Archive for the 'old photos' Category
Hiatus
There is still a good half term to go in the school year, and the summer will be a very short one (only five and a half weeks, which is a right swizz). The last half term is eight weeks plus, which is two weeks longer than you can really stand. I’ve lost a lot [...]
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Tags: beach, beach holidays, british summer, Nostalgia
Beside the seaside
In 1963, about half of all seaside holiday makers would have arrived at their destination by train. Less than ten years later, it was just 30%, partly (no doubt) because of the self-fulfilling prophecy of branch line closures brought about by the then-Labour government’s modernisation philosophy.
I was around 6 months old when my family went [...]
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Tags: beach holidays, holidays, Nostalgia, seaside, vacations
Sunday Driver, Yeah
The remarkable thing, I think, is that we had a car at all in those days. With six kids, six school uniforms, six pairs of shoes every few months, and only one income, life was hard. We didn’t own our house, it was rented off the printing works where my dad worked. Somehow there was [...]
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Tags: 60s, autobiography, Family, Nostalgia
