LP Hartley, in The Go Between said 'The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.' The key word here is differently. In the nineteen-fifties, the time when most of these events took place, things were certainly different. Not worse and not better, simply different. We should not to look back at that world through rose-coloured glasses, nor yet though darkly tinted shades.

This book is an attempt to take a detailed and honest look back at a world now gone. Make of it what you will.