ANNUAL CHOIR VISIT TO LONDON

            Each year, for the last 5 years, a party of St. Michael's Choir have been taken down to London, during the Summer Term, to sing at a Eucharist at St. Stephen's, Rochester Row.  The service, an annual Thanksgiving Eucharist of the Melanesian Mission, has always been a success, though, naturally, some years have been better than others, and the Choir always look forward to going to sing at this Service.

            The first year only part of the Choir went down, in the Commer van and a coach, and, being the first time, everything was exciting. On that particular occasion the Choir started off from Heacham at 5 a.m., so as to be in London in time for breakfast, and returned to Heacham the same night, after seeing the Royal Tournament, arriving at Heacham at 2 a.m. the following morning.

            The second year the Choir went down in the first of the school's two double-deckers, and great competition took place as to who would sit downstairs and who would sit upstairs. This time, too, we started early in the morning and returned in the small hours of the following morning.

            The third year was a little easier, the Choir made the double journey in two days, going down one morning and spending the late afternoon and evening sight seeing and singing the Service and returning to Heacham the following day, arriving about 10 p.m.

            The fourth year we again did the journey in  one day, but the first double-decker was near the end of its life as a school transporting vehicle and we did the journey at a more leisurely pace.

            Unfortunately, this year the Choir is not going down to St. Stephen's to  sing, as the Service coincides during Heacham's "Blood Relations Week" and, as a great deal of singing has to be done in Heacham that week, it is felt that it will be a little too much for the members to also go to London.

M.H. CATTERICK, Va.