Feb 16, 2021
13 min

A 1950s Winter

Bonfire night and Christmas had come and gone. It was the most miserable time of the year. It was winter. Try as we might to keep warm...

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TRAIN OF THOUGHT

Jan 1
6 min

Christmas week

My parents were very sociable. Every year, in the week before Christmas, Robinsons Brewery would deliver a barrel of their special mild...

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Dec 31, 2021
6 min

Christmas – final preparations!

One of my favourite Christmas activities was going to the different fairs, fetes and sales which every local organisation seemed to have...

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Dec 21, 2021
4 min

Christmas - the build up

Time travel is powered by the sense of smell. The scent of cloves instantly carries me back to Nana who is lifting the lid of a pale blue...

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Nov 7, 2021
5 min

Bonfire Night!

The excitement of a 1950s Bonfire Night

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Jul 30, 2021
9 min

Holidays

The start of the school holidays had that special Friday evening feeling. Routine vanished and who knew what the next day might bring....

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Jul 17, 2021
6 min

Moving into Top Class - and the dreaded 11+

Somehow, impossibly, my eldest grandson will be moving into his school's top class after the summer holidays. This sparked all the mixed...

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Jun 27, 2021
6 min

Real Trains

‘If you fell in there you’d be dead in two minutes’ said a voice very close to my ear. Instinctively I pulled back although I wasn't in...

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ABOUT ME

My childhood in the 1950s was filled with so much more freedom than my own grown-up children ever knew.

Just after my fourth birthday we moved to a newly built block of flats in, what was then, the quiet village of Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire. This blog is filled with memories of my family's time there during the 1950s.

I hope this blog brings back happy memories for those of my generation and offers younger readers a sense of a very different era.

A 1950s childhood