FUNNY how things can come back to you with such clarity after so long, isn't it?
I was talking to a friend recently who was born in 1958 by which time I was already 15 and had left school.
He asked if I could recall any thing from that that year.
Immediately I got an image of a bunch of Teddy boys taking it in tuns to knock the bejasus out of a fairground punchball while Little Richard's Baby Face was blaring out of the speakers on the Speedway behind us.
One memory begets another and I didn't stop talking for ages. It was those early days at the fair in South Shields that led me to become a waltzer man on a travelling fair.
John Reynolds, Eldon.
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