Piping in the haggis in 1959
DESPITE its distance from Scotland, Burns Night has always been celebrated in Oxford.
In this picture, taken in 1959, Mr EW Lacey, chef de cuisine, is seen presenting the haggis to Mr W Forty, right, president of the Oxford Caledonian Society.
On his right are Lady Townsend, a prominent Oxford councillor, and Colonel John Thomson, who became Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire in 1983.
The man playing the bagpipes was Ian Macdonald, a director of Nielsen’s, the market research company at Headington.
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