I was born in 1951, I grew up in a Greater London suburban town called Eastcote, which was made possible by the revolution in travel that was the London underground. Eastcote Underground station was opened in 1906, one of the vital commuter lines to feed London’s ever growing need for workers, aided not least by […]
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Talking ’bout my generation
I reckon I was born into what may have been the most blessed (fortunate) generation in the history of Britain. I am not saying it was easy, we were dirt poor and I spent more time with cardboard in my shoes than soles and we had marrow bone soup every Tuesday, the butcher saving my […]