{"id":8403,"date":"2020-01-01T10:25:14","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T09:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=8403"},"modified":"2020-01-01T10:25:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T09:25:14","slug":"pram-race-with-willie-rushton-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/pram-race-with-willie-rushton-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Pram Race with Willie Rushton: 1978"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in a previous blog about rag events, here is one of only two surviving recordings of a Pram Race. This is from 1978 when comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willie_Rushton\">Willie Rushton<\/a> <span class=\"st\">(1937 \u2013 1996)<\/span> took part. It started at Southside in Princes Gardens and seemed to work its way down Exhibition Road to South Kensington. STOIC&#8217;s Lunch Break reporter Colin Palmer (a former Felix editor) followed along and interviewed as the procession progressed.<\/p>\n<p>I have also discovered a video of a Raft Race taking part in Hyde Park. These also seemed to start from Princes Gardens, but more of that soon.<\/p>\n<p>First though, here is that 1978 Pram Race, and did YOU take part?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Pram Race with Willie Rushton: 1978\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lEPyJULgf4A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw 1st January 2020<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we feature one of only two surviving recordings of a Pram Race that used to happen each year. This one, from 1978, had comedian Willie Rushton being pulled at high speed down Exhibition Road towards South Kensington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18461,53,80,82],"tags":[183,212,975,89],"class_list":["post-8403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-history","category-events","category-people","category-student-life","tag-princes-gardens","tag-stoic","tag-student-union","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8403"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8403\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}