From an email received 5 June 2023.

I may be wrong, but my memory of the “Northgate” c1972 is that it was on the corner of Northgate and the High Street. I was in my late teens at the time and the Cathedral had put on an all night event for us youth. Probably, it was the wrong thing to do to have a drink in the “Northgate” prior to going to the cathedral, but we did.

It was a great event, well organised and it attracted a large number of people. One thing sticks in my mind, however, a somewhat harassed verger giving out over the loudspeaker system the request that we should not smoke in the cathedral but that there was plenty of grass outside.

Roger Knight.

(Now Rector of Cuxton & Halling. So it must have done me some good.)