Dark at tea-time, life at this time of year would be indoors, focused on the black and white 405 line television set. Saturdays afternoons would be dominated by sport, Grandstand on the BBC. This is how it always started. I'd always be most...

Each school day would start with Assembly. In the Juniors, this would take place in the ground floor hall. The eight classes of the Juniors (years one through four, two classes in each year) would gather to hear a piece of classical music played over...

Autumns started earlier in England than they do in Poland; to put it another way, summers would end sooner (and in any case were cooler and wetter). School would start at the beginning of September and all thoughts of summer would soon fade amid the...