By
Andrew Ffrench
@OxMailAndyF
Business reporter covering Didcot and Wallingford. Call me on 01865 425425
Cliff Dunkley, pictured as City Information Officer with the Lord Mayor, Ann Spokes, in 1977
He was once proclaimed to be ‘Mr Know-It-All’ in a newspaper headline.
Rather unkind perhaps, but it was probably true of Cliff Dunkley as he was head of Oxford Information Centre.
He had to know the answers, or know where to find them, to all sorts of questions tourists and townsfolk asked.
How can we get hold of an old ambulance? What’s the gestation period for an elephant? When is Oxford’s egg feast? How can I trace a penfriend somewhere in Sussex?