As a child, I do remember being on stage a few times in choirs, singing solo and as a ventriloquist, but the solo performances were at small venues. When I spent a year with London City Mission, I remember singing at Trafalgar Square and Westminster Central Hall as part of a choir of the young voluntary evangelists. Here are the two songs that we sung back in the summer of 1983 (These are more recent videos – not us – YouTube came too late for me 😄)
In church circles, I preached at various churches throughout Ireland, and in our little Mission Hall at Covent Garden in London. And I gave a speech at my daughter’s wedding. I can’t remember much else. I suppose I gave a few more speeches on various occasions.
I don’t have any footage, but our choir at Trafalgar Square might have looked like this, except it was London City Mission back in 1982. Happy days. I hardly ever find any reference to London City Mission as it was back then on the web. Sad.
And I remember doing some-open air preaching on Tower Hill alongside the Tower of London. All sorts of people used to speak there back then. It was a little bit like Hyde Park Corner. Again, I can’t find much reference to any of that on the web. I remember listening to pacifist Methodist, Donald Soper there around that time. He wasn’t an evangelical, but he was an excellent speaker and he handled the hecklers much better than any of us did. He mentioned that he used to speak there during the war. I thought to myself. “how could someone go back as far as World War 2?”. Well, in 1982, the war was 40 years ago. And now, my time in London is over 40 years ago. So perhaps someone is reading this and wondering how come this guy goes all the way back to 1982 😄.
So let’s close with Cliff’s hit from Christmas 1982. Someone once told me that I looked like Cliff Richard 😄.
Hibernia Gospel 