Henry Whitehead had died, of course, but his school was still there. There was still the regular topology seminar that was held. Ioan James was the Reader in Topology and so I saw a fair amount of him. And there were other younger people and there were research students. Graham Higman was the Professor of Algebra – I got on quite well with him. I don't think there was anybody else who… it wasn’t… there was nobody else really worked very specially in my area, I would say. The topologists were the nearest, there was nobody doing algebraic geometry. I got… made some contact with some of the analysts and the pure physics, but I think my own mathematical contacts were outside Oxford rather than inside Oxford. I mean, in the world at large I had many more contacts than I had in Oxford, except as time developed we had our seminar, we had our research students… I got research students and younger people came along, but originally I was on my own.

So actually looking back in retrospect, you know, you move around, you'd think you'd want to go to a place where the subject is well represented, it might have seemed to be a rash move. But there weren't so many posts in those days and you know, the idea of being too choosy about whether you went because who was working there, you know, wasn't really relevant I think.