This was a time when men didn't wear earrings, carry umbrellas or push prams. Women didn't have tattoos or show their underwear. In fact if their slip showed below their skirt somebody would whisper in their ear"Charlie's dead...” Born in Northampton as part of the "baby boom”, Carole tells of her childhood in the forties and fifties. She was brought up in a world that was comfortable in its own skin, and confident in its ability to recover from the war years. Though set in Northampton, Carole's story could be set in any British industrial town proud of its heritage and traditions. In the early years she lived in a tiny terraced house lacking in basic amenities, with her mum, dad and Nana Kate. Kate, her 'good-time' grandmother, posed many problems for her mum, but Carole grew up in a happy home where she wanted for nothing. Money was short and luxuries few, but there was the warm knowledge that people were all your friends, and children could run free wherever they liked as...

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