growing up in the 1950s Quotes

“The coach started to move off. I felt frightened. All these weeks, looking forward to it, and now I didn’t want to go. Please, Mum, let me go home. She was running alongside, waving her hanky and crying . . .”

“He’d nagged his mother for weeks to let him go on the school exchange, swapping his home in the backstreets of a northern town for a posh house in London.”