It's extraordinary how stories in Eye have a way of jogging Friends' memories from way back. Our recent trip into Woodbrooke's past visitors such as Gandhi and Jomo Kenyatta has had former Woodbrooke students scurrying to their lofts for old pictures and diary entries.

Juliet Batten, of Stockport, tells us that her aunt Isabel Evens was at the college in Spring 1932 when Kenyatta was there. They appeared in a photo together which was included in Isabel's life story, A journey in living, which Juliet edited. In her book Isabel refers to Kenyatta as 'another rare bird in our midst for a term'.