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In 1958 Dad left the RAF, after 24 years, and took Mum and us kids back to the home he grew up in.

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2 January 2021

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McChurch  I`m very impressed with the fondness you keep for your childhood world.  I can`t look back at North London with much more than dismay.  

It must be a hell of a lot worse now.

 Bentonbag  When he'd visited home Phil said 

"You had an idyllic childhood.  You do know that don't you?"  

A home with parents, grandparents and siblings; good neighbours who were more than just 'people next door'.   

The place my father and grandparents grew up so we were well known (and thought of?).  My great-grandparents moved there to run Talley Road railway station in the 1890s (or earlier).  

The time when most of the inhabitants had been there for generations so knew each others families (and foibles).   

Big garden, safe for a toddler, and beyond that green countryside with only one busy road, safe for explorings.  

And a tiny, village school where I made friends for life, and Master was relatively free from interference and bureaucracy.  

I was incredibly lucky.