Cathedral Boys’ Choir 1958

The
Cathedral Boys’ Choir in 1958. Or perhaps 1957. I’m second from the top next to
the pulpit and next down from me is David McPhail. Hamish ‘Gubby’ Guthrie is sixth
down from the left. (Reproduced without permission from David McPhail’s
auto-biography, The years before my Death).

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