Family life

Your storiesSnapshot: If only we'd had the blue spade ... We went to Scarborough every year for our week's summer holiday. This went on year after year … probably only two or three times really, but such is childhood memory. We lived in South Yorkshire, about 80 miles away, and travelled by public transport. The excitement the night before departure gave me insomnia. The opening of the money boxes, the counting out of the pennies, threepenny bits and sixpences – a ritual. We ...

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