Obituary - Lu Wanklyn 1946 - 2019
Lu Wanklyn (Handcock) 1946 - 2019. Photo taken at Nick Duke's wedding in 1975 Lu and I were exact contemporaries, and I saw a lot of her in our teenage years at the many dances and parties that took place. We must have partnered each other in Scottish reels almost more times that anyone and she was unfailingly fun and a joy to be with. In our day - at least in our part of Hampshire - there was no 'pairing off' and we all went around as friends (or as Annie Ommanney put it, 'rushed around in a heap', often in the back of one of our farm vans filled with bales of straw. Indeed one of my abiding memories was being stuck in a snowdrift in one such van with Lu, coming back from a dance, and having to wait until daylight to be rescued! No mobile phones and no Scott-like heroics from me either. Later, Lu disappeared to Sardinia to cook for Princess Alexandra and I saw her less regularly, but in 1967 I do well remember her being driven out to Florence in Tim Boycott...