Old photographs

[bunn]

I have uploaded some old banquet photos here for those who may remember them.

The username and password are both taruithorn.

Obviously this isn't particularly to make them private, it's just I'd rather they didn't get picked up by search engines and displayed in random image searches.

Comments

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

To be young was very heaven, and all that.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Yes! I managed to avoid being in any of these photos! Woo-hoo!

Everyone looks scarily young - especially the boys. Men, I mean. The girls don't seem to have changed so much. I wonder if that means that we can all still pass for 21, or if we looked as if we were in our thirties even when we were students.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I have since found a small trove of Embarrassing LoA photos, but they were in a different folder when I was scanning so I haven't webbed them (yet)

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

But you're not going to. *waves hand in Jedi-like fashion, and speaks meaningfully.* You do not want to put those photos on the web.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I remember (some of) those! I even feature in a couple. (Maybe that is not so good...) I would place them around the 1992 & 1993 banquets; the ones I'm in are certainly 1993, 'cause I remember what some people were wearing.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Don't celebrate too much, I'm pretty sure you feature in one, even if it is as little as your shoulder.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

LoA

???

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting those. I recognise some of the faces - and, to echo the comments of others, "Doesn't everyone look young?" - but can someone put names to the others?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Ladyof... ?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Rather embarrassingly, no, not all of them!

I am fairly sure that they span at least 3 banquets* and a punt party.

*I'm pretty sure that the blacked up Nazgul are from 1991 but that most of the rest are from 1992-3. Somewhere or other, I have a suspicion there are more photos of earlier events, but who knows where they have got to.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I was trying to make it into something to do with the Arthurians!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

That would explain why I don't recognise more of them - my first banquet was in '94 (although I had met a few Taruithornites at the '93 Oxonmoot - kargicq and skordh for two, and possibly their partners for two more.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I just had a very quick look through my albums (in the 20 minutes I'm home for lunch) and fortunately I labelled the back of my photos. The blacked-up Nazguls are March 1992, from the Barad-dur banquet at New College. The Shire banquet was in March 1993, in Magdalen, which also accounts for quite a lot of your pictures.

We have far more pictures of Arthurian banquets than Taruithorn ones - including our fair share of embarrassing Bunn photos, I should add. I won't bother putting the albums away, in case anyone wants a nostalgia trip next weekend.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Was it? Oh well. It was a very long time ago, I know that much.

[tovaglia.livejournal.com]

Ah! good to see the 1992 pictures (I'd been told about this banquet about 50 times by various people* trying to explain Taruithorn banquets to me during my first year, and the pictures are even funnier than I'd imagined).

I do remember the names of almost everyone in the 1993 pictures, if that helps. And I also remember exactly where I bought all the components of my costume, except for the waistcoat which was kindly loaned to me by Na-Lon.

*although you wouldn't think some of them remembered that much of it themselves, looking at the state of them in those photos!

[chainmailmaiden]

I can put a name to most of the people - apart from some of the people in the ones from March '92. Which ones don't you recognise and I'll see if I know them.

[chainmailmaiden]

Now I feel very depressed at how thin I used to be :-(

[chainmailmaiden]

I think I met you at the '93 Oxonmoot too, but things are a bit blurry due to the amount of alcohol I drank!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

No 1: everyone
No 2: the lady in the orange
No 3: the wizard
No 4: the chap in the smoking-jacket
No 5: the lady on the left, in the floral blouse
No 7 top: the chap on the right
No 8 middle: the two in the centre
No 9: the Nazgul and the violinist
No 11: the beard
No 12 bottom: the reader
No 13 top: almost everyone
No 14: both
No 15: both (but is that you on the right???)
No 16: everyone apart from Creatrix
No 17 bottom: Robin Hood and the archer

Feel free to reply by email if you don't want to give away too many real names here; but OTOH, other people might want to be told, as well!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

But you still look great ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

You might be right. I'll dig out my '93 Oxonmoot photos sometime (and my '94 banquet photos). I might even scan a few!

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

And it was!

[parrot-knight.livejournal.com]

I was being told I looked middle-aged when I was in my teens.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well yes ...

My direct contact with the Arthurians has been:
- one celtic feast at Worcester, either '94, '95 or '96 (probably '95), the night before a Taruithorn banquet; I was struck by the large number of young ladies with long red hair
- the field, sorry, garden party a few years ago (like about four or five).

And leafing through Creatrix's old issues of "Ceridwen's Cauldron", being introduced to people at weddings, hearing tales of quests ...

[bunn.livejournal.com]

You are not alone. :-((( Woe are we.

Still, at least we WERE young and gorgeous!