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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?
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Q. Your father, James, and mother, Lillie, were in the RAF, and as a boy you travelled extensively as they moved to different postings.
A. We lived around the UK and, for three years, lived in Singapore where I’d a dingo, an Australian dog, and a spider monkey called Suki. When I was nine, my dad was sent back to Bishopscourt in Northern Ireland and we lived in Newcastle. From there we moved to Wales.
Q. You’ve never spoken publicly about getting a juvenile caution. what happened?
A. I don’t know whether I should be quoted about this. okay, I got into a bit of trouble with the law in Wales. I was 14 and continually being provoked and bullied by young people on my way home from school about what was happening in Belfast. That led to a confrontation. I was foolish to respond. I received a juvenile caution and part of the condition of that was that I’d leave Wales and stay with my aunt in east Belfast. Later, working in law enforcement, I’d tell the story and joke: “So yo