Gilbert’s story of life in the Police Force.  For the first part, see http://www.oldbordenians.co.uk/down-memory-lane/a-police-odyssey-january-1957-august-1992/.

I returned from Anguilla in December 1970 and the ‘winter of discontent’  of the Heath government was in full swing. There were three day working weeks for some and we suffered numerous power cuts. Keeping warm was a problem and having spent three months in the balmy climate of the West Indies it took a while to get accustomed to the cold of the English winter.

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The April 1974 Geography Field Trip to St Jean-de-Luz in south west France included a visit to this geological marvel, the wave-cut platform below the fortified harbour wall at nearby Socoa.

However, I  took this picture just a few weeks ago when I revisited the site during a weekend break to the Basque region. Unlike my waistline, it doesn’t appear to have changed very much. But the intervening 34 years, in geological terms, doesn’t really count, does it?

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