…this ol’ Jurassic is not one of those who subscribe to labelling a childhood growing up in the slums of Glasgow as ‘the bad old days’… they were simply ‘the old days’… post-War Britain held the majority of its population in working-class city environments, all over the country… we were aware of only two ‘classes’… people with money, living in a stratosphere completely foreign and unreachable to the rest of us… and us… families existing on or around the bread line… the old saw refers to a person from our side of the tracks as ‘balanced—a chip on each shoulder’… I disagree with that tag 100%… the majority of fine people I grew up among were a grand mixture of native Scots, immigrant Irish (our lot swam across the Irish Channel about three generations prior to my birth), Poles, and a large community of Pakistanis… little…
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