[jennyjuniper]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

You must be the same age as me Jenny, because I too remember the Queen's Coronation. I vividly remember a man pasting up a colour 'Coronation' poster directly onto the outside wall of our crumbling little three up two down pit-owned terraced house, and loved my coronation mug (long gone unfortunately).

Oh - and I remember the street party (one of many) which was held to celebrate the Coronation.

Happy Days - Piss Pot Poor but happy.

Too true Kirk. I know many people say we look back at the past through rose tinted specs, but I do remember the past, as you say 'Piss poor, but happy'.
It's said that young people today have more freedom than we did. Yet I never felt stifled or restricted. Me and my brothers felt safe roaming the moors and another advantage of those days was that our peers were usually in the same boat as ourselves...piss poor but happy