Congratulations to Cambridge’s most famous road sweeper Allan Brigham, who has been awarded an honorary Masters degree from Cambridge University.
I had a call from the BBC World Service last week wanting to contact him after reading about him in one of my previous posts. Allan was given the honour for his unique historical tours of Cambridge – and he is open about not being a big fan of the university because of its inclusivity.
I am joining Allan on his latest tour tomorrow around Cambridge city centre. His passion for the city and its inhabitants is really infectious and gives one a great sense of pride in living so close to such a fabulous world famous city. His anecdotes are so humorous and interesting, I could listen to him for hours.
I know Allan through Geoff and would love to go on one of his tours of Cambridge….
Sally, why not email him and see if you can both come tomorrow evening too.
nice idea Ellee but I have other commitments tomorrow evening and they are not in Cambridge.
Always another time I hope 🙂
After I congratulated Allan, this was his reply to me:
“The degree ceremony on Saturday was about as stressful as getting married…Especially the media attention which I hadn’t expected ( a german TV crew followed me around for two days!). But my best memory was of my mother at the University garden party in The Botanic Gardens afterwards where we were anonymous guests amongst 8,000 staff and their families. Getting my mum here had been difficult as she is a bit confused with alzheimers, but I can still see her sitting in the sunshine on the lawns in the beautiful gardens and suddenly responding to the music, tapping her feet away to the brass band and then getting up and jigging around. The whole thing was worth it for that.”
Excellent news. I remember your earlier post about him. This is well deserved.