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You found out from the radio, and you had to listen for it.
School closings were read out in a long alphabetical list, so a child sat beside the…
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Everybody got one from everybody, and that rule is what the whole exercise turns on.
The requirement in most classrooms was that if you brought cards you…
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Standing at the side of a road to be picked up was an ordinary way to get somewhere, and that is the hardest thing about it to…
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A thirteen-year-old was left in charge of a house and everybody in it.
Parents went out for the evening and handed over responsibility for younger children, the building and…
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Asking a girl out in 1965 meant asking her father first.
The invitation did not go to the girl. It went to the household - a boy came to…
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Memorising was treated as the foundation rather than as a shortcut.
Facts, tables, spellings and passages went into the head first, on the explicit assumption that understanding came afterwards…