There were cupcakes and milk tarts, scones and dainty sandwiches. There was roast lamb and malva pudding, and Sally Andrew and Des Lindberg among other fine participants. In the end, there were happy tears in every eye.
The reps of the Fifties and Sixties drove great big sedans and knew every hotel worth staying in on every long road. They would have stayed in a hotel like this one. Only it wasn’t anything like this in their era.