rkovars wrote: ↑Wed Feb 01, 2023 4:19 pm
My teacher at the time was a professional photographer who photographed celebrities during summer breaks and kept his chops up by photographing us in class
Blimey! He couldn’t do that now. All photos of children must be taken on school devices and deleted after uploading to the server. And if you have a child whose parents have refused photo permission, you have to boot them off the group shot.
Anyway, I was looking through some old photos at the weekend and was rather surprised to see myself wearing a watch. This was in Cornwall, summer 1965, and I was seven years old, nearly eight. My parents had promised me a watch for the previous Christmas on condition that I had learned to tell the time – quite an incentive! I believe it was a small Timex, what they called a boy’s watch at the time.
Health & Safety…I don’t suppose they filled out a risk assessment about the cliff edge!
It was my dad‘s pint, honest! Kids weren’t allowed to go into pubs in those days, so we had to sit outside in the beer garden. Socks with sandals and top button of polo shirt done up – Ye gods, how uncool is that?
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