It’s RAG Parade 1967 in this video sent in by American Studies and Drama graduate, Alan Martin (1969). Taken by his step-father, who was part of the BBC team that filmed the Coronation in 1953, the film captures some of the excitement and chaos of the day. Opening with Alan and his family and friends on campus, the film then moves on to the actual parade, showing the floats going down the street, before ending at the Lawns where some of the floats are then set alight.
We’ve also been sent in this photograph by Tom Hutchinson (Geography 1964) of an even earlier RAG Parade.
This month sees us welcome students back to campus, but even as we look ahead to the new academic year these memories of RAG have got us feeling in nostalgic mood. In a few weeks time campus will be abuzz again as Welcome Week kicks off and the next cohort of our students arrives and gets used to life on campus.
We would love you to send in your photographs and memories of campus buzzing with life. Whether it’s Welcome Week, RAG, or some other campus celebration, send them to alumni@hull.ac.uk and share them with the alumni community.
University of Hull Alumni Association 
Watching this video of the 1967 Rag Parade reminds me of the float that I helped build for the 1969 Rag Week under the supervision of a Tony Hills . It was Oliver’s Kitchen from the film Oliver and was built under the heading of HUSO and for the children in Newlands Home.
In 1970 I was person in charge of building the float again for Newlands Homes and that year it was Snow White but not Seven Dwarfs but about twenty.
Both floats took about a week each to build and five minutes to dismantle.
JOHN M. O’DONNELL
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Thanks for the comment John – any chance you have any photographs of these floats, they sound great!
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I do of Oliver I will see if I can find them
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That would be brilliant! Please do send in to alumni@hull.ac.uk
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