Teach your children well? : 1960s-1970s : vegetable-free adolescence, Camberley

“How often do you wash your face?” asked the doctor.
“Like how?” I responded, uncertain about what he was enquiring.
“You know, with soap and water,” he clarified.
“Er, never,” I replied truthfully.
“Why not?” he demanded.
“Because nobody ever told me I needed to... [continues]
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Remember the days of the old schoolyard : 1963-1969 : Cordwalles Junior School, Camberley

“I don’t wanna go,” I was shouting as I struggled to hang on to the car door for dear life. I was being kidnapped and forced into a vehicle outside my home that was wanting to carry me away … to my first day at infant school. My mother was trying her gentlest to push inside the family car her five-year... [continues]
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If you can’t stand accounts, get out of the kitchen : 1966 : Whites of Camberley payroll & the pink fridge

“Grant, why haven’t you written anything? What did you do yesterday evening?”

Our teacher had walked along the row of desks in the classroom and noticed that I had yet to start writing. I had been staring at a blank page in my exercise book, trying to imagine a way to pen two sentences and... [continues]
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Blinded by the light : 1967 : Architectural Drawing Services, 27b High Street, Camberley

It was a mystery. Questions were asked. Answers were not forthcoming. Nobody could understand what had happened. Evidently something must have occurred. But what? And how? The professionals were stumped. I could not help. I had no answers either. Had I been in an accident? No. Had I hit my head? No. Had my face... [continues]
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