I hoped you would do something like this! As an adult I've found Patrick's attitude a bit unconvincing, though probably that's because the adults I knew who had gone through it were mostly OK with the reforms once they had got used to them - though my father, born 1941, certainly cared about the musical effects, which often were dire.
Our local parish priest in the early 1970s did say the Mass in Latin for several years - he did 'parish surveys' at the church door as evidence that the congregation wanted it that way, but I think mostly that was the new Mass in Latin rather than the Tridentine rite, though that did happen on occasion. He was eventually pushed to change to English, probably around 1975.
Re: Patrick's views on the Vatican II reforms?
Our local parish priest in the early 1970s did say the Mass in Latin for several years - he did 'parish surveys' at the church door as evidence that the congregation wanted it that way, but I think mostly that was the new Mass in Latin rather than the Tridentine rite, though that did happen on occasion. He was eventually pushed to change to English, probably around 1975.