Bloody 'ell PFR. You went to grammar school, university and lived in London? Middle class if ever I saw it... :-D I dropped out of 6th form college after the first term because I had a girlfriend and we wanted to marry. I did win a place on a day release economics degree at Wigan tech (miner's collage) but that stopped after the first term because there were only 3 of us doing it. I did pretty well at my day release ONC in business studies even though I spent most of my day release afternoons in the pub next door :-)

Funny you mention the Polish kid - I was that kid in 1957 Salford. No funny accent but a strange name was enough to get you beat up in those days. I was grateful when the first black kid started at our school in about 1960 and took the heat off me.