From Nigel
“All this talk about the Isle of Wight festival and hippies, except the old plod, is getting me all nostalgic. In 1969 my good friend the late Roger Courtney, nice guy, photographer, folk musician and club MC and I hatched a plan to make a few bob from the holiday makers that once flooded into Southsea for the summer season by me painting a full size hippie cartoon and taking it down the sea front to entice holiday makers to stick their bonce through the ‘ead ‘ole. It worked, at 50p a time we made quite a few bob, but little old ladies who were too short to get their ‘ead in the ‘ole had to be lifted up, I wondered where that rupture came from!
The photo shows me testing out the ‘ead ‘ole in my back garden in St. Edwards Road.”
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