FOR five years from 1970, dancers headed for the village hall at Burley to enjoy the sounds of Orange Oblivion, a mobile disco run by three lads from the village.

The trio who ran the weekly dance were Richard Grant, Alan Rallings and Phillip Hutchings.

Although having full-time jobs, they travelled miles to gigs at weekends and sometimes on workday evenings, as far afield as Bridport and the outskirts of London.

But mostly they were active in the Bournemouth, New Forest and Southampton areas.

Richard, of Bisterne Close, Burley, emailed this photograph taken in the summer of 1973 when the boys took a few days off to drive around Scotland and the Lake District.

Richard, top right, helped with some of the building work but mainly dealt with paperwork, bookings and bills.

Phillip, who built the amplifiers and light boxes and wired up speakers, is top left.

Alan, bottom right, tackled anything demanding metalwork skills, such as constructing the frame for the decks, and also assisted putting the speaker cabinets together.

Although not a member of Orange Oblivion, Paul Holdsworth, bottom left, helped to unload the van on local disco nights. On this occasion he had borrowed one of his father's cars for the trip to Scotland.

Phillip was the first to give up the disco as he was working at Farnborough for the Ministry of Defence and simply could not attend most of the venues in this area, although he was responsible for attracting bookings in the north of Hampshire and Surrey areas.

Phillip now spends most of his time in America, working in electronics.

Richard worked for a firm of Bournemouth estate agents and later went solo.

Alan, who was working for an engineering firm in Ringwood, gave up the disco to get married and now lives in Devon.

Paul now runs his father's garage business alongside his brother, John.

Richard and one of his sons, Daniel, restarted Orange Oblivion in the 1990s but found that it was not so much fun and decided not to persevere.

Richard says: "What is amusing is that to this day people still mention Orange Oblivion in conversation because of its rather strange name."