{"id":4021,"date":"2012-11-16T15:49:14","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2023-09-26T11:54:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T10:54:28","slug":"new-to-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/new-to-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"New to the Blog?"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are new to the blog or perhaps arrived via the Alumni web page, you might have missed some previous gems. If you go back further to earlier entries you will find some memories of Imperial College captured on videotape. One such recording is the only interview we have with Victor Mooney (Died on December 27th 2012 aged 89), college catering manager from 1953 to 1985.<\/p>\n

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Southside Royal opening taking place in the Upper Refectory,\u00a0 Southside<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He was a major figure in college life, especially with the student’s phrase “Going for a Mooney”, which meant going to the refectory for a meal of some kind. Do you remember the Upper and Lower Refectories in Southside? How about WAITRESS service in part of the Refectory in Sherfield? And also a time when the JCR eatery was still called the “Buttery”.<\/p>\n

I have now managed to clean up the quality of the recording which was made in November 1979,\u00a0 just prior to us going into full colour. Here’s Victor Mooney, in the College TV Studio, talking to STOIC regular presenter Dave Ghani.<\/p>\n