ABSTRACT
We lived in a tiny little village with a dead end, you had to turn right to get to the village, and it had the river at the bottom, [. . .] so quite a few holidaymakers and things . . . And then there was just a little village school which only had about 50 children altogether, maybe. Which is actually closed down now. So we just went there, and I think probably all the time I was at school, you know, it was quite a sort of idyllic little set-up in a way, sort of playing with kids in the village, and we had a lot of freedom from when we were really, really young, and then out on bikes and things when we were eight for half the day, and stuff like that. And then I just, I don’t know, I presume I took the 11-plus and I obviously failed, I’m sure I must have taken the 11-plus at that time, so I just went on to my local high school. Which was just two miles away. So once again, that was sort of very local.
