We would spend the whole day roaming round the park, greasing the slide with candle wax to make it slipperier, making camps in the bushes, climbing trees, fishing for tiddlers the wrong side of the pond railings.

We would collect empty bottles for the deposits and go door to door asking for old newspapers to sell back to the paper mill.

Saturday morning cinema was amndatory and we were always reading.

Sunday lunchtime radio - Life With The Lyons, Ray's A Laugh, Round The Horne, The Billy Cotton Bandshow.....