I came from Manchester, but I was born in Salford. When we arrived on Langley it was nice and peaceful and it was countryside. It was lovely. The house was nice and warm and our lawn was long. We cut the lawn singing ‘here we go again’. I remember my parents shouting me in the […]

The Darnhill Adventure
Moving to Darnhill was, for me, a great adventure. It was January, 1963, and I was eight years old. We – my mum, dad and two older brothers – were moving from a cramped and run-down three-up, three down, privately-rented terrace house in Manchester to the relative luxury of a brand new home high in […]