Memory

  • Where’s the TV?

    The fragments of memories from childhood can rarely be dated accurately. There’s one exception though: June 2nd, 1953, the day of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. I was nearly seven and a half years old, and in my second year at Rudston Infants School in Liverpool. I must have been at school a year when the…

  • Meeting Mr Hozey

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    I think we must have been the first guests at the Coronation Day party, but others arrived during the course of the next hour or so to take their places gathered round the TV set in the lounge. There are very few of them I can remember from the day, but there seemed to be…