Childhood stories

The Making of a Man

It was around 1955, the era of the “Teddy Boy”, Oh what a time that was. Life was exciting and after the war, it was a time when life began to have some colour again....

My friend and I were about 8 years old, we used to dash about the village on our bikes with few cares in the world....

We were full of the energy and optimism of youth as we set out that day as we set off on our DofE expedition....

We'd been for a walk through some woodland, down and around a valley, as we made our way back up to the car park we came upon a beautiful pool beneath a waterfall....

In the 50's school days were pretty hard. We were not asked to do something, we were told to do it or suffer the outcome of our disobedience....

Told all my friends at school Michael Jackson lived at the bottom of my garden with bubbles in my shed....