In 1965 and 1966, while in the 6th Form, I studied North America as the specialty for my “A” level GCE in Geography. I had no choice: our teacher, “Jessie” Whitehead, was passionate about North America, particularly Canada. She had never visited the USA or Canada, and would not until she retired a few years…
Category: Olde History
scribbles form my past, some of a very long time ago.
Street Traffic: Rag and Bone Men, Grinders and Onion Sellers
We lived on King Edwards Gardens, In Acton. It was a typical West London road, crammed with narrowly separated two storey houses; detached they called them. It was a quiet and decent neighborhood then. It is probably still very nice, but expensive, now. In the 1950’s and early 1960’s a parade of tradesmen, commercial folk,…