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It has always been Red Slab to me - at least the rope looks OK !

I really like all three of your photos of this. The rope looks brand new! You do, however, appear to be wearing jeans whereas Ron is keeping up appearances in breeches and socks! Interestingly, you've stopped to belay whereas John Streetly is running it out in this photo on the first ascent: http://www.ukclimbing.com/images/dbpage.html?id=37643 I did the route some ten or fifteen years after your ascent and I'm sure I'd have belayed where you did. Didn't anyone want to follow Streetly? Did he just climb to the top of the crag?

Hell Jon, thanks for you comments. If I remember my history correctly Streetly could not get anyone to follow him so had no option but to carry on past the belay.
The rope does look new and I think it was a 300 foot nylon fullweight that we got for mountain rescue.
Well observed - I did wear jeans or similar in those days, causing Tony Bennet to refer to me as the climbing "Teddy Boy"

Tony Bennett - didn't he sing 'San Francisco'? Teddy Boy or not, that's a mean run-out. Well done!

Hello Mick - One of them did leave his heart in SFO, but this one was the leader of the RAF Mountain Rescue on Anglesey and a regular climbing partner of mine in the early sixties.