11/09/2025
A couple of weeks ago a special couple Brian and Georgina Glover and their family came back to remember their time at Warwick. A very special 50th year celebration at the Chaplaincy! Keep reading to discover their Warwick story.
' Brian and I decided we wanted to get married at the University rather than our home towns as my father had recently died, and most of our friends were at the University. So we got in touch with the Chaplaincy, which was preparing to move into its new home. A few chats later, we'd settled on the date of the 14th June - a few days after Brian finished his exams (Politics/Economics) and a week or so after mine (Biochemistry). We were living in Whitefields 2 at the time, and everyone mucked in to get a buffet together in Rootes.
Then disaster! The building works were delayed, so the formal procedure recognising the chapel was put back - and in those days it meant there couldn't be a legal ceremony , only the blessing of the wedding. So on May 28th we sneaked off campus for a civil ceremony at Coventry registry Office, and kept very quiet about it .
Saturday the 7th of June it snowed. We couldn't believe it. But the 14th was sunny, windy and fine - and I walked across from Whitefields to a lovely service . Lynette (Sequeira, as was, now Harper) was bridesmaid, Margaret White played the piano and all our friends were there. We took photos on the green ( John Knight being given the task of chief photographer).'
Fast forward fifty years and we still meet up annually, one of us organising the venue. So this year had to be Kenilworth with a visit to Warwick. We retook the wedding photo on the green and visited the old haunts. A wonderful welcome from the Chaplaincy was icing on our cake.
The group -Neil and Karen Maxwell; Jane and Jim Osler; Margaret and David White; Lynette and Brian Harper; Brian and Georgina Glover (John and Jane Knight unfortunately couldn't come )
