New experiences

Experience in New Communities - All of this Cordon Blue entertainment was new to me and the village but my wife took to it like gin to tonic. In some ways it meant we were different and added to the way many of the locals felt towards me with my university degree. It seems ludicrous that we were able to live comfortably on a salary- I was paid monthly - of £635 a year and dreamed of getting the £1000 a year when my training was over. That £1000 a year came just as our first child, a girl, was born in the cottage hospital and triggered a flood of visitors. Our friend over the back had a girl about the same time and baby sitters were needed when the mining officials (we were both working at the same mine) got together for a dinner dance about ten miles away. Not a hop, a proper dinner dance with long elegant dresses and black tie, waltzes, quicksteps, tangos and the odd eightsome reel. But this was the early sixties and the mines were closing.

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