Miss Barker had just taken over as Headmistress when I started at Buckingham Road in 1959 and Mrs Goldsmith was there then as well. I left there in 1964 and the next time I met Mrs Goldsmith was in 1974 in the downstairs private bar of The Ferry in Shoreham when I was on my stag night pub crawl...
You've started me now!
Me and my best mate rollerskated from shoreham to Portslade one summer holiday to visit his Nan who lived near the top of Foredown Drive, getting up there was a bit of a struggle especially when we found the old biddy wasn't home! I know we could/should have taken our...
I was born in 1953, here's a few things that kids today would struggle to understand,
Rationing from WW2 didn't end officially until 1954, some things had been de-rationalised before but meat/bacon and sweets were the last, this was 9 years after the bloody war had ended!
We only had one TV...
Just put this on the Infinite Jukebox thread and remembered how much I liked it, so here it is. Tinged with some sad memories as it was a good mates favourite song as well, and was played at his funeral, so this one's for you Pete, miss you mate.