In January 1957 Dr. Ewan Page was appointed as the Director of the Durham University Computing Laboratory at King’s College Newcastle and in November of the same year the Computing Laboratory took possession of its first computer, a Ferranti Pegasus, and began the twin tasks of providing a computing service, and undertaking computing-related teaching and research. For the next thirty-two years the work of the Laboratory was summarised in an annual Director’s Report. These reports provide an un-paralled series of glimpses into the growth of computing at Newcastle University – the struggle to keep up with the ever-growing demand for computing facilities, the provision of a growing variety of academic and service courses, and the achievements of an ever-expanding research programme. Dr (later Professor) Page was responsible for all the reports up until that for the academic year 1978–1979, after which Professor Harry Whitfield undertook this responsibility. All are both very informative and readable — and often entertaining. (The first twenty reports were used as the source of “Secrets 1973” for the scriptwriters of “Oh What a Lovely Lab”, a single-performance musical extravaganza created to help celebrate the Computing laboratory’s Thirtieth Anniversary.)